User:PeterSampson/Sand-Box

My experimentation page

Sand-Box for when I have to make tricksy edits.

This could be a possible solution for the new Edit Menu page if that is we can make the cascading menu images act as rollover links to the commands (cf. Bill's reference section on the front page). Beyond my technology skills though...

• Gale 29Jan13: Yes I considered an image map but I don't think it's acceptable to rely on images alone for this - VI users often set their screen readers to ignore images.

The Edit menu provides the standard edit commands (Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete) plus many other commands specific to editing audio.
There are many commands available from this menu so it has been arranged as a series of cascading sub-menus.

Undo

Undoes the last editing operation you performed to your project. You can undo as many times as you want, all the way back to when you opened the window. To undo many operations, select History... from the View Menu. The name of this menu item will change to reflect what will be undone; if you just recorded some audio, the menu item name will be Undo Record.

Redo

Redoes any editing operations that were just undone. After you perform a new editing operation, you can no longer redo the operations that were undone.

Remove Audio or Labels

Commands in this cascading menu remove audio by cutting, deleting, silencing or trimming (which leaves only the selection behind).

Clip Boundaries

The items in this cascading menu create or operate on separate clips in the audio track.

Copy, Paste and Duplicate

These commands copy, duplicate and paste audio and labels.

Labeled Audio

The following Edit commands can be applied to labeled audio:

Labeled Audio commands apply standard Edit Menu commands to the audio of one or more regions that are labeled. To use, drag a selection in the Label Track that fully includes (or extends beyond) each region label whose audio is to be affected. Labeled Audio Split can also mark an audio split at each point label where the selection touches (or extends beyond) the point label.

Select

The commands in this cascading menu select ranges of audio.

Find Zero Crossings

This command helps to avoid clicks at the edit points when making cuts and joins by moving the edges of a selection region (or the cursor position) slightly so they are at a rising zero_crossing point.

Move Cursor

These commands move the cursor directly to the start or end of the selection or the track.

Region Save

Stores the position of the current selection region or cursor as observed on the Timeline. The position of this region or cursor can then be recalled by using Region Restore (see below). Using this command again will overwrite the previously stored position information. The command is grayed out if there are no audio tracks.

Region Restore

Moves the selection region or cursor to the position stored by the last Region Save command (see above). If a region is restored, this is only explicitly placed inside those tracks which are currently selected.

Only the position of the region or cursor is restored. No audio content is restored. Labels or split lines that were associated with the region or cursor are not restored. The screen focus does not return to the restored position, so you may need to zoom out or scroll the project to see the restored position.

Play Region

The items in this sub-menu allow you to Lock and Unlock the play region in the Timeline. See Play Regions.

Ed 27Jan13: ToDo What does it mean to "Lock" or "Unlock" the play region? Since we do not discuss this on the linked page we need to define the terms here – explaining what this pair does.

Preferences...

Displays the Preferences dialog. Preferences enable you change most of the default behaviors and settings of Audacity.