Editing Audio

Making a Selection:

1. To select the part you wish to cut, copy or paste to, use the selection tool . If it's not activated, do so now by clicking on it in the toolbar.
2. Now press and hold the left mouse button while you drag the mouse to mark an area. The selected area will appear darker than the rest of the clip. Press spacebar to play the selected audio (see below)

3. To extend or contract your selection, hold down the SHIFT button and click on the area you wish your selection to extend or contract to.

Cut, Copy and Paste

In order to cut or copy, you must first have a portion of audio selected. Cut: removes your selection from the track and copies it to the clipboard. Copy leaves the selection in place while copying it to the clipboard. The paste function inserts cut or copied portions from the clipboard into the audio track. These features can be reached through the edit menu or you may use the keyboard shortcuts: CTRL X - Cut, CTRL C - Copy and CTRL P - Paste. Also, to paste you can either select a place by clicking the audio track and pasting into that location, or selecting a portion of audio to paste over.