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Old 09-04-2008, 07:43 PM   #27
Art Evans
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Here you go - two actions for doing an edit preview followed by a copy and paste if the preview is ok.

It uses markers 1, 2, 3, and 4. Marker one must be named !40163 and marker four must be named !40162. You could park those two at the end of the project to begin with. The custom action parks them there after it finishes running.

The type of edit this is for is the sort you get in classical music recording or speech recording, where you have multiple versions of all or part of the material, following each other on the timeline. You have a good section with a bad section in the middle of it. You want to replace that bad section with a good version recorded later on.

First drag the time selection across the bad section. Then run the custom action named "mark bad section". Then drag the time selection across the good section later on. Run the custom action "Mark good section for crossfade replace". You hear playback from 3 seconds before the bad bit, then it jumps to the good bit, and at the end of the good bit it jumps back to the end of the bad bit (which then presumably is good). So that, apart from there being no crossfades, is how the edit will sound.

If you like it, then click "ok" in the confirmation box. If you don't like it, click "cancel" and repeat from the beginning (if you need to adjust the part you identified as bad) or from the "mark good section..." instructions, if that needs changing.

When you are happy and you click "OK" then the custom action will copy the good bit and crossfade-replace-paste it over the bad bit, then play the result from three seconds before. You'll probably need to tweak the crossfades.

Mark bad section:-
Code:
ACT 3 0 "d02f2ce751132c49b1e4144c37a60167" "Custom: Mark bad section" 40630 40657 40631 40658
Mark good section:-
Code:
ACT 3 0 "1bdea527013dde459a94246fe22315be" "Custom: Mark good section for crossfade replace" 40630 40659 40631 40660 40635 40161 40084 1007 2000 1016 40163 40625 40164 40626 40717 40060 40161 40309 40058 40290 40717 40312 40058 40225 40228 40043 40657 40660 40630 40084 40635 1007
Other types of edit are of course possible. I hope before long to post a complete library of various custom actions for audio editing with Reaper.

Last edited by Art Evans; 09-04-2008 at 11:59 PM.
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