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Old 07-19-2018, 06:01 PM   #1
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Default Regions: quickest way to create a long list of start/end times?

Hello brilliant minds!

I figure there may be a quicker way to do this, so hopefully you have tips to share.

I have several audio interviews and been given paper edits. There are start and end times, like this:

1:17:06 - 1:17:17 ‘that used to be an island…’cause they need to have their trains go’
1:21:50 - 1:22:08 ‘I was told the story of...what allows them to float?’
1:22:46 - 1:22:55 ‘To create an alternative narrative...a really synthetic deep time’

I want to create Region Markers to delineate these times.

The fastest way I can come up with so far is to open the Region/Marker Manager and perform the following steps:

1. Double click on an empty space in the manager, to create a new marker
2. Click inside the "Position" prompt
3. Type in the start time
4. Repeat steps 1 and 2, and then type end time
5. Repeat steps 1 through 4 until I've entered all the start and end times
6. Go to Actions, and run SWS: Convert markers to regions
7. Delete Regions created between the End Time of a previous clip and the Start Time of the next one (e.g. using numbers above, it creates unnecessary region from 1:17:17 to 1:21:50, from 1:22:08 to 1:22:46, etc)

But is this really the quickest?

Any suggestions to shaving off some steps?

Thank you!

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Old 07-19-2018, 09:59 PM   #2
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well once you have the markers i guess you could shave off some time by simply double clicking the ruler between them (creates a time selection) and using a keyboard shortcut to make a region from time sel.
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Old 07-19-2018, 10:32 PM   #3
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If the interview parts are whole audio items, then this Action comes in handy:

Markers: Insert separate regions for each selected item

If the interview parts are not whole audio items, then you have to make a time selection around an interview part and then use this Action:

Markers: Insert region from time selection and edit...
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