Copied region length auto-adjust to paste location length?

[greglawrence]

Hello all,

I'm still working in HD7.4 and was wondering if this is a feature that's been added to newer versions of PT. I do a LOT of audiobook production, which often involves pretty extensive editing.

A quick run-down to be clear about what I'm doing/asking:

I'm often performing edits to remove noises that occur between spoken phrases. But we don't want to leave digital silence in the track, so it's important to paste in recorded room tone rather than simply cutting the offending material out.

Typically I'm doing these edits during playback in real time. I'll drop in a short section of room tone audio at the end of a phrase and then manually adjust the length until just before the next phrase starts.

I've always thought that it should be possible to copy a long stretch of audio (say 10 seconds long), select the area in between phrases (say 1.5 seconds), and have the long pasted audio auto-adjust to the 1.5 seconds of space.

Hope that makes sense? So the question is whether copied regions can auto-adjust to targeted paste lengths in newer versions of PT?

It seems to be the sort of feature that could sneak into a new release without getting much attention.

Thanks in advance!

[Stig Eliassen]

I've always thought that it should be possible to copy a long stretch of audio (say 10 seconds long), select the area in between phrases (say 1.5 seconds), and have the long pasted audio auto-adjust to the 1.5 seconds of space.

Hope that makes sense? So the question is whether copied regions can auto-adjust to targeted paste lengths in newer versions of PT?

Yes, it makes sense, and you can do this in 7.4.

• make the source selection
• copy
• make the target selection
• Opt+Cmd+V (Repeat to fill selection)

[greglawrence]

Hey!! PT Lover - you made my day!! And actually, I swapped the keyboard shortcut for this with Cmd + B since that's much easier and I never use the Clear shortcut.

Nice!! Thanks a lot!!

[Stig Eliassen]

Cool! We don't need PT 10! Pfhhh!

[greglawrence]

No kidding! I love the stability of my system. But my G5 is getting older.....and an HD Native system looks pretty darn good for my needs.