Topic: Cropping audio

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  • July 20, 2010 at 15:35 #2313
    LiquidProj3ct
    Participant

    I wanted to remix and old techno song, so I converted a long mp3 to wav and I loaded it in Podium. My idea was extract few musical loops (2-3 seconds loops) and starting to remix with them. But when I selected&looped the first loops and I cropped it:

    – The operation was extremately slow, it seem that my PC was rewritting again the 700Mb file, can this operation be optimized?
    – I’m not able to import the full file again from the file browser, everytime I import it I only import the cropped loop (and I cannot slip edit it), but the 700 is there, because I can hear it with browser’s preview

    July 21, 2010 at 20:17 #18932
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    The disk activity is because Podium stores the part of the 700mb that you crop away into the undo history. In order to “fix” this, I’ll need to implement a new “maximum storage size used by undo history” setting next to the existing “maximum sequence/sound undo levels” option. This would mean that if you crop away wave data beyond the set maximum size, you would not be able to undo the crop action.

    I’m not able to import the full file again from the file browser, everytime I import it I only import the cropped loop (and I cannot slip edit it), but the 700 is there, because I can hear it with browser’s preview

    If you try to drag in a sound file that is already imported in the project, the import is skipped. So the sound object that you cropped is still the one used, although it has not been saved to file yet.

    July 22, 2010 at 08:41 #18937
    LiquidProj3ct
    Participant

    @Zynewave wrote:

    If you try to drag in a sound file that is already imported in the project, the import is skipped. So the sound object that you cropped is still the one used, although it has not been saved to file yet.

    Uhmm ok, is there any workaround? maybe bouncing individual sections is the faster way?

    July 22, 2010 at 11:27 #18938
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    You could try placing the 700 MB sound file on a track, use the scalpel tool to split it up in the pieces you want, select all the pieces, and then use the “Convert to Unique Cropped Copy” edit menu command.

    If you want to avoid the undo history issue, you could also select the segment you want in the sound editor, and then use the “Export Selection to Sound File” file menu command.

    July 22, 2010 at 17:08 #18943
    LiquidProj3ct
    Participant

    The second option worked for me, thanks 😉

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