Hello,
First off, I’d like to thank all who help me in advance. I’ve been trying to figure this out by reading app comments, the user guide and blog posts, and even went to youtube videos that didn’t give me what I was looking for. I recently purchased Ferrite’s upgrade, and I have a bluetooth keyboard for use. It’s a simple loge tech keyboard that has the capability to connect to 3 devices, so I have my iPad and iPhone 8 that I have the app on, and can use the same keyboard for both devices. Anyway, I am wondering how to select parts of an audio file to either be deleted, or have affects applied too? Maybe my crazy brain is starting to dissolve after being married in too much university work that maybe the instructions aren’t just quite clear to me, haha. Anyway, I’d love to be able to do more with ferrite, but getting behind this concept seems to be the biggest road block at this time. Is it possible to select audio with start/end markers like some desktop editors allow you to do? Does it have to be a finger gesture, or can you do it with the bt keyboard. I’ve been able to understand a few shortcuts, but starting and ending a selection for editing still alludes me. Thanks again for all who help, and have a great day.
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Hello, I have the same question that I noticed that nobody has commented on it. I’m not so sure how well this program works and how to use it. I recently sent off an email to the developers to see if they could help. I too am having the same issue I’d like to learn how to use it and have purchased the upgrade but just don’t seem to have the ability to figure out how to select audio in the middle of a file or maybe from a certain point to the beginning or end, even though I have read the user manual as well there’s a lot of really great support for this app and people seem to really like it, but I am struggling with the used case scenario and there isn’t a whole lot of audio demos on how to use it
Me too
I've been struggling with selecting audio as well. I'm not sure what's going on, but it seems like moving around in Ferrite is more difficult than it used to be.
Here's how you select audio.
Warning, I haven't actually tried this yet. But it looks likewhat Garage Band and Logic do, so I'm fairly sure I'm correct.
1. Move to the beginning of the selection you want to make. See the relevant sections of the user guide here, I start with Voiceover Accessibility because it describes some editing behaviors. Then you've got the keyboard shortcuts.
https://service.wooji-juice.com/ferrite/user-guide/ferrite-user-guide-3.0.html#chap_accessibilityVoiceOver
You've got a. few options. You can play, and pause at the place you want to begin. You can use the various arrowing commands to move through your track, zoom level is important here too. If your zoom is larger, you'll move by larger chunks of audio.
2. Hit cmd-t. This splits a clip at wherever you're positioned. Now, instead of having one chunk of audio, you have two, the audio before where the playhead is, and everything after.
3. Move to the end of the selection you want to make. This works exactly the same as whatever you did in step 1 above.
4. Hit cmd-t to split again.
Now you have three clips.
1. The audio before your selection.
2. Your selection.
3. The audio after your selection.
Please note that in Pro, which I don't own yet, you can pick other keyboard schemes, the user guide tells you how to see what their shortcuts are. You can also make your own shortcuts in Pro. But this is how you'd do it with the standard shortcuts.
If you're used to something like Gold Wave in Windows, where IIRC you hit left bracket to mark the start of a selection and right bracket to mark the end, this may seem a little strange to you. I actually think it's better though, and here's why, using Gold Wave as the example because I think most people are familiar with it, given its popularity.
If I mark a selection in Gold Wave, I have to make sure I'm limited to the selection before I do anything. There are special playback commands and other commandsfor that selection, which means more keystrokes to remember. It's pretty easy to get out of that selection, from what I remember of using Gold Wave. This is nothing against GW, it's great.
Now let's look at Ferrite or Garage Band or what have you. Once I split a clip out like this, it's its own thing. As long as that clip is selected, I can do whatever I need to with it, knowing that whatever I'm doing is only applied to that clip. Pretty sure I can use standard commands to play and such too.
Hope that helps.