Cut and mix to a selected layer

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I’m tidying up a live video recording, where the camera was placed some 5-10 m from the scene.
Unmix Crowd Noise is really a game changer here, combined with the Envelope function to allow for some noise between the tunes.

In the resultant Crowd layer there are still some remnants of Vocals, Drums or whatever.
No problem, it is possible to move those remnants to the correct layers with the Transfer tool, usually with very good results.

When it comes to Vocals or instruments containing tonal material I use the Harmonics Selection tool first and then the Transfer tool.
It works, but with large selections and a big Transfer tool ’brush’ the process is not very smooth; the Transfer tool will move sluggishly, as we all know.

It would have been great to have an addition to the ’Cut Special’ menu item that could directly cut and mix to a selected layer, like the Transfer tool does. And perhaps a corresponding ’Copy Special’ item.

That way I could clean up the Crowd layer very fast and effectively just by using Harmonics Selection and then Cut and mix to the Vocal layer.

After that it would be a fast business to transfer the still remaining remnants with the Transfer tool, directly without any selection.

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The difficulty here is to define “a selected layer”.
SpectraLayers uses the currently selected layer as the source for the operation. How you define the target layer is then an open question.

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Ok, let’s call it ”Cut and mix to target layer” instead. :smiley:
Wouldn’t it be possible to define it the same way we define it with the Transfer tool, with the add on selector?

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what is the “add on selector”
I don’t find that term anywhere in the manual
I wonder what you mean
the target layer drop down?
the “add to selection” selection type?

something else?

again, I have been leveraging setting target layer by whatever the highest level unselected layer in whichever folder

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”The target layer drop down”.

This. That’s where we select the target, regardless of what it’s called. Can’t be selected anywhere else.

Coupled with a ”cut and mix to target layer” it would certainly be an ’add on’.
But maybe the definition of the target layer could be done in other ways, e.g. via a (dynamic) context drop down next to the ”Cut…” menu item.

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Again, target layer is whatever unselected layer is on top in a group
which is an alternative way to select the Transfer Tool target layer than the Tools Settings target layer drop down :slight_smile:

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That is correct.

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