Hi,
I’m doing a lot of narration editing for audio books. I often cut at a specific time to cut out a breath or something else. I know I can mark the in and out with my mouse.
For my workflow it would be a lot quicker to simply cut the event at the start point and at the end of the segment that has to be cut out, mark this event and delete it. So far so good. Right now I have to grab the right event and position it manually to close the gap and match the pace of the narrator. It would be MUCH easier, if I could simply delete the event and have all events to the right jump to the position of the event that I have just deleted.
What I’m asking: Is there really no way to delete an event and close the gap without manually marking with the mouse? I don’t find any command for that.
If there is no command - is there a workaround? It would be such a HUGE timesaver!
Shuffle edit is a crude workaround … dont get me wrong, I’m glad it’s there… but I think the OP is real asking for a proper Ripple Edit mode. Like so many others, for SO long …(decades!).
There are many posts here with requests and ideas for how it could work but nothing so far. IMO it’s a big issue. There’s no doubt that Nuendo can achieve any desired result in the end, but with spoken word content ( books, podcasts, radio etc ) the lack of a comprehensive ripple mode makes the process much slower.
I’ve said this before here, but I moved all my podcasting work over to Final Cut Pro … a video editor!… which has superior Ripple functionality ( drag ripple, trim ripple. jog ripple… in both directions on the timeline ) all without changing tools or ‘freezing ‘ the waveforms. I could blaze though an edit in half the time it took in Nuendo. If even 3 seconds is saved on every edit it adds up over hundreds of edits!
Well, ripple edit is a lot more of what I’m asking for. Ripple is a whole toolset of what would be very neat, if you have to edit a lot of dialogue, like podcasts or audio books.
But for now it would be great if we could just have the option to erase a segment and let the following segments jump to the position (start point) of the deleted segment. That would be so awesome and would save A LOT of work and clicking.
Sure, a full ripple edit toolset would be great, but the essential feature for me would be the option to delete a segment and let the rest move to the position of the deleted segment.
Shuffle edit is not usefull because you would have to activate it and deactivate it on every edit, that you want to do with this method. And: The following segments do not jump to the position of the deleted segment but close the whole gap - no matter, where the deleted segment was in the timeline. That is useless.
No. It is a delete Segment. I don’t want to use the range tool. That is a lot of extra steps.
We need a command that deletes a segment and puts the follwing segments to the position of the deleted segment.
That would save a lot of time!
Before you ask why:
In dialogue editing we often have the task to delete whole pararaphs that were narrated twice. The range tool is not really convenient for that as you constantly have to zoom in and out. I would simply do a “devide segment” at position 1 and on postion 2 and then delete the segment in between. Fast, easy and accurate.
Hmm i think it could be useful but it depends on your workflow. When you habe an in and out point (for your segment you want to delete), then you just have to make sure it is at such a spot that shuffle action moves it to a good moment. As in : the in point is your choice so you have influence over where segement 2 ‘lands’.
I have shuffle under a button on my wacom to (de)activate it next to my ‘events’ edit mode button. This makes this all very fluid.
Sorry - there is no time to do that. Have in mind that we do about 2000 edits in just one audio book. It is a huge error source if you would always have to take care, what nuendo is doing and where it places the segment. I tried it - not useful.
We need a dedicated command to delete a segment while the remaining segments on that track jump to the start position of the deleted segment. I don’t need more clicks - I don’t need any workarounds - I need just one simple command (one button), that does the delete and the repositioning. Almost any other NLE have this (even the video NLEs have better support for edits than Nuendo).
Double clicking a “segment” (event) with the range tool selects that whole region. But since you don’t want to “use” the range tool, I’m sure there’s a macro you can make to do a range selection of a selected event, then delete time. One simple key command.
Execute the chosen macro using a custom key command. (Tested in 14.0.40 on Windows and works fine).
The Macros assume the correct track is selected and the correct selection tool is being used, so think before use. Or if you want to make sure the correct track is selected, use Preferences>Editing>Track Selection Follows Event Selection. These macros may not work as expected if you have activated ‘Combine Selection Tools’.
I edit a ton of audiobooks and take advantage of the dual select tool (hot key #1). Just double click the segment in the upper half, which activates the range tool and selects the entire segment. Then “Cut Time” which I have as “X” hotkey. It’s really quick. I have mainly stayed with Nuendo since v1.5 (more than 20 years) because of how quick it is to edit narration.
You can also take advantage of macros for more complex edits. I build a room tone track just below the narration track and have a one key macro to copy room tone into my selected range on the narration track. Add a ShuttlePro and you can really speed edit your audiobooks.
