I need to proportionally shrink all the tracks here so that the whole group ends at the marker position, at timecode 01:03:34:00 exactly. I can’t change the project tempo because that would affect another set of tracks that is also in the project.
I tried putting all of them in a folder track, and using the Sizing applies time stretch tool, but even though while dragging it would appear that it’s working, when I release the mouse button they all go stay where they were.
The only thing that works is time stretching a couple of tracks, but it seems to me that when there’s a track with multiple parts in it, even if you select them all, stretching doesn’t work, but if it’s a track with just one long part, it does work. But I need all of them to stretch proportionally as a group.
You need to glue all parts on each track together to one. Then place the beginning of each part at the same time position.
Time stretch uses the beginning of a part (or audio event) as the “anchor”. You would like the leftmost point of your selection to be used as an anchor but there is no function like this in Cubase.
I imagine if Steinberg would expand the functionality of the Range Tool it could work in the future. Select a range and then be able to use “expand/compress time range”.
Furthermore if we could have such a Range Tool inside the Key Editor we could also select several notes as a block and expand/compress their start and end position relative to the beginning of the Range. I mention this as this was discussed in another topic recently.
A Range Tool in the Key Editor would also allow to use “Duplicate” on a range. This was also discussed elsewhere several times.
For the lovin’ nosepicking of me I just simply could not figure out a way to use “Sizing Applies Time Stretch” to collectively hasten or slow down individual cues on my projet timeline. It would just be a complete mess. Your suggestion to glue everything and have them all start at the same start point, was what did it!
Now I can have the complete freedom to change the speed of any cues on my filmscoring project, without having to actually touch the Tempo Track (which screws up music to visual sync)!
I can’t believe I’ve been banging my head against this (touching the tempo track screws up music to visual sync) wall with Cubase for so many years, and STILL haven’t figured out how to actually get results with Time Stretch!
I’d buy you a mansion complete with a pool if I could!
Nice to hear it helps you in your endeavours.
If your work gets published in any form, let us know in the Steinberg lounge and make sure to ping me, so that I don’t miss it.
Alot of the stuff I do is pretty much a NDA until it releases, but that’s not really the point. The happiest feeling now is that I can actually adjust any cue on my timeline to any speed, WITHOUT screwing up sync of the rest of other cues to the video.
Music supervisors will be happy, which means directors will be happy, and hence producers will be happy.
I very much doubt if a link to YouTube is breaking any copyright laws. If such was illegal, why does YouTube provide a “Copy Link” menu item on each video - if links were illegal?
