ISSUE: Crop Time Tool (Display/GUI Bug)

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Hi there,

I’ve encountered a problem in SpectraLayers where the display doesn’t follow the edit correctly. The display shows time that isn’t there. This occurs with the Crop Time function.

How to recreate:

  1. Create a new file (my settings: 60 seconds long, 48kHz Stereo)
  2. Hit record button and wait 10 seconds to record some silence at the beginning
  3. Now start capturing/recording a portion of audio
  4. Press stop
  5. Select the audio portion only and use the Crop Time tool.
  6. Result: The display will still show the silence that was present at the beginning of the file, but pressing play will instantly start at the correct cropped portion of the audio. While the silence is still displayed on screen, it doesn’t actually exist.

Video demonstrating the issue:

Current workaround:

  1. Use the Delete Time tool before and after the audio portion instead of Crop Time.

System/software version used:
Windows 10 Pro 22H2 || SpectraLayers 11.0.60

Regards, Jim.

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interesting…is that in standalone?

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Yes, in the standalone app.

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@Robin_Lobel I’m wondering if you’ve seen this post? I understand you have a lot on your plate. The “crop time” bug still exists for me in v12.0.30 (Windows 11 Pro 24H2).

Thanks, Jim.

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I don’t think this is necessarily a bug, more a (questionable) feature / how-it-works and has been that way for several versions by now, IIRC.
See also this thread with the same topic:

@Robin_Lobel Thinking about this again, maybe a reasonable solution would be for Edit → Crop Time … to retain the cropped position in the timeline (= as it works now, useful for editing multi-layer projects), but Project → Crop Time … should be changed so that any content is shifted to the zero mark, as probably most users would expect.

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