Selection Features; Selecting Clips; Select A Complete Clip By Clicking On Its Waveform/Block - Euphonix R-1 Digital Multitrack Operation Manual

Euphonix Version 3 Supplement to the R-1 Operation Manual
5.2

Selection Features

5.2.1

Selecting Clips

A Clip is formed each time you punch in and out on a Track. A Clip is a reference to
the underlying audio recorded and stored as a Sound File in the R-1 Directory system.
Editing in the Multitrack panel changes the Clips but not the Sound Files they reference.
The list of Clips on a Track, often described as an Edit Decision List (EDL) is small and
manageable (by comparison to actual audio files) so multiple versions of the EDLs can
be managed by Undo and Redo commands.
In previous versions, working on an EDL required selecting a region of time, then ex-
ecuting the edit operation. This was sometimes called Mark-In/Mark-Out editing be-
cause the selection region is constrained by the time of its start and end points. The start
and end points for the selection area do not have to correspond to the arrangement of
Clips already on the Track. If the selection starts in the middle of a Clip then only the
later half of the Clip will be affected by the edit. Conversely, if the end point lands in
the middle of a Clip then only the first part of that Clip will be edited.
Figure 5-3 Select a complete Clip by clicking on its waveform/block.
Mark-In/Out selecting is flexible and provides ample control over where an edit will
start and end but can be clumsy when selecting an entire punch without including time
on either side. Clip-based selection is more appropriate for these types of operations.
Select a Clip by pointing to it with the trackball cursor and clicking.
NOTE: The Clip head and tail define the Selection Start and End points. These region selec-
tion controls continue to work just as they did before. Clicking on a Clip automatically
turns the global Selection Control On. Adding another Track to the selection area
using the Ctrl key simply activates that Track and applies the Start and End Selection
constraints to that Track. You cannot multi-select Clips of differing time durations or
positions on various Tracks.
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