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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0
By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:
• Make a selection for editing
• Perform basic sound file editing, such as Cut, Copy, Paste, and
Delete as well as Undo an edit
• Create a new file from portions of existing file
• Recording a new voice
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Select, Then Do
Select, Then Do
• Select the desired
audio part
• Edit the part
• Like word
processor for audio
First select the
part to be edited
Then use common edit
commands such as
Cut, Copy, and Paste
to alter the audio
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Open the File: Voiceover
Open the File:
Voiceover
• Click the Open button
The Open button
Note that the Sound
Forge workspace is
blank until you open
a file
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Open the File: Voiceover
Open the File:
Voiceover
• Click the Open button
The Play button
• Navigate to the file,
Voiceover
• Click the Play button
Watch as the cursor
moves through the
waveform
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Listening to Just a Second of the File
Listening to Just a
Second of the File
• Click and drag over a
portion of the file
Play
Click and drag to
select a portion of
the audio wave
• Click the Play button
• Only the selected
portion of the audio
part plays
When you play
the file, only the
selected portion
plays back
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Delete the Selected Audio Data
Delete the Selected
Audio Data
Undo
• Press the Delete key
Play All
• Click the Play All
button
• The word “Wow” has
been removed
• Click the Undo button
The selected data
(the word “Wow”)
has been deleted
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Cutting and Pasting
Audio Data
Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Cutting and Pasting Audio Data
Cut Paste
• Use Markers and
Regions to divide the
file logically
• Double-click between
two markers
• Click the Cut button
Double-click
between two
markers to select
the data
between them
Markers and
Regions help
organize the file
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Cutting and Pasting Audio Data (continue)
Cutting and Pasting
Audio Data
• Use Markers and
Regions to divide the
file logically
• Double-click between
two markers
• Click the Cut button
• Click the Paste button
The word “Wow” has
been pasted to the
end of the file
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Adjusting the Length of a Selection
Adjusting the
Length of a
Selection
• Create a selection
• Click and drag either
edge of the selection
to adjust it
The cursor changes
to indicate that you
can now adjust the
selection length
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Copy, Paste Audio Data and Examine the file
Copy, Paste Audio
Data and Examine
the file
• Copy selected data
• Press Ctrl + End
• Paste the data three
times
“And easier” has been
pasted into the end of
the file three times
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Copy, Paste Audio Data and Examine the file
(continue)
Copy, Paste Audio
Data and examine
the file
• Copy selected data
• Press Ctrl + End
• Paste the data three
times
• Press Ctrl + Down
Arrow to zoom out full
Choose Zoom, Out
Full to see all of the
audio data in the file
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Adjusting Cursor Placement via
Keyboard Shortcuts
Adjusting Cursor
Placement via
Keyboard Shortcuts
• Press Left Arrow to
move cursor left
• Press Right Arrow to
move cursor right
• Press Ctrl + Left/Right
Arrow for larger
movement
• Position cursor
directly before last
word in file
Use your Arrow
keys to position the
cursor just before
the last word
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Changing Cursor/Selection Focus
Changing
Cursor/Selection
Focus
• Cursor flashes at one
end of the selection
• Press the key “5”
• Focus switches to the
other end of selection
Press the key “5”
to switch focus
from one end of
the selection to
the other
Select the last two
words of the file,
and delete them
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Select All Data From Cursor to Beginning
Select All Data from
Cursor to Beginning
• Press Ctrl + Shift +
Home to select all data
to the beginning
• Press Delete
Place your cursor
just before “Wow”
Press Shift + Ctrl +
Home to select all
data to the beginning
of the file
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Select All Data to End of the File
Select All Data to
End of File
• Place your cursor just
before “and easier”
• Press Ctrl + Shift +
End
• Press Delete
Place your cursor
just before the
last two repeats
of “and easier”
Press Shift + Ctrl + End
to select all of the data
to the end of the file
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Using the Trim/Crop Command
Using the Trim/Crop
Command
• Discard data outside
of the current
selection
• Select “Sound editing
just gets easier”
• Click the Trim/Crop
button
Select the data
your want to keep
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Using the Trim/Crop Command (continue)
Using the Trim/Crop
Command
• Discard data outside
of the current
selection
• Select “Sound editing
just gets easier”
• Click the Trim/Crop
button
• Click the Undo button
All data outside
the selection has
been deleted
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Creating a New Sound File From an Existing
Sound File
Creating a New
Sound File From an
Existing Sound File
• Make a selection in the
existing sound file
Drag the selected data
to a blank space of the
Sound Forge work area
• Arrange your data
window to create blank
workspace
• Drag selected material
to blank workspace
Blank workspace
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Creating a New Sound File From an Existing
Sound File (continue)
Creating a New
Sound File From an
Existing Sound File
• Make a selection in the
existing sound file
• Arrange your data
window to create blank
workspace
• Drag selected material
to blank workspace
Sound Forge
creates a new
data window
The new data window
contains the selected
data from the original
data window
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Record a New Voice
Record a New Voice
• Check your recording
equipment
Click Record button
for recording
• Click Record button
A Recording
panel shows with
a blank file behind
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Record a New Voice (continue)
Click New… to choose
recording quality
Record a New Voice
• Check your recording
equipment
• Click Record button
• Click New…
A new Record
window shows
with
blank
Select
theadesired
sound
file behind
quality
for recording
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Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Record a New Voice (continue)
Record a New Voice
• Check your recording
equipment
• Click Record button
• Click New…
• Click Record button
Click Record
button to start
recording
Click Drop Marker
button to set the
markers while recording
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Summary
Basic Editing in Sound Forge 6.0: Summary
In this tutorial, you have learned how to:
• Make a selection using the mouse or the keyboard
• Audition and modify the selection until it is just right
• Use the cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete commands to edit the
sound file
• Experiment with the Trim/Crop command
• Use the drag and drop method for creating a new file
• Record a new voice
Sound Forge Support File Formats
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Sound Forge Support File Formats
Extension
Description
Opens
Saves
AIF/SND
Macintosh AIFF
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AU/SND
NeXT/Sun (Java) (PCM, µ-Law)
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AVI
Microsoft Video for Windows
√
√
DIG/SD
Sound Designer 1
√
√
IVC
Intervoice (ADPCM, µ-Law, A-Law)
√
√
MOV
Apple QuickTime Movie
√
√
MP3
MPEG-1 Layer 3 (Audio)
√
√
MPG*
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Video
√
√
OGG
Ogg Vorbis
√
√
PCA
Sonic Foundry Perfect Clarity Audio™
√
√
RAW
Raw Files (8- and 16-bit data: signed, unsigned, and Motorola and Intel byte
ordering)
√
√
RM
RealNetworks RealAudio 8.0
SND
Sounder/SoundTool
√
√
VOX
Dialogic VOX (ADPCM)
√
√
W64
Sonic Foundry Wave 64
√
√
WAV
Microsoft Wave
√
√
WMA
Microsoft Windows Media Format
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WMV
Microsoft Windows Media Video
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* MPEG-1&2 support requires the purchase of the MainConcept MPEG plug-in.
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