Splitting A Clip into Pieces

[gmpolin]

When I split a clip into pieces (either audio or midi), and then I go to edit the pieces, I don't see a view of only the part I clipped. I still see the entire original clip, with the parts I cut away dimmed out.

I assume someone likes this. It has been this way since Mixcraft7, and then 8 and now 9. But it is driving me crazy, making the pieces hard to edit. I want to be working with a 4 bar phrase, for example, but instead, when I open it, I see the entire original piece (maybe 32 bars!), and the part I want is tiny in the editor and has to be sized and organized. It wastes a lot of time.

Can someone tell me why this works this way, and how possibly I can change this behaviour?

Thanks for any help with this.

Glenn

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

It works this way because Mixcraft is a non-destructive editor. You can cut and paste as much as you want, and the original recording remains untouched.

Try this: select the clip and press Ctrl+W to make it into a new clip.

Greg

[gmpolin]

What a relief! I never would have found that; I thought it was for taking something audio with effects and mixing it to a new clip.

Thanks for the quick help.

Glenn

[lonestarguy]

Hi,

It works this way because Mixcraft is a non-destructive editor. You can cut and paste as much as you want, and the original recording remains untouched.

Try this: select the clip and press Ctrl+W to make it into a new clip.

Greg

Greg, it seems like gmpolin is seeing that the Ctrl+W is making the split clip into a new stand alone clip with the rest of the clip removed? If so, it's not doing that for me. After the function, I can still expand to the original video. Thoughts? This whole splitting thing has been killing me, lol. Finally decided to look at the Forum.
Actually, the command is grayed out in the drop down... hmmm it's MP4 video.
OK, more... I'm using Ctrl+T to split and it splits but yea, then the Ctrl-W isn't a valid command.

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

We were discussing audio clips. You don't have those options with video clips.

Greg

[lonestarguy]

Oh shoot... ok. Thx

[aj113]

I have never really used that editing pane in 10 years (maybe now and again for noise reduction). What can you do with it that you can't do by editing the clip itself in the project?

[Anorax]

well you can warp a sound clip now (change the playback speed, and therefore timing, of certain parts of the clip), but that's about it.