Truncate Silence
How can I truncate the all the silent parts of a track down to 3 seconds?
Mac mini, iOS 8.1.3
Can someone help me with this?
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10 replies
Help?!? 😕
Hi, rav.
I'm not sure exactly what you want to do here, but can't youi edit out the longer passages of silence using the scissor tool?
1 - After highlighting the track/s you want to edit, put the playhead at the beginning of the silence you want to edit or loose.
2 - Use the scissor tool and cut the highlighted regions.
3 - Move further along the regions and reslect where you want the second edit to be, then highlight and cut again.
4- Highlight the cut area and delete.
If you look in the transport bar, that gives a time in minutes and seconds as well as the bar position. USe that to get your 3 seconds.
Hope this helps,
regards,
Scorpii
Are you trying to end up with something like this (the blue is audio of however long lengths; the green is silence - all 3 seconds long)?
I don't want to do this manually and if I do it like the above image the silence does not sound like a natural pause because you can hear the difference between the sound in the room and deleted section of the recording. I need the exact thing audacity does in its truncate silence function like this:
Look into 'strip silence' - I had assumed you had gotten that far and wanted to even out all the missing silent parts to 3 seconds each.
That is exactly what I want to do and that is exactly what the truncate silence tool does in audacity. It converts all the pauses in the audio conversation to 3 seconds each. How can I do this in logic? I also did a search for strip silence and got no results.
It's buried deep inside a context menu of a region.
- Click to select the region with you audio recording
Now:
- Do a right click to open the context menu
- Go down to Split .... and clock on it to open the sub menu
- in the sub menu, you'll find Strip Silence.
or:
- press ctrl-X .
This will open a window, which lets you adjust various parameters, comparable to Audition, but there's a waveform view, which lets you preview the result.
Best,
DaCaptain
One thing I didn't see before, and this may kill the whole point, is that you want the silence to not be actual silence? Just lowered volume, like an expander? Strip silence won't get you that, it will just remove entirely the parts that fall below the threshold.
The 3 second thing takes a few steps, but if you need those low volume (instead of silence) parts there's no point in explaining it - Audacity seems to be the better choice.
Truncate Silence