Tascam X-48 - Manual (Page 56)

Editing
To see exactly what has been selected, click the button. The screen will show
information about your selection start and end points as well as the length of the selection.
For an exact time selection, such as 00:02:00:00, you can click in these fields and type in a
new in point, out point or selection length.
Clip Properties
There are three ways to call up this window:
•
With a clip selected, click the Windows menu and select Clip Properties
• With a clip selected, press Control-2 on the keyboard
• Double-click a clip using the Finger tool in the Smart Tool
This window gives you several options for working with a clip:
• You
can name the clip.
• Type in exact start, end and length times.
• You can also specify an exact fade-in and fade-out time and crossfade shapes,
either linear, exponential or reverse exponential.
• Clips can also be muted or locked by clicking these checkboxes. Locking a clip
makes it impossible to edit until unlocked.
• Another set of buttons in the Clip Properties window allow you to move the clip
either to the timecode embedded in a Broadcast WAVE file ("Broadcast Time") or
to the current Play Position.
Click OK or Cancel to confirm or ignore the changes.
Snap to Grid
Clips can snap to a grid for exact placement of imported or recorded audio in the timeline.
To access this feature, click on the Options menu and select Snapping. This menu has three
settings:
•
Enable Snapping turns the snap feature on or off.
• Draw Snap Grid displays vertical grid lines in the timeline for visual reference.
• Snap To is another submenu that selects how fine the snap grid is drawn. The
options are Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Frames or Subframes.
Cut, Copy, Delete, Paste
These commands do the expected edit functions to the selected audio. Keyboard shortcuts
are Control-X for Cut, Cntl-C for Copy, Cntl-V for paste and Delete for Delete. The only
one that requires further explanation is Delete, which doesn't actually delete the audio off
the drive but just removes it from the Edit Decision List (EDL). You can always undo the
operation or, if you've deleted a range of a clip, pull the new clip's head or tail to fill the
deleted space.
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