Hello glenboy23,

Welcome to the ADR forum

It seems like this should be fairly simple. What am I doing wrong?

Cut/copy/paste functions are available in the Edit, Restore & Mix modules of ADR. There's a very clear guide in the Help file



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Quote Hello glenboy23,

Welcome to the ADR forum

It seems like this should be fairly simple. What am I doing wrong?

Cut/copy/paste functions are available in the Edit, Restore & Mix modules of ADR. There's a very clear guide in the Help file




Yes I'm following the help guide precisely. I use the scrubber to highlight a section. I copy it and then when I hit paste, I get a dialogue box that asks do you wish to insert or overwrite. I wish to do neither. I want to copy the selected section to Track 2 in the mix mode, but when I select Track 2, it pastes the entire 1-hour clip.

PIX

Ahh, that's because you're in the Mix room, while PIX's screenshots are from the Edit screen. Try it there and it should work as described.

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Quote Ahh, that's because you're in the Mix room, while PIX's screenshots are from the Edit screen. Try it there and it should work as described.

In the edit screen, copy & paste only adds the selected segment back into the existing file. I don't want to add it back into the existing file, I want to isolate the segment as a separate file and then pull it into another track in the mix room.

I followed these same procedures in the mix screen and that's where my problem comes. It does not paste the clipboard into the empty track, it just pastes the entire file.

I guess I could delete the whole file in the edit screen except for my clip, export/produce it as an mp3, and then reimport it. That seems kind of hokey.

Just to clarify, is what's shown in this screen capture what you're trying to do?



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Quote Just to clarify, is what's shown in this screen capture what you're trying to do?



PIX

Yes. That's exactly what I do, but I don't get the same result. I get the entire track duplicated, not the segment I highlighted.

Thanks for the video. I don't know how to post a video, or I'd show you how it works for me and the reason I'm posting.

I appreciate your attempts to help me.

Quote I don't know how to post a video, or I'd show you how it works for me and the reason I'm posting

If you have a YouTube account, upload it there and make sure the visibility is set to either Public or Unlisted (NOT Private) then paste the link here directly or use the forum's video box to embed it like PIX did:

You can also upload it to a cloud folder like on Google Drive or OneDrive and paste a shareable link here so others can download it.

Hello again,

Don't worry. You're not going bonkers! I've just seen exactly what you're talking about:

I get the entire track duplicated, not the segment I highlighted.

In preparation for another screen capture, I fabricated a longer track by combing tracks/songs then produced that as a single audio file (~20mins in duration). That produced file was imported into ADR to replicate what you're doing.

When I attempted to select part of the track to move or copy/cut, ADR slected the whole track. i.e. the selected section wouldn't remain selected! I'm still investigating what causes that.

Perhaps a simpler option for you (until we get resolution) might be to split the track [Ctrl+T] betweem songs/pieces, then simply drag & drop to re-order your music.

Here's the track I constructed, using some downloaded pieces from Epidemic Sound (so please only use for testing).

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Quote

If you have a YouTube account, upload it there and make sure the visibility is set to either Public or Unlisted (NOT Private) then paste the link here directly or use the forum's video box to embed it like PIX did:



You can also upload it to a cloud folder like on Google Drive or OneDrive and paste a shareable link here so others can download it.

Thanks for the tip!

Quote Hello again,

Don't worry. You're not going bonkers! I've just seen exactly what you're talking about:

I get the entire track duplicated, not the segment I highlighted.

In preparation for another screen capture, I fabricated a longer track by combing tracks/songs then produced that as a single audio file (~20mins in duration). That produced file was imported into ADR to replicate what you're doing.

When I attempted to select part of the track to move or copy/cut, ADR slected the whole track. i.e. the selected section wouldn't remain selected! I'm still investigating what causes that.

Perhaps a simpler option for you (until we get resolution) might be to split the track [Ctrl+T] betweem songs/pieces, then simply drag & drop to re-order your music.

Here's the track I constructed, using some downloaded pieces from Epidemic Sound (so please only use for testing).

PIX

I'm relieved to find out I'm not going bonkers. I assumed ADR would have this capability because I do it all the time in PowerDirector.

Anyway, I'll use the work arounds for now. Thanks for bird-dogging this. I'll be interested to see if you're able to figure it out.

I'll also be interested to see whether I can figure it out! It hasn't happened thus far.

I wouldn't regard the split option as a workaround, myself. It seems to be a cleaner way to go about what you're trying to do. AND it does what you'd expect!

It's also so simple, even I could manage it



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Quote I'll also be interested to see whether I can figure it out! It hasn't happened thus far.

I wouldn't regard the split option as a workaround, myself. It seems to be a cleaner way to go about what you're trying to do. AND it does what you'd expect!

It's also so simple, even I could manage it



PIX

You know, in reviewing this, I realized that I hadn't used the split function before. You're right. That's a really clean way to accomplish my goal. So I learned something new. Thanks again.