I'm currently using PD 13.

I wear a helmetcam during my hockey games (spy glasses within my helmet, actually.) Some of the scorekeepers try to keep themselves entertained by playing music from their MP3 player during breaks in the action. The problem with that, for me, is that YouTube has become draconian about searching for recognizable music, and dinging me with a copyright violation.

(Aside: This falls so squarely under Fair Use that it should be laughable. They're usually about thirty second clips, extremely poor quality, along with conersation and other noise. Nobody would call them a replacement for a purchased copy of the music. And it's completely incidental to the subject of the video. But, there's no way to get ahold of a human to make that judgement call. Grr.)

So. On those nights that the scorekeeper plays music, I have to go through my video and mute around any conversation or other audio that I actually want to keep. The steps I've come up with to do that are:

• Play/scrub to find the beginning of the segment


• Drop a keyframe


• Advance a frame


• Drop a keyframe (leave audio at normal, so I can hear what's going on)


• Play/scrub to the next sound I want to hear


• Drop a keyframe


• Go back a frame


• Drop a keyframe


• Drop audio to 0


• Jump back one keyframe


• Drop audio to 0


• Advance one keyframe


• Continue playing

That's an awful lot of manual work, methinks, that takes my mouse all over the screen. Is there an easier way? Is there any way to just mark an In and an Out and choose Mute?

I appreciate any pointers,

Drake Christensen