Important Things to Know A Variety of Transition Options There are more transition options than TrimStart and TrimEnd. Universal Overlap, SegueIn, SegueOut, TrimStart, TrimEnd, Cue, OnRamp, and OffRamp are all transition options available to you! Learn the role each of them can play and how they interact, on the Transitions page.

Trimming the Ends of Songs

There are situations where songs or other audio files that are imported into your broadcast computer have not been trimmed of silences at the front or back, which will result in uncomfortable lags on the air. Some songs also have tediously long fade-outs you may wish to shorten. For those situations, you'll appreciate the TrimStart and TrimEnd feature.

Note that the TrimStart and TrimEnd attributes do not actually change the file itself, but only change how much of the file will be played in TuneTracker.


Marking Your "Trim Points"

1.   Open a folder containing some songs, and assure the TrimStart and TrimEnd attribute columns are visible. If they are not, click the Attributes pulldown menu and put a checkmark next to each of those attributes. The columns will be displayed at the far right end of the folder and may need to be expanded to be fully visible, by grabbing the "crack" between them and dragging to make the columns wider.
   
   
   
2.   For the audio file you wish to adjust, type-in the amount you would like excluded from the front and/or end during playback. The time should be expressed in x.x seconds. "13" means 13 seconds. "63" means one minute and three seconds. "48.8" means 48 and 8/10 seconds. Accuracy is measured down the to the millisecond, though the most accuracy you'll realistically need to express is down to a tenth of a second.

If you do use the trim feature to cut back on the length of a particuarly long song fade, be careful not to go overboard. Trim doesn't create a shorter fade for you. It cuts abruptly, so if you mark your TrimEnd too deeply into the fade, at a point where the volume is still fairly high, you may notice a chopped ending. The universal overlap feature in TuneTracker helps to soften the blow of abrupt transitions, but the chopped ending may still be noticable if the end trimming of a song fade is too aggressive.



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