traviss

Is there a way to make the project end marker snap to the end of the last audio or midi region in my workspace? I frequently drag regions out to the right to have more space to work and move things around and then when I'm finished with a project I have to alternately drag the end marker to the left and zoom in, drag to the left, zoom in, drag, etc until it lands where I want it. I suppose I don't have to do that I could just select the regions and bounce but I like the neatness of the project ending with the last clip.

I figured this out. Since I intentionally mapped pause instead of stop to my keyboard, whenever I "stop" playback I've actually just paused so I can click and drag left and right on the ruler and then the audio scrubs exactly how I wanted it to. And because I'm using a pen and tablet it feels natural to drag back and forth like that. This might be a topic for a new post but is there a way to make any spot in the workspace area clickable for navigation instead of always having to click in the thin ruler area at the top of the screen to move the playhead? Using the click and drag technique I mentioned it'd be great to be able to click and drag left and right on a region's waveform and have the region stay put while the audio scrubbed.

I'm on a 2011 iMac too. I wouldn't think playing an audio file backwards would require that much processing speed? I can play HD video backwards on this machine when I'm editing.

I mapped reverse shuttle to my J key but I’m not hearing anything. When I hit it the play head reverses in what looks like increments of a second or two but it doesn’t play the audio in reverse it just moves in reverse until I stop it. Is that normal?

Is there a way to rewind or play backwards? I'm a video editor and I work in Avid Media Composer every day and in there my left hand lives on J-K-L, play reverse-pause-play forward. I've mapped pause and play forward to K and L on my Logic keyboard but I can't find anything about playing in reverse. I don't want to reverse an entire file/region, I just want to be able to pause and then play in reverse. I use this all the time in Avid to quickly land on the start or end of a word to make a cut. It's usually faster than constantly having to move my mouse (or tablet pen in my case) to the spot where I want to make a cut.

Thanks. I finally got a mono mp3. This is what I did in case anyone else needs help with this. I ended up changing all of mixer track inputs back to stereo, with the outputs also set to stereo to sort of "reset" the mixer back to the default as it was before I started changing things. This meant I had to redo my noise plug-in. Then I changed the "Master Track" to dual mono and LPX automatically named the two mono tracks "Stereo Out" and "Output 2" This removed the FX from my original stereo Master Track so I had to redo them on "Stereo Out." I spent several minutes confused as to why I was only hearing my compressor/limiter adjustments on the left channel before I realized it was because the "Stereo Out" track was the left channel of the dual mono. So I copied my newly created FX from "Stereo Out" to "Output 2." I don't know if that was necessary for my final file but it made it sound balanced and allowed me to hit my target loudness of -19. Then I just hit "BNC" on the "Stereo Out" track to bounce out a mono mp3 and ended up with exactly what I wanted. When the bounce options menu came up it said it was going to take 1.44GB for my 64Kbps, mono, 1 hour 34 minute podcast, but my exported mp3 was only 45MB. Not sure what the 1.44GB estimation was based on. Probably could have saved myself some time if I had immediately renamed the dual mono tracks. I don't quite understand why LPX would name one half of dual mono track pair "Stereo Out"?

How do I export my podcast as a mono mp3? I've searched and searched and either I don't actually know what I'm asking and/or looking for or I just can't find an answer so hopefully you guys can help me. I changed all of my channel inputs other than the stereo music track to mono but the outputs are "stereo out" When I change the outputs to mono I only hear audio from the left channel. Why would mono not just combine the left and right? When I change the master track to two mono output tracks, it creates a Stereo Out, and an Output 2 and my loudness instantly drops from -19 to -29, and I can't get it back to -19 without changing the master track back to stereo and then everything sounds great again. One more thing, if my original tracks were recorded in mono in Garageband, why would they have all defaulted to stereo when I opened the project in Logic? Thanks for any help you can give me. I'm a professional video editor but this audio routing and bouncing stuff has me so confused.