Contextual Audio Editing

Working with Clipboard

The Clipboard is an area in CAE to pin audio parts with/without text.


Starting to work with CAE the Clipboard is empty.

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Fill the Clipboard

There are several ways to fill the clipboard:

  • You can simply drag&drop your Elements from e.g. ContentManager into it.

  • Within the Top Menu item "Edit→Create Clip..." you can create a clip in the Clipboard.

  • You can select text in the Text Area, and drag it to Clipboard.

  • You can use the context menu, and choose “Create Clip”

  • You can use the configured keyboard shortcut

Collapse/ Expand Clipboard

With a click on the "Clips" button you can collapse or expand the Clipboard.

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Takes on/off

A take is the entire audio source, while a clip is a segment of that source. When Takes is on in the Clipboard, you’ll see both the full audio source and the clip taken from it.

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Manage Clipboard Items

Having Elements in the Clipboard you are able to edit its items. Simply choose the 3 dots on the right side of each top the items.

  • Remove: Is removing the entry from Clipboard 

  • Rename: Change the Name of the entry

  • Color: choose your color per entry


Using the Clipboard 

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You can add clips from the Clipboard to the timeline in several ways with the following context menu:

  • Append to Track: puts the entry after the last entry on the targetting Track

  • Insert at Track: Puts the entry to the position of your soundhead on the targettingTrack

  • Transcribe Audio: Transcribe the audio of the selected clip

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You can use drag&drop to append a clip to timeline track end.

  • With Shift+Drag, you can insert a clip at the position of soundhead on the timeline.