As one can see in the screenshot, a document can have an arbitrary
number of markers (Music faded in
, Start of voice
, etc).
These are just handy ways of remembering a particular location in a
document. In order to create a marker, simply click in the white /
gray area at the top of the window or move the insertion point to the
correct location and type [m]. Markers can also be given colors, for
example in order to distinguish between markers that serve different
purposes.
One convenient way of working with markers is the Markers tool that can be accessed from the Windows menu. When you click on a marker in this tool, the display of the current window changes so that the clicked marker is moved to the center of the window. If you use shift-click to select several markers, the display is zoomed out (or in) in such a way that all the selected markers fit within the width of the current window. If Adjust selection is checked, then the selection of the current track is adjusted so that it selects the portion of sound between the chosen markers. If only one marker is chosen, it moves the insertion point to the location of that marker.
The [+] button creates a marker at the center of the selection of the current track or at the insertion point if the selection is void. The [–] button allows you to delete the selected marker(s).
The four last items in the Selection menu are devoted to the management of markers. Since the meaning of the first two should be obvious, let us only concentrate on the function of the remaining two:
Allows to generate equidistant markers on your sound. This is especially useful in conjunction with the Split According to Markers function if you want to cut a very long sound into pieces of reasonable size.
You can choose Search for silences in order to place markers at the location of silences in your sound. The Maximal level parameter gives the threshold under which a sound is considered to be silence. The Minimal length parameter gives the minimal length a silence must have in order to be taken into account.
If a number is found in the marker name entered in the First marker text field, it is automatically incremented for each subsequent marker.
This item allows to modify all the markers of a file in one go.
If Change name is checked, Amadeus Pro will
use the corresponding name for the first marker and will try to make a
guess on how to increment it for the subsequent markers. For example,
if you specify Track 01
, the next markers will be called
Track 02
, Track 03
, etc. The Align position
field allows to align the marker positions on a specified time grid.
For example, specifying 75 Hz
for a file sampled at 44.1kHz
allows to align markers with sector boundaries on an Audio CD (tracks
on Audio CDs always have a length that is a multiple of 1/75th of a
second). This is useful to burn a CD without gaps between songs.
