User Guide

CHP. 4 EDITING EVENTS

Clipboard information is pasted at the cursor’s position on the track. Existing events or portions of events

after the cursor adjust to occur later in the project. The amount of adjustment is based on the total length of

the information being pasted.

Pasting single track information in ripple editing mode

The information on the clipboard determines how many tracks are affected when you paste. If you have

copied or cut information from one track, only the selected track is affected by the pasted event and time

information.

Pasting multitrack information in ripple editing mode

ACID can paste multiple events as easily as single events.

Note:

Pasting in ripple editing mode ripples only the events

on the tracks that receive the clipboard contents. If you want

to ripple all tracks at the paste position, use the

Paste Insert

command from the Edit menu.

Slipping and sliding events

To help you picture what happens when you slip and slide events, think of an event as a window to a media

file. The window can display the entire media file or a small section. When the window displays only a

portion of the media file, you can move either the window or the underlying media to adjust the media

played by an event:

• When you slip an event, your event maintains its place on the timeline, but the media file moves in the

direction you drag.

• When you slide an event, the media file maintains its place on the timeline, but the event moves in the

direction you drag.

Clipboard contents Events before paste Events after paste

Paste

position

Newly pasted

event

Existing event

adjusts to move

later in the project.

These events will be

pasted

Paste

position

Existing events on the tracks adjust

later in the project

Newly pasted events