Welcome to Wondercraft’s enhanced timeline editor, a powerful tool that simplifies the creation and manipulation of your audio projects. Whether you’re producing a podcast, audiobook, or advertisement, the timeline editor offers all the features you need to craft professional, high-quality audio content with precision and ease. This guide will walk you through everything from generating audio to advanced clip editing techniques, helping you take full control of your creative process.
Getting Started: Generating Audio for Your Clips
The first step in creating your audio project is to generate audio from your script. Once you’ve written your content, generating audio is as easy as clicking a button. Here’s how:
• Generate Audio for a Clip: Click the “Regenerate” button between the voice and Parrot Mode to convert your script into spoken word.
Alternatively, click on “Stale” in the timeline editor to update an old clip. Learn more about generating audio here.
• Generate Audio for Multiple Clips: If you’ve made several changes, you can regenerate the audio for all newly edited clips by clicking “Regenerate All” to the left of the zoom slider in the timeline editor. This ensures that every part of your project is up-to-date and accurate. Find more details on generating audio for multiple clips here.
Organizing Your Audio Clips
Once your audio is generated, the timeline editor allows you to organize your clips with ease. Each paragraph from your script is automatically converted into its own audio clip, giving you the flexibility to manage them individually.
• Adding a Clip: You can add a new empty clip by pressing “Enter” at the end of a paragraph or by hovering over an existing paragraph and clicking the “+” button. This is perfect for inserting new sections into your track. For more details, check out the guide on adding clips here.
• Moving Clips: Rearranging clips is as simple as dragging and dropping. Select a clip, drag it along the timeline, and drop it where you’d like. Be careful not to grab the ends of the clip, as this will trim it instead of moving it. For more information, see how to drag clips here.
Editing Your Clips
Editing audio clips is where the timeline editor truly shines. Here’s how to refine your content to perfection:
• Duplicating a Clip: Click on a clip in the timeline and select the “Duplicate” button to create a copy of it. This is particularly useful if you want to reuse certain parts of your track without re-recording. Check out the full guide on duplicating clips here.
• Splitting a Clip: To break a clip into two parts, move the playhead to the desired split point
Select the clip, and click the “Split” button. This is great for isolating specific sections of audio for further editing. Learn more about splitting clips here.
• Trimming a Clip: You can trim off unwanted portions of a clip by hovering over the ends and dragging them inward. This feature helps you remove silences or mistakes with precision. For details on trimming, see the guide here.
• Combining Clips: If you have two clips that should be merged, navigate to the start of the latter clip and press “Backspace” to combine them into a single, continuous segment. Learn how to combine clips here.
Advanced Clip Adjustments
The timeline editor also offers advanced features to help you customize your audio even further:
• Adjusting Clip Speed: Select a clip and click the “Speed” button to alter the playback speed.
This is helpful when synchronizing speech with background music or adjusting the overall pace of your narration.
For more precision, hold the “Shift” key while dragging the clip for fine-tuned speed control. Learn more about adjusting speed here.
• Downloading Clips: After editing, you may want to download specific clips. Select the clip and click the “Download” button to save it as an MP3 file, allowing you to share or archive it separately from the full track. Full details on downloading clips can be found here.
• Deleting Clips: To remove a clip from the timeline, select it and hit “Delete” on your keyboard, or click the trash bin icon. This feature keeps your workspace clean and organized, ensuring that only relevant content remains. For more on deleting clips, visit the guide here.
Conclusion: Unlocking Your Creative Potential
Wondercraft’s timeline editor provides you with all the tools necessary to create polished, professional audio content with ease. From generating and arranging clips to fine-tuning speed, trimming, and splitting, every feature is designed to give you maximum creative control.
Now that you’re familiar with the timeline editor’s capabilities, you’re ready to start creating. Dive into your next project with confidence, knowing that Wondercraft’s intuitive tools will help you bring your audio vision to life. Happy editing!