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7.13 REVERSE (REVERSES CLIPBOARD MATERIAL)
REVERSE takes the material on the clipboard and reverses its running order. The
reversed clip may be placed into the project material as desired. Reverse provides a
powerful editing feature, used frequently when creating ambient backgrounds for
motion pictures and television production.
Reverse Feature Application
A typical workstation user can only LOOP audio in one direction. However,
listeners can easily detect such a repeated loop, recognizing its pattern even if it is
mixed deeply under other effects.
If the material was a human breathing, and a typical workstation user looped it, the
listener would hear: "inhale/inhale/ inhale/inhale.”
RADAR II’s REVERSE feature enables you to loop audio in forward and in
reverse– this masks the “repeated loop” characteristic, making for a more natural
sound.
Given the above example of human breathing, after a RADAR II-created reversed
loop, the listener hears a more natural “inhale/exhale/inhale/exhale.”
To create a reversed-loop ambience track:
1. Record audio to be REVERSE-LOOPED.
2. Locate to the head of the recording, then place a MARK IN. point.
3. Locate to the end of the recording, then place a MARK OUT point.
4. COPY the marked segment to the clipboard.
5. Press MENU/PREV, then select the EDIT menu and press ENTER.
Scroll down to the REVERSE item, then press ENTER again.
6. Locate the transport to the end of the original recording, then back up
the transport a few frames.
7. PASTE the reversed clipboard material into the project.
8. Listen to the track to make sure you have achieved a smooth
forward/backward sound.
9. Mark the head and tail of the track with MARK IN/MARK OUT.
10. LOOP the audio as many times as necessary to fill the scene.
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