Ripple Trim and Preview Edit Custom Action – REAPER Dialogue Editing Quick Tip

I do a lot of ripple editing for the dialog work I do for podcasts and these videos.
I’ve recently come up with a way to save some time doing this editing, by making a custom action that trims, jumps back, and plays the edit in context. This saves me from needing to click earlier in the edited track to hear how it flows.

I use S to split, A for Custom Trim Left, and Shift-A for Custom trim and preview.

Custom Trim left action:

Item: Trim items left of cursor
Item navigation: Move cursor to start of items
View: go to cursor

Go to Extensions: Command Parameters and set Seconds (edit cursor) to [1.000]

Custom trim and preview action:

Custom: Trim left
Xenakios/SWS: Move left configured seconds
Transport: Play

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October 21, 2016

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10 responses to “Ripple Trim and Preview Edit Custom Action – REAPER Dialogue Editing Quick Tip”

Joey Aguilera (tentaclejoe)

October 21, 2016

Awesome, thanks!

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Rob van Hees

October 21, 2016

Hey Jon, doing alot of dialogue editing @ work myself and this is an awesome speed-up in workflow.
Many thanks !!

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Mike Willis

October 21, 2016

The font is terrible on this page! hard to read. Good video tho..

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1. Admin
  
  October 21, 2016
  
  Hi Mike
  What browser are you using? This is how it should look –
  
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Eat This Podcast (@EatPodcast)

October 24, 2016

Thanks for this. I’ve had a custom action to move back to one second before the beginning of a time selection, and then playback skipping the selection. Then I cut and remove the time selection. I think this will be much quicker.

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Richard Greaney

November 16, 2016

What about using the custom action: Auto trim/split items (remove silence), then unselect “Preserve timing of non-silent areas” ? That’s what I’ve started using lately for my podcasts, since it would take ages to edit out the pauses by hand

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1. Admin
  
  November 16, 2016
  
  Interesting, I hadn’t noticed that action in the list before. With some trial and error I could probably get some use from this.
  “it would take ages to edit out the pauses by hand” It’s still very worth the time to listen and make sure everything flows well. Don’t want to shortcut things too much and make the product worse.
  
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Eliott D

October 10, 2019

Hi 🙂
Small issue here : when I hit the command to “custom trim left action” it does cut and delete the part between the last split and the cursor position, but it does not move the right item close to the left one.
Any advice ?
Thank you in advance for the answer and keep it up, it’s super helpful !

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1. Admin
  
  October 10, 2019
  
  Hi Eliott
  Ripple editing mode needs to be enabled from the main toolbar.
  
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  1. Eliott D
    
    October 13, 2019
    
    thank’s a lot !
    definitely going to patreon as soon as I have a regular income
    
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