Is there a way to split music and not the video?

[HelpingSaveHumanity]

Hi there,

So sometimes the music I have that goes under my text slides is very short & I have to repeat it over & over again to cover all of the slides. At the end there's sometimes no sound, so I have to cut that part out so the music continues, but when I split that, I'm also splitting the video which doesn't hinder it, but it's kind of annoying when I play the video back in videopad, b/c it sort of skips around that mark. It doesn't skip when I export it & play it back on VLC, but it does in videopad & that always concerns me.

Is there any way to just cut the music (in videopad) without also cutting the video?

I figure not, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

Thanks

[Alan Hodkinson]

I find this a little niggling too

[borate]

It's unclear why it 'skips' but any single track can be split.  Click the SPLIT button and make the choice...

[Alan Hodkinson]

Thank you borate, I think I've sorted mine now, I wondered why sometimes it was OK and sometimes it wasn't, it was the way I was clicking

[HelpingSaveHumanity]

Ok, but when you find the spot & place the red bar there, it's on both the video & the music b/c I put the background music on a separate track (sorry, forgot to mention that part) so I can lower the volume, so I still don't see how you can only split the audio. Do I have to click on "split all audio tracks" even though it's just one?

Well it's more than one, but I have to do them one at a time, right? The software won't be able to cut the tail off of each of the same audio file, right b/c they are each at a different spot even though they are one after another.

Thanks

[borate]

At the position of the cursor (red line) any single or multiple tracks can be split with the SPLIT button.

Note the >.  It leads to sub-menus...     Check the ones that you want.

The red and blue [   ] brackets that pop on when the top of the cursor is clicked will trim the start and end of the project - all tracks. 

[HelpingSaveHumanity]

Ok, I'll have to remember to come back her & see if I can figure it out the next time I need to do it.

Thanks

[Alan Hodkinson]

The best thing, is just set it up and have a play, you can try all sorts of ideas, I do, and it's amazing what you find you can do by just playing