Extending and shortening musical selections

Background music often needs to be lengthened or shortened to fit a video’s duration. In this lesson you’ll lengthen a piece of music by copying one verse and extending it to create two verses.

1. Navigate to the Lesson03 folder, and open the file Ueberschall_PopCharts.wav. (“Pop Charts” is the name of a commercially available sound library from Ueberschall you can use to create your own royalty-free sound tracks and needledrop music.)

2. Start playback. The verse starts at about 7.5 seconds and ends around 23.2 seconds, where it changes key and goes into a bridge.

3. You need to define the precise verse beginning and end, copy that, and then insert it at the end of the first verse. Place the playhead at the approximate beginning of the verse (around 7.5 seconds).