Audacity: Split a Clip

Audacity: Split a Clip

Splitting a clip allows us to move it around the timeline or different audio tracks and make certain edits and changes without worrying about accidentally doing it to the rest of the audio.

1

In our audio clip, hover the cursor over the audio track at the point where we want to split the clip. We should see an I icon (image right).

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I icon on an audio track
2

Left-click and we should see a black line appear.

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Highlighting the playback head line

 

3

Right-click and select Split Clip or use CTRL+I or CMD+I to split the clip.

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Highlighting the Split Clip option

 

4

Now we have a split clip.

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Highlighting the new split between the clips