[CustomDigi]

Hi everyone,

I am working on a project that I would normally do in either pro tools or cubase, but since I have jumped over to logic 8 for my composing, I basically forced myself to do this particular project in Logic for the sake of education...I would love to get adept with the audio editing features in Logic and figured this might be a good opportunity.

The project is a 60 minute radio drama that was tracked on about 10 tracks, in pro tools. I have since imported everything into Logic (no problem of course since all tracks were bounced from the same place in pro tools) and run the strip silence, so I have a ton of regions of speech across the 10 tracks. Now I am adding in sound effects, music, etc...still no problems.

Here is where it gets dicey for me:

When dialogue needs to be tightened across two tracks...for example, one character needs to 'interrupt' the other...is there any -easy- way, or mode, that allows me to slide back the audio on track 4 (for example), and have every other region on every other track, that is beyond this point, move back by the same amount -- keeping their relationship with the other tracks? Editing with track groups doesn't seem to do the trick...it only moves selected regions across the groups...I want it to compensate for the empty space on the tracks between regions, too, if that makes any sense.

Maybe there is a key command or something that I am overlooking that makes this an easier process...it is a pain to have to lasso every region in the project each time I want to nudge one region....

Any advice on the best way to accomplish this would be welcome! Also I was wondering if this Soundtrack Pro 2 might be a better tool for this kind of work...I would be game for that if it is easier.

Thanks in advance,
Matt C.
Fort Lauderdale