How do you cut a file short?

[bender5]

This might have been answered before, but I am curious how do you cut a file short. I could step the whole thing, but it would get really repetitive. So FFR I ask of you how should I go about making my file end sooner?

[trumaestro]

Re: How do you cut a file short?

Step what you want of the song and stop stepping it. Stepmania will bring up the "Cleared" screen once there aren't anymore steps.

[bender5]

Re: How do you cut a file short?

That would work fine if the file wasn't for FFR lol

[Yesssss]

Re: How do you cut a file short?

Use an audio editing program such as Audaticy.

[bender5]

Re: How do you cut a file short?

Thanks I'll try that out.

[ElectricWerewolf]

Re: How do you cut a file short?

FFR cuts off everything after the last arrow, so you won't actually need to mess with the mp3. Though maybe get Audacity anyways since it's a generally useful program.

EDIT: Silvuh pretty much covered everything. Simfile makers, heed his words.

[Silvuh]

Re: How do you cut a file short?

Even though song stops after the steps stop, that also means the music will stop suddenly... I'm pretty sure Be Princess does this. The music goes for a bit after the last step.

You might want to open the song in audacity and put a fade out at the end or something to make it sound nicer. Oh, and if you want to export the file as an .mp3, you'll have to download lame_enc.dll.

And when Audacity exports an .mp3, it will add, I think, a fortieth pf a second of silence at the beginning. However much it adds, you can open the new .mp3 in Audacity... zoom in around the first sound, and it's an easy way to find the offset of a song. (And if this offset doesn't work, you could change the rate on SM to .3x or .1x and find it.)

Oh, and you can add two seconds of silence to the beginning of the song so that way you won't have to not step the beginning to follow the FFR "Don't step the first two seconds of the song" rule.

[bender5]

Re: How do you cut a file short?

Thank you very much to all of you. My file is now finished. FGO fest here I come >;D

[Corbinek]

Re: How do you cut a file short?

i use vegas 7 to cut audio stuff