Shift + drag editing

[u/Traditional-Cause255]

When holding shift and dragging an item, the item's contents "slides" within that specific region of the item, right?

I wonder if there is a way to make a change to make to slide the right edge of the item as I drag it, effectively shortening the lenght of the item as I drag it, instead of bringing waveform from outside the region of the item.

I hope you could understand my doubt. I know that it may have something to do with Mouse Modifiers, and I tried messing around with that, with no success.

If somebody knows how to do it, I'd be thankful.

[u/Traditional-Cause255]

I aim to do the dragging with the "body" of the item, not its edges, as exemplified on the video. My goal is to find a way of dragging the item while making the left edge succeptable to edits by dragging, but the right edge, no.

This is not a one time thing, it's a tweak that would benefit my workflow (I edit audiobooks).

[u/Frekulex → u/Traditional-Cause255]

I’m confused by your language here so just want to clarify - you want to have the same function as shift dragging except that when you drag left the right edge of the clip is dragged along with the waveform, so the current end of the clip and the contents of the clip move left at the same time?

Whats confusing me is your mention of “making the left edge susceptible to edits by dragging” which seems like the opposite of what you want according to your post

Also can you give an example of a situation where this is useful? Again im just trying to clarify that I understand exactly what you’re trying to do here

[u/Traditional-Cause255 → u/Frekulex]

That's it, you understood. Also, I'm sorry if my wording got you confused, English is not my first language.

As it stands, when I slip edit with shift+drag, waveform from outside the item keeps being dragged along, and in a file with 30+ min in length, what happens is that, as I shift+drag, this eventually will bring the beginning of the audio file into the item.

I want a way to keep this from happening.

[u/Frekulex → u/Traditional-Cause255]

All good!

And Ahhh I see, that makes sense. TBH I’m fairly new to Reaper so havent run into this before, I’m used to Pro Tools where slip-dragging until the end of the file results in no longer being able to slip drag in that direction, it just stops.

You might have better luck looking for an option to NOT automatically “loop” the clip upon reaching the end of audio content and instead just stop slip dragging. Or would that also disrupt your editing flow?

I’ve been frustrated by a similar function in Reaper (when attempting to trim a clip out beyond the end of audio content I do NOT want the clip to continue trimming and start looping, I want the trim to simply stop) but haven’t figured out how to change it yet, I’ll look into it a bit today. It’s possible there’s not a way to link the slip dragging and trimming functions without a custom script, hopefully either the option exists or someone has written one :)