AUDIO EDITOR: CHAPTER TWO 357Creating precise selectionsDuring your editing there will be times when you want to make a veryspecific selection, starting and ending at exact times, particularly if you areworking in conjunction with a video project in Video Editor. To makedetailed selections you need to view the Sample Information Window,opened by right-clicking on a toolbar and selecting the Sample Informa-tion Window command. (You can also click View: Toolbars & Panels.)The Sample Information Window tracks the movement of your mousepointer as you move it, displaying the precise point in the waveform wherethe pointer passes, as well as the highest and lowest amplitudes of thewaveform at that point. (If the times shown are not detailed enough, zoomin on the waveform.) The two values in the top box of the Sample Infor-mation Window indicate the starting and ending positions for the area yourcursor currently spans, which, depending on your zoom level, may be thesame or different. The bottom box (for stereo files there will be two, onefor each channel) indicates the negative and positive amplitudes in thatregion.Working with cuesCues are the best way to bookmark spots in a waveform that you want tofrequently reference or come back to and edit. Once a cue has beencreated, you can jump to it from anywhere in the waveform regardless ofwhere your cursor is located. Audio Editor also allows you to appendinformation to a cue so that you can denote certain features at that par-ticular point in the waveform (for example, marking the beginning of along monologue, or denoting the point of impact between two cars in ahigh speed chase).To place a cue:1. Click on the area in the waveform where you want to place a cue. (Youmay want to zoom in for a more accurate placement.)2. Click the Add Cue button on the Toolbar or click Control: Add Cue[ F 5 ] to open the Add Cue dialog box.
