CLIPPER is JAGUAR’s internal sound editor that can be used to create audio clips from wideband recordings.
When you have the relevant audio material in the CLIPPER window, you can play/edit/process the clip before saving it (see options below). The clip name is of the standard Jaguar format unless you have defined your own CLIPNAME parameter in the [CUSTOM] section of JAGUAR.INI. The clip name is displayed on the bottom of the CLIPPER window, and this name can be edited. But do not change the WAV/MP3 suffix here, go to the CLIPPER menu > FORMAT to do that.
CLIPPER can be started during the playback by pressing the C key or by clicking the TOOLBAR > SCISSORS icon, or from the STATION MENU > CLIPPER. Another press or click on the relevant key/icon/menu will stop the flow of the audible sound to the CLIPPER editor window. You can also click STOP on the CLIPPER menu. If you want, you can add more than one segment of audio to the same clip, using any of the ways described above to start CLIPPER.
You can play the audio clip by clicking on PLAY in the menu, or by clicking the waveform in the editor window at any position. You can also highlight an area in the waveform to limit the playback or editing to that specific area. Clicking the waveform outside the highlighted area will remove the highlight. If you edit the waveform without highlighting any particular area, the entire audio clip will be subject to these edits.
The CLIPPER menu contains the following options:
• FORMAT: Select the audio clip format for the locally saved clip. Note: FILEMAIL/CLOUD clips are always sent as MP3.
• RESTORE: Cancel all edits you have made and restore the original audio clip.
• FADE: Standard fade function.
• VOLUME+: Increase the amplitude.
• VOLUME-: Decrease the amplitude.
• COPY>TAIL: Copy the highlighted area to the end of the clip.
• CROP: Keep the highlighted area, delete the rest.
• CLEAR: Clear the editor window (if no area is highlighted), or delete the highlighted area.
• TOOLS: Move CLIPPER slightly downward to reveal SLIDER.
• UNDO: Undo the last edit.
When you finalized your edits, you have the following save options in the menu:
• SAVE AS: Select the save folder manually. While saving, you can still change the clip file name.
• SAVE: Save your clip to the CLIPS folder in your JAGUAR folder. You can override the default location with the CLIPFOLDER parameter in the [CUSTOM] section of JAGUAR.INI.
• SEND>CLOUD: Send the clip either to the JAGUAR cloud or to the user's own cloud, if available.
• SEND>FILEMAIL: Send the clip to another JAGUAR user to another computer, using the user’s JAGUAR ID.
If you want to log the station heard in the audio clip, you can jump directly to LOGBOX by clicking on LOGGER in the CLIPPER menu (but in order to be able to do that, you must have started CLIPPER from the STATION MENU).
CLIPPER contains also a surgical tool for bit fiddlers to get the maximum out of the audio:
• If an audio area has been highlighted in CLIPPER, it can be zoomed in, even to the sample level. Use the mouse wheel or the left/right arrow keys to switch between FULL AREA, RED AREA, and GREEN AREA.
• The GREEN area is the lowest level. You can move the mouse and position the area to the desired audio peak: first, click once to lock the position, then increase or decrease the width of the GREEN area with the mouse wheel or the left/right arrow keys.
• You can use the FADE button to eliminate "runaway peaks" (= fade in/ fade out for the RED and GREEN areas)
• The GREEN area is actually a low-level sample microscope. It supports sample correction on individual samples, i.e. FADE is applicable even to one single sample in the audio, which can be useful in eliminating harmful clicks if JAGUAR’s default internal CLICK REMOVER (CR) consumes useful audio too much.
You can close CLIPPER by clicking EXIT or by right-clicking the CLIPPER window.