Edit the Recording
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The edit screen enables you to make changes to the recording, rate the recording, and place verse markers on the chunk recordings.

Open the Edit Screen
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1.	On the Verse/Chunk Take Management bar, tap the **left or right arrows** to navigate to the take you want to edit. 
2.	Tap the **Waveform icon** on the Verse/Chunk Take bar to open the edit screen.

**Terms to Know**

* **Rewind** - go towards the beginning of the recording.
* **Fast forward** - go towards the end of the recording.


Compare the Recording to the Source Language Recording
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**NOTE**: Skip this step if you do not have a source audio available.

Follow these steps to compare your recording to the Source Language recording.

**First, listen to the Source Audio**:

1. Tap the **Hearing Ear** icon to switch to the Source Audio player.
2. Tap the **Play** icon on the gray bar.  

To pause the recording tap the **Pause** icon on the gray bar. (The pause icon replaces the play icon when the audio is playing.) 

Press-and-hold the green dot and slide your finger to the left for rewind or to the right to fast forward. 

**Then, listen to the recording**:

1. To playback your recording, tap the white **Play** icon on the blue bar.
2. To pause the playback of the recording, tap the **Pause** icon on the blue bar. (The pause icon replaces the play icon when the audio is playing.)

Tap the **Rewind** icon to go to the beginning of the recording or tap the fast forward icon to go end of the recording. 

Optional - Pause the playback and then press-and-hold in the black area of the recording screen to drag the playback spot for rewind or fast forward.

**You may go between listening to the source audio and listening to your recording.**


Remove a Section of the Recording 
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The action of removing a section of a recording is known as a 'cut.'

Mark a section for Deletion
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You position the recording on the blue line. **The blue line does not move.** The blue line is very thin and is at the beginning of the waveform.

There are 2 places to mark a section for deletion - the upper or the lower waveform window.

**In the upper waveform window:**

1. Position the audio at the thin blue line for the beginning of the section to be removed. You will need to do move the recording so that the blue line is where the cut should begin.

*  Use the press-hold-drag action in the waveform window to move the recording so that the blue line is at the beginning of the section to cut. 
*  Or tap Pause while listening to the recording when you reach the beginning of the section to cut.

2. Tap the flag icon. This inserts a marker where the cut will start.
3. In the upper waveform window, drag the recording by holding your finger on the screen and sliding to the left until the end of the part to be removed is at the blue line. Or tap the Pause icon while listening to the recording when you reach the end of the section to cut.
4. Tap the upside-down flag to mark the end of the section for deletion. 

Go to Make the Deletion section.

**In the lower waveform window:**

1. Tap and hold where you want the deletion to begin and then drag to where the end of the deletion should be. As you do so, the marked area is shown in both the upper and lower waveform areas and the flags are inserted automatically.
2. Resize the section marked by dragging the large flags on the large waveform window. 

**HINT**: You may want to check the selection by tapping the **Play** icon to listen to the section that will be removed. Move the flags to select the desired recording to be deleted.

Go to Make the Deletion section.

Make the Deletion (Cut)
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Now that you have the section marked that you want to delete, it’s time to make the cut.

**HINT**: You may want to check the selection by tapping the **Play** icon to listen to the section that will be removed. Move the flags to select the desired recording to be deleted.

**Question**: Do you want to change the amount of recording that is selected? 

  **Answer**: Press-hold-drag either large flag by its rounded part to increase or decrease the amount of the selected recording.

**Question**: Need to start again? 

  **Answer**: Tap the crossed-off flags icon to remove the flags and start over.

1.	Delete the selected recording by tapping on the scissors icon.

**Question**: Did you make a mistake? 

  **Answer**: Tap the undo icon (visible only after making a cut) to undo the last cut.

2. Continue selecting sections for deletion as necessary

3. Tap on the SD card icon to save the edit. 

BTT Recorder will return to Project Management.

Insert a New Section of A Recording
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Sometimes you may want to insert a missing part into the translation.

To insert a missing part into the translation:

1.	Position the audio at the thin blue line for where the new audio will be added in.  (Use the press-hold-drag action in the top waveform or tap in the bottom waveform section.)
2.	Tap the **Add a Recording** icon found on the right side of the top gray bar. This opens a new recording session.
3.	The bar at the bottom of the recording window is colored green. Tap the **Microphone** icon to start recording. 
4.	When finished, tap the **Pause** icon, or if you need to pause while recording, you can tap Pause and then tap the Microphone icon to resume. 
5.	To save and insert the new recording, tap the **Checkmark** icon. 
6.	A pop up appears stating it is inserting recording . . . please wait. The original target language recording opens with the added recording. 

**NOTE**: The window has been reset to begin at the beginning of the entire recording.

* Check that the inserted recording is correct and in the right place.
* Find the section that was added and play it in the main recording.
* To save the new recording, tap the **Save** icon. 

Once the program is done saving, it returns to the Project Management screen. The edited recording is saved as a new take.

**NOTE**: You may need to navigate to the Book/Project Management screen and then back to the Chapter Management screen for the additional take to show on the Verse Management bar.

Go to the next topic: `Editing - Rating <https://btt-recorder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/editing3.html>`_ to learn how to rate the recordings in BTT Recorder.