How does Narrafix handle retakes of longer passages?

Narrafix Auto-Cut is designed to automatically detect and replace retakes — but there is an important technical detail to understand when repeating longer passages.

🎯 The context window for retakes

Narrafix uses a defined context window of approximately two minutes to detect repeated passages.

Why? Because extending this window further would significantly increase the risk of false positives — meaning parts of the audio could be incorrectly interpreted as retakes when they are not.

So the system balances accuracy and reliability by limiting the detection range.

🔁 What happens when you repeat a passage?

✅ If the repeated passage is under ~2 minutes (e.g. 1:50 min)

• Narrafix will detect the repetition.
• It will automatically select the second (final) take.
• It will also apply normal Auto-Cut improvements inside that take (removing small errors, pauses, etc.).

In this case, everything works exactly as expected.

⚠️ If the repeated passage is longer than ~2 minutes

If you repeat a longer section (for example 3–4 minutes):

• Narrafix may not interpret the entire section as one retake.
• Both versions may remain in the edit.
• However, Auto-Cut will still clean up mistakes within each individual passage.

This is intentional and prevents incorrect large-scale deletions.

✂️ What if both passages remain?

If you notice that both versions are still present:

1. Open your project in Narrafix Studio.
2. Locate the repeated section in the waveform.
3. Simply remove the entire passage you don’t want to keep.
4. Keep the preferred version.

This can be done quickly and non-destructively inside Studio.