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Concepts of sound
Latency: delay between input and output
Frequency: Measured in Hz. Describes the number of cycles per second. (For example, a 1000Hz waveform has 1000 cycles per second.) The higher the frequency, the higher the musical
pitch.
Amplitude: Measured in db. Reflects the change in pressure from the peak of the waveform to
the trough. High-amplitude waveforms are loud; low-amplitude waveforms are quiet.
Sample rate
Quality level
Frequency range
11,025 Hz
05,512 Hz
22,050 Hz
011,025 Hz
32,000 Hz
016,000 Hz
44,100 Hz
CD
022,050 Hz
48,000 Hz
Standard DVD
024,000 Hz
96,000 Hz
Blu-ray DVD
048,000 Hz
Bit depth: Determines dynamic range. Higher bit depth provides more possible amplitude
values, producing greater dynamic range, a lower noise floor, and higher fidelity. We use more
than 16, hopefully 32 bit.
Go to Finder: Drag files from audio folder onto the Files window in Audition. This will import
the files into your project.
You can also click on the Import file icon in the Files window, go to the File Import
File...menu on the menu bar, or just type Command I
If you import a file with a different sample rate, you might be asked to make a copy of the file
to conform to the session.
Drag your files onto the appropriate track to edit.
Grouping clips
-Use the Move tool (v) to select the clips you want to group either by drawing a marquee
around them or by Command-clicking to add or subtract clips from the group.
-Go to Clips Groups Group clips
Time Selection Tool
Select the Time Selection tool to edit out mistakes or unwanted portions of the clip.
Click and drag to select the portion to delete, or position the playhead and use the I and O keys
to set in and out points for the selection. This only works with the Time Selection tool, not the
Move or Razor blade tools.
You can hit the Delete key to preserve the gap or hit Option-Delete (also known as Ripple
Delete) to collapse the gap.
In the top-left corner of the Editor window, you will see a U-shaped magnet.
You can also use the Time Selection tool (t) to make internal edits.
Toggling this button will turn snapping on and off. This tool snaps the clips together
and helps align clips.
Trimming a clip
When you position the mouse over the beginning or end of a clip, you will see a red square
bracket indicating that you can trim or extend a clip.
Audio mixing
The yellow line represents the Volume of the clip. With the Move tool, you can grab this line
and move
it up or down to increase or decrease a clips volume.
Note that each track has a Volume control (located under the track name) that sets the overall
output
level of that channel. This works together with the yellow line on each clip to set the tracks
volume.
Crossfade
Move the two clips to the same track and
drag them to overlap each other. Two
yellow lines will intersect, showing you the
crossfade.
Exporting
Make sure to Mute the Working track so that it isnt included in your exported file.
Set in and out points to determine the portion to export.
Go to File Export Multitrack Mixdown Time Selection...
In the Files panel at the upper left of the Audition workspace youll see the list of open files. On the right you should
see the waveform for whichever file is highlighted in the files panel. You will also see the name of the open file in
the top tab of the Editor panel (above the waveform and timeline).
(You can always open additional audio files while editing your story by following the steps above but make sure
you have copied/moved the files into the correct folder before opening them in Audition.)
You can adjust the beginning and end of the selection by dragging on the in/out point in the timeline above the
waveform.
To sample your audio selection, be sure the loop playback function is turned on in the playback controls below the
waveform.
Then hit the Space Bar on the keyboard. Audition will keep playing your selection over and over until you hit the
space bar again to stop it. Keep adjusting and testing until you have a nice clean soundbite selected.
To isolate the selected soundbite for use in your story, right click (or Control+click) anywhere on the waveform. In
the pop-up menu, choose Copy to New (or go under EDIT menu to Copy to New).
Now youll see the waveform for your soundbite in its own, untitled audio file.
Double-click on the waveform to highlight the whole thing. Then go under EFFECTS menu to Amplitude and
Compression >> Normalize (Process)
In the window that appears, set it to Normalize to 85% and click OK.
If your waveform was thin before, youll see it gets much wider. Doing this with each of your clips will make your
finished story come out with better consistency in the volume levels.
Save this soundbite by going under FILE to Save (or type Command + S).
Soundbites are usually named with the speakers last name and a number, i.e. Hurt01.mp3.
Click BROWSE to navigate to the folder where all the other audio for this story is saved. This new file should go in
there with the rest of them.
Format should be mp3. Click OK. If it gives you a note about saving to a compressed format, click Yes.
audio files).
-Click OK
This will open a new session file in the multitrack mode:
Keep doing this until all of your soundbite clips are assembled in the right order in one track. (Any space in between
your clips in the Track will come out as silence, so close the gaps by placing the clips right next to each other, but
without overlapping them.)
You can rearrange the order of the clips by dragging the blocks around in the tracks.
You can listen to your assembled story by positioning the yellow playhead in the timeline above the tracks and using
the play controls at the bottom of the screen and/or the space bar on the keyboard (the same way you did in the
Waveform mode).
Audition will automatically add a new audio file to the list in your Files panel and return you to the Waveform
mode, where a single waveform for the entire story will be displayed. Give it a listen.
If you like it, then go under FILE to Save. Use the same settings you did for your individual soundbites, but make
sure the finished story file name is all lowercase with no spaces or punctuation and save the finished story in a folder
on the Classes server.
It should be easy to see where you left pauses in the narration waveform.
In the toolbar at the top, select the Razor Selected Clips Tool.
Then click at the pause points on the Narration clip in Track 2 to slice the narration where the soundbites go:
Using the Move tool, space out the elements of your story so the soundbites and narration are offset and no longer
overlap each other:
Use a the same basic idea on Track 3 to incorporate natural sounds into the piece.
Once you have arranged everything, give it a listen and adjust as needed. When everything is good, go back to Step
5 above and export your finished piece.
Create silence
Creating silence is useful for inserting pauses and removing nonessential noise from an audio file.
Adobe Audition provides two ways to create silence:
To mute existing audio in the Waveform Editor, select the desired content, and choose Effects
> Silence. Unlike deleting or cutting a selection, which splices the surrounding material
together, muting leaves the duration of the selection intact.
To add silence in the Waveform or Multitrack Editor, either position the current-time indicator or
select existing audio. Then choose Edit > Insert >Silence, and enter the number of seconds. Any
audio to the right is pushed out in time, lengthening duration. Multitrack clips are split if
necessary.
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To achieve the best results with the Noise Reduction effect, apply it to audio with no DC offset.
With a DC offset, this effect may introduce clicks in quiet passages. (To remove a DC offset,
choose Favorites > Repair DC Offset.)
A Drag control points to vary reduction in different frequency ranges B Low amplitude noise. C High amplitude
noise D Threshold below which noise reduction occurs.
long.
To select noise in a specific frequency range, use the Marquee Selection tool. (See Select
spectral ranges.)
2Choose Effects > Noise Reduction/Restoration > Capture Noise Print.
3In the Editor panel, select the range from which you want to remove noise.
4Choose Effects > Noise Reduction/Restoration > Noise Reduction.
5Set the desired options.
When recording in noisy environments, record a few seconds of representative background noise
that can be used as a noise print later on.
Extracts a noise profile from a selected range, indicating only background noise. Adobe Audition
gathers statistical