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Introduction to Adobe Audition CS6
Pre-‐Audition Instructions 1. Before you record yourself or an interview using your Zoom recorder, make sure you
record a “soundbed” (at least 30 seconds), the natural ambient noise of the room without anyone talking. You use these soundbeds between clips when things are silent so the emptiness between clips sounds natural.
2. Save copies of your original, unedited soundfiles somewhere else. On a thumbdrive, email, desktop. That way if you accidentally edit them poorly you can always go back to the originals.
3. Audition lets you do two types of editing: destructive (which permanently changes the original file) and non-‐destructive (doesn’t mess with the original audio files). By in large we will be trying to stick with non-‐destructive editing, which is why we will try to almost always edit in the multi-‐track window.
I. Folder Structure 1. Create a project folder on the desktop. Call it lastname_assignment2mainfolder. Save it to your
external hard drive. 2. Never save anything to anywhere but this project folder. 3. For the sake of your sanity—label all your files with descriptive names like
radiolab_walrus_clip. Not the names that are pre-given like 187627fd.wav. 4. You are assembling your files in a multitrack session. Audition is a non-destructive editing
software, so your edits and volume changes in multitrack donʼt change the original files. This means your multitrack has to reference the original files each time it opens. If they arenʼt exactly where they were the last time you opened your session, they will show up BLANK in multitrack. Yes, you can “link” them (tell the session where to find them), if you need to. But you wonʼt need to, because you will follow my advice and ALWAYS keep your files and multitrack together.
II. Starting a New Project 1. The first thing is to create a multitrack Session for editing. There are two ways to do it:
• Click on multitrack in upper left, or • File>New>Multitrack Session
2. When you create a new multitrack session, Audition will ask you to enter in some options: • Name your project (please use the format lastname_assignment2):
Kurlinkus_assignment2 • Folder location: Save to your external hard drive to the folder you created • Template: “Podcast”
3. Move a sound file into the window by dragging and dropping it into the files window in Audition.
• You can also click on the Import file icon in the Files window; go to the File>Import File on the menu bar; or just type Command I
• You’ll notice several pre-‐created tracks. Host (where you put audio of yourself talking), interview (where you put audio of your ripped interviews), music bed (your music), and master (where you edit the sound of everything together at the same time).
• You can also add a new track: multitrack>track>add new stereo or duplicate. And then add audio by multitrack>insertfiles
• To delete a track, select it, and choose Multitrack > Track > Delete Selected Track. • You may want to rename the tracks to something more specific and meaningful to
your project. Do so by clicking on the track name and typing. • Sometimes it’s nice to have one empty track at the top called “working track” where
you perform all your edits. Delete this working track before exporting your final mp3.
III. Basic Editing A. Deleting sections of a track 1. Like in Photoshop, the move tool allows you to move tracks around.
2. Move the audio file you want to edit to the “working track” track. Click on the track you want to edit with the move tool. If an individual track is not
highlighted, you will edit all the tracks at once.
3. Use the razor tool (the icon that looks like a razor or press r) to divide tracks into segments that you want to use in your project. Delete the rest.
• You can also use the clip>split (command k)
4. Use the time selection tool (the I-beam icon, 2 to the right of the razor tool) to highlight the part of the track you want to delete.
• Hit delete to preserve the gap or shift-delete to close it. 5. 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. 6. To zoom in press +, to zoom out press -. Alternatively, use the zoom menu at the bottom of the
window (play with the different types of zooms as they are helpful). 7. Ripple Delete: Deleting the gap between clips. Right click on the gap, choose ripple delete>gap
B. Volume 1. To set a base-‐level audio for your podcast, I’d like you first to use the match clip volume
function. Right click on an individual track>match clip volume>-‐18LUFS (for speaking) -‐20 for music
2. To open up more volume editing options, pull the track vertically in the tracks information pane.
3. To adjust the volume of individual tracks or clips, use the yellow line across each track. Click on it with the move tool and drag it up or down to make the track louder or softer.
4. By clicking on this yellow bar you can add a “keyframe” or “soundpoint” (a yellow diamond). By adding multiple keyframes and adjusting the volume line up or down between them you can have the volume of the track rise and fall.
5. Fades. When transitioning between audio clips it is sometimes appropriate to add a fade in and out. To do this you can use soundpoints or use the fade in box (the transparent box that looks like a dog-eared sheet of paper at the beginning and end of each clip). Simply drag this semi-transparent box to adjust the fade.
IV. Exporting
• File>Export>Multitrack Mixdown>Entire Session. • In the Export Multitrack Mixdown dialog box, choose MP3 from the Format drop
down list. Click Browse and ensure the MP3��� will be saved to the project folder on your harddrive. Give your MP3 a name (lastname_Assignment2). For the purposes of our course, maintain the default Format Settings (MP3 192 Kbps CBR).
• Click OK to export your .mp3 to your thumb drive. The MP3 will appear in the project folder on your thumb drive as well the Files area of Audition.
V. Quickly Editing Down Copies of Your Original Files—Warning this is Destructive Editing and Will Alter Your Files Permanently 1. File > Open 2. Select the portion of the waveform you want to remove 3. Press Delete – repeat Steps 2 & 3 until your clean up is done 3. Apply Effects > Amplitude & Compression > Speech Volume Leveler 4. Save the file as a new name as to not write over your old file