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Adobe Audition CS5.5 is the ultimate recording, mixing, mastering, and editing
application that also features a fast, flexible round-trip workflow with Adobe Premiere Pro
including some other new features like our new high-performance audio
playback engine, faster start up, more responsive playback and editing,
and the ability to work concurrently on multiple files and sessions--not to mention the ability
to exchange projects with other NLEs and DAWs via OMF and FCP
XLM Interchange--really makes this application the complete audio package.
And the best part is it's now also available on the Mac.
So what you're seeing right now is this version on the Mac.
I'm going to take you through some of the interface and some of the features inside
Adobe Audition CS5.5.
Now one of the core things in Audition is that we have a Waveform View and a Multitrack View.
Currently we're in the Multitrack View and you can see that we have all of our tracks
layed out--we've got our Mute, Solo, and Record buttons.
We can play a bit of this back for you, and you can see we have our video display here
[Plays clip]
and of course, you can navigate this interface very easily.
The nice thing is, just like with Premiere, just like with After Effects,
the interface panels work exactly the same.
You can easily resize tracks, either individually or globally.
You can also scan through the entire interface very quickly with this portion bar up at the top.
You can switch over to your Mixer View, and if you wanted something like your
Multitrack and your Mixer side-by-side, you can simply grab the panel, dock it here,
and now you've got your Multitrack Mixer and effectively your Multitrack Editor living
side-by-side allowing you to make very quick, very easy changes--let's move this back.
Now when it comes time to actually mixing audio inside Audition,
and if we're taking audio from Premiere Pro, we follow several different methods.
Now if we were coming directly from an editing environment,
and if we're a video editor, we might be thinking in terms of Clip Effects.
Clip Effects literally are applied to individual clips.
So if I wanted to add something like, let's say, a reverb to this voice here,
I can twirl down here, choose Reverb, go to something like Studio Reverb--let's go
ahead and solo this voice track--this dialogue track--like this--quick playback,
[Plays clip]
and you can see now that we've just added, in real time, a reverb to simply, only that clip.
Now if we wanted to apply a reverb to all the tracks--to all of the vocal clips-to all of the
dialogue clips in this track--we would then go to Track Effects,
and this more commonly follows the way that most DAWs--Digital Audio Workstations--work.
So you've got two different methods of how you actually apply effects,
again, making it very easy no matter what environment you're coming from.
Now, similarily, if you wanted to actually start editing this, we can
nondestructively edit in the Multitrack View.
Remember, that Audition has two editing methods.
When you're working in the Multitrack, we're doing everything nondestructively.
But if we want to destructively apply processes and filters or something
like noise reduction to a clip, we can double click on it,
bringing it into the Waveform View, and now, any process that we apply
is actually destructive--we're actually changing the original
file, and of course, we can save copies if we want to.
Now to just to show you a little bit--again, we have the portion bar at the top here so that
we can navigate through the interface--you'll notice that we have things like fade
handles so that we can fade the ins and the outs of the file.
This is just quick access to common everyday tasks for for you audio clips,
and you'll see that it'll actually re-draw the waveform as we make these changes.
There's your Fade in--there's your Fade out.
You've also got your on clip volume so we can visually readjust the volume here.
And again, you've got the ability to add your effects and so on and so forth.
Now if we take a listen to this dialogue clip,
[Plays clip]
we can hear that there's lots of noise on this, and this is where I might
want to use and leverage some of the noise reduction filters in Audition.
This is really one of its biggest strengths, and it's very easy to do.
Now we can do it sort of in the traditional way where we try and find a
piece of noise--maybe something like this--and we highlight it,
and from there, we take a sample--and you can see Capture Noise Print available
in the right-click contextual menu.
However, we have something called the Spectral Frequency Display.
The Spectral Frequency Display allows you to see frequency over time
where we have frequency along our Y Vertical Access, and time along the X.
And now, as we actually zoom in, we can very clearly see--well, in these sections
down here--clearly, this is where people are talking, and where he's paused,
you can see nothing--just dead space.
So what this enables us to do is actually see where the noise lives, so that
we can selectively and very accurately choose
just the sections that are noise only to get the best
profiles that we can de-noise these files.
This has been one of the core competencies of Audition for years,
it still exists, and again, it's now on the Mac.
So I can make a selection--you'll also notice that I'm using Photoshop-style tools,
we have our Lasso Selection Tool, Paintbrush, Spot Healing Brush, and the Marquee.
For this example, I'll use the Marquee.
I can make a selection like this: Right click, capture my noise print,
go up to our Effects Menu/Noise Reduction/Process,
and now I can begin previewing my noise reduction.
The first thing I'll typically do is select the entire file,
and then I can adjust my noise reduction sliders here to a specific amount--
let's use about 80% reduction--go ahead and twirl that advance where you'll see
we have all different types of settings--I'm going to set this one to around zero--
click Apply, you'll see that it processes very, very quickly.
Again, one of the new features of Audition CS5.5.
And now when we play this clip back,
[Plays clip]
the noise is virtually removed.
Now remember, what you're seeing here, color equals amplitude.
So here's the before with the noise,
and you can see all of these bright red amber areas--
that's indicating that there's lots of noise on this clip.
If we go ahead and redo the noise reduction, now you can see that they're virtually black.
So the way that this works is the brighter the color, or the closer the color is to
yellow or white, the louder the amplitude at that particular frequency.
So this is all dialogue hovering around 1-2K--it's bright, it's amber, it's loud.
The noise that was all that purple-red stuff living in this range here--2K to 10K--
previously it was red and purple, now it's black.
The closer it is to black means it's quieter--it's softer.
So, visually, we're able to use Photoshop-style tools
to remove noise very effectively and accurately.
And you can work this way with applying any kind of effect--not just noise reduction.
But if you're mastering--if you're wanting to use any one of our numerous compressors
or limiters--one of my favorites happens to be the Multiband Compressor.
You can choose this--you can actually make a selection in the Frequency space,
and only apply the compressor to those select areas very simply.
And also, if you wanted to do something like a Healing Spot--let's say
that you had a click or a pop--just like the Healing Brush in Photoshop,
we can take the Spot Healing Brush here, we can adjust our brush size--
let's size it down to around 15--or maybe even 11--that's fine.
And if we don't like this little piece right here, we can simply select it,
it processes, and it's gone.
Just like in Photoshop, we're using our eyes to do noise reduction, effects processing,
all kinds of processes very, very easily.
So once again, this is just some of the things that you can do inside the Editor.
You'll also notice that you have a portion bar, here, so that you can visually see
the Waveform View and the Spectral Frequency Display simultaneously.
Now one of the other things that I love about Audition are the diagnostics.
It's often been referred to as the After Effects of Audio.
And the reason for that is that you have so many different ways to look at
and analyze the audio in your clips.
One of my favorite things is the Frequency Analysis Panel,
which is now also supported in Multitrack as well.
This happens to be a mono file, so if we play this back,
[Plays clip]
you can see that we're getting a real-time analysis of all of the active frequencies--of
the amplitude of the frequencies--in this Frequency Analysis Panel.
And this can be very usefulif you're trying to track down, again, hum
or other kinds of consistent noises that are resonating throughout the entire audio file.
But probably my favorite panel, and the one I use on every audio file that I process,
is this one here--Amplitude Statistics.
Because quite simply, this is going to tell you everything that you need to know
about your audio file including peak amplitude, sample values, clip samples, the
actual bit depth, the dynamic range, and the
RMS amplitude, or more commonly referred to as the loudness.
How loud is this? How do we perceive this file?
So this is really all the stuff that you need if you're delivering files for
broadcasts, if you're delivering files for DVD--you need to know these things.
And in a single click, you can access all those settings
very easily and make any associated changes.
Now when you're working in a video environment, very commonly you might be
de-noising or processing or using any one of our many filters.
We also even have surround reverb, because remember, you can also process
and record and mix in 5.1 Surround and send that media to Premiere Pro.
But if you have lots of files like the ones that we see in our Multitrack here,
it's quite common that you might want to process all of them with the
same effects or the same filters or the same noise reduction, and you can
do that leveraging batch processing.
Now batch processing on lots of files can often take a lot of time.
But one of the things that we've done with our new optimized engine inside of Audition
is we allow you to batch process--you'll actually see the status of the files
processing--but you can keep on working,
and you can work on other sessions while it's doing that.
So let's go ahead and actually do that--going to go up to our Edit Menu
and choose Batch Process.
And now, just like you've seen in the other applications in Production Premium,
I can simply take a series of audio files--and let's grab some of these here--some of these
clip audio files--let's grab a whole bunch of them
and drag and drop them into the Batch Processor.
Okay. I've got dozens of them--great.
So now we can go into Batch Process, we can apply a favorite,
and you'll see that under Favorites, again, we have lots of presets.
This is pointing to a lot of common processess--De-Essing--so if you have a lot
of dialogue that's very sibilant, this preset here--this favorite--will take care of that.
Fade In, Fade Out, Hard Limiting, Normalizing, Removing DC Offsetters, 60 Cycle Hum--
or 50 Cycle Hum, if you're in other parts of the world--you can use and create
these favorites to process all of these files simultaneously.
So let's just go ahead and normalize all of these to say, minus three.
You can choose a file name prefix is so desired or just keep the file names the same.
You choose the location where you want them to go.
You can choose the format and we'll keep these at Windows PCM Wave.
You'll see you also have the options for AIF, MP3, and Quick Time.
Choose the format--in this case we'll leave it uncompressed 32-bit floating point.
32-bit floating point is in fact the native file format for Audition.
So no matter what you bring in, it's always processing
in 32-bit floating point--much like Premiere.
Let's go ahead and click okay, and it starts processing.
And you can see that it's so fast, it's done!
I don't even have time to go to the other sessions--that's how
quickly the Batch Processors works.
The key here is that you can continue to batch process and work in the background,
and you'll see, of course, we have multiple sessions open.
So if I want to start working on my Trailer Session, I can pull my video window back
up here, scrub through this, let's play it,
[Plays clip]
we can go to our 5.1 Session, so here
we're building out an actual 5.1 multichannel session, we're going to create
an Interleaved Multichannel file which we can then leverage in Premiere Pro--
you can see it here and you can see our multichannel metering down below.
[Plays clip]
But what if we actually want to take all this and use this in another DAW?
Or use this in another Editor?
Or perhaps we want to bring in content from another DAW or Editor.
Well, we can do that, as mentioned earlier, via OMF and FCP XML Interchange.
So right here if we go under the Export Menu, you'll see that you have the option to export--
get yor Multitrack's Menu down, the session, FCP XML Interchange or OMF.
So whether you're on the Mac or the PC, if you're looking for a power-house
audio application that will allow you to record, to mix, to master for CD or Blu-ray,
to master for the Web, to master your audio from mobile devices, or to take
your session files from other Editors or other DAWs, or Premiere Pro,
and fix and master and clean up and restore audio and send it back,
you can do all of that in Adobe Audition CS5.5 whether you're on the Mac
or the PC--it's all there, it's fast, it's powerful, and it will change the way you work with audio.
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