Click on any phrase to play the video from that point.
[CS6]
[Ellen Wixted] [Sr. Product Manager, Pro Video & Audio] Hi, I'm going to show you
some of the new features in Audition CS6 that can really make a big difference
in your audio for video workflows.
I'm going to start my project over here in Premiere
with a really simple edit that we shot in the neighborhood in Seattle
where Adobe's offices are.
We've got Durin here, and he's talking about ADR, so let me go ahead and play this,
and take a listen to the audio, and while you're listening
notice that the new mixer panel and the audio levels
meter have both been redesigned in Premiere CS6.
Okay, so let's go ahead and play back that video.
ADR can just be a fact of life when you're shooting on location.
The new align speech tools in Adobe--
Okay, that gives you a sense of what we're up against,
but before we go over into Premiere I want to talk really briefly
about some of the things that we've added in Premiere
that really make a big difference, so I've actually used
the warp stabilizer to stabilize these 2 shots,
so let me go ahead and turn that back on,
and you can see a lot of the M1 and camera movement that we got
when we shot that was taken care of.
I've also created a graded version of this sequence
using the new Adobe SpeedGrade,
and it makes it really fast and easy to take your projects from
kind of looking like that to looking really much more filmic,
and frankly, more beautiful.
Let's give the audio in this project the same treatment.
Let me use the Edit in Audition command to send this sequence
over to Audition so I can do some work on the audio.
We've got the ability to export a preview video,
which in this case because we're going to be doing ADR work
is absolutely critical.
We also have the ability to turn on or off the Open in Audition option
so that if I were handing this off to somebody else to do this work for me
I'd easily be able to package that up.
Let me go ahead and hit cancel, and we'll go over to Audition,
and you can see we've got the clips there,
and you can tell just by looking at them that the volume levels don't match at all,
so I'm going to go ahead and use the Match Clip Volume command,
and you'll notice here that we've added support for the ITU loudness standard,
and what that allows you to do is make sure that if you're making a commercial
or some other kind of content that it's in compliance with the new standards
for broadcast loudness.
Let me go ahead and click okay, and you can see that it actually
dropped this one down significantly while raising the level of the second clip,
so now if I play that in Audition
they're at least sort of in the same neighborhood.
They still sound terrible, but we can fix that too.
Let me switch over to the media browser here,
and this is another new feature that we've added in Audition,
so let me find my demo assets here,
and I've actually got a really nice little ability
to create shortcuts to the projects that I'm working on.
And I'm going to click over here, and we'll just use the reading phrase,
so let me go ahead and start back at the beginning.
ADR can just be a fact of life--
And you can tell looking at that that the lip movements aren't aligning at all
with the audio, so I'm going to use the new automatic speech alignment
command in Audition to make sure that those sync up.
But I'm going to start by breaking this into a couple of smaller clips,
and I'm doing that because speech alignment works best
in Audition if the files that you're starting with are roughly the same size.
Let me go ahead and select those two, and I'll run that.
What's nice about the speech alignment is that you've got the ability
to sort of tell it whether you would prefer to have tight alignment
or smoother stretching or sort of a middle road,
and I'm going to go ahead and choose that here,
and I'll just go ahead and click okay, and you can see it's really, really fast.
Let me do that with the second clip.
We'll go ahead and set that up.
Okay, so let's go back to the beginning
and see how well it lines up.
ADR can just be a fact of life when you're shooting on location.
The new align speech tools in Adobe Audition CS6
really take a lot of the hassle out of--
Okay, so that sounds great, and we've got a nice, clean dialogue track,
but these clips were clearly shot on location,
and I want to be able to drop in some wild sound that I recorded,
so I actually logged this project using the new Adobe Prelude,
and part of what I did as I was logging was identify
some clips that I could use for the wild soundtrack.
I've gone ahead and in a separate session mixed those down,
so I'm going to just drop those in there, and let me select this
and trim it down so it's roughly the same length.
There we go.
Okay, and we'll go ahead and turn this one on as well,
and then we can adjust.
That's a little loud, so we'll drop that down.
Okay, so with a minimum amount of effort I've gone ahead
and replaced the dialogue track, and we've got the wild sound,
and so now that I'm largely done with my project
I'm going to go ahead and choose Export to Premiere Pro,
and I'm going to mix this down as a stereo file and go ahead and do that,
and you can see it almost instantly is back over in Premiere.
I could add this as a new audio track, but instead I'm just going to drop it
into the audio 2 track and turn off the original,
and we'll go back to the beginning and see how much better this piece looks
and sounds because of the new features that we've added in CS6.
You can see with a minimum amount of time and effort
I've been able to significantly improve the quality of my audio
for this really simple little project.
We think CS6 is going to be a huge release because it makes doing
simple projects like this as well as more complex ones
much faster and much easier.
[Adobe]
