Section |
Page |
Legal notices |
2 |
Contents |
3 |
Chapter 1: What’s new |
5 |
Chapter 2: Digital audio fundamentals |
7 |
Understanding sound |
7 |
Sound waves |
7 |
Waveform measurements |
7 |
How sound waves interact |
8 |
Digitizing audio |
9 |
Comparing analog and digital audio |
9 |
Understanding sample rate |
9 |
Understanding bit depth |
10 |
Measuring amplitude in dBFS |
10 |
Audio file contents and size |
10 |
How Adobe Audition digitizes audio |
11 |
Chapter 3: Workspace and setup |
12 |
Viewing, zooming, and navigating audio |
12 |
Comparing the Waveform and Multitrack editors |
12 |
Basic components of the editors |
12 |
Switch editors |
13 |
Zoom audio in the Editor panel |
13 |
Navigate through time |
14 |
Navigate by scrolling |
15 |
Navigate with the Selection/View panel |
15 |
Customizing workspaces |
15 |
About workspaces |
15 |
Choose a workspace |
16 |
Dock, group, or float panels |
16 |
Resize panel groups |
18 |
Open, close, and scroll to panels |
19 |
Working with multiple monitors |
20 |
Display the toolbar |
20 |
Display the status bar |
20 |
Change interface colors, brightness, and performance |
21 |
Save, reset, or delete workspaces |
22 |
Connecting to audio hardware |
22 |
Configure audio inputs and outputs |
22 |
Assign file channels to inputs and outputs |
23 |
Customizing and saving application settings |
23 |
Customize preferences |
23 |
Restore preferences to default settings |
24 |
Export and import customized application settings |
24 |
Chapter 4: Importing, recording, and playing audio |
25 |
Creating and opening files |
25 |
Create a new, blank audio file |
25 |
Create a new multitrack session |
25 |
Open existing audio files and multitrack mixes |
26 |
Import a file as raw data |
26 |
Insert an audio file into a multitrack session |
27 |
Spot-insert a Broadcast Wave file into a session |
27 |
Importing with the Files panel |
27 |
Import files into the Files panel |
28 |
Insert from the Files panel into a multitrack session |
28 |
Change displayed metadata in the Files panel |
28 |
Supported import formats |
28 |
Audio file formats |
28 |
Video file formats |
29 |
Extracting audio from CDs |
30 |
Extract CD tracks with the Extract Audio From CD command |
30 |
Extract CD tracks with the Open command (Mac OS) |
30 |
Navigating time and playing audio |
31 |
Monitoring time |
31 |
Position the current-time indicator |
31 |
Preview audio by scrubbing |
32 |
Play audio linearly or in a loop |
32 |
Synchronize the current-time indicator across files or views |
32 |
Change the time display format |
33 |
Recording audio |
33 |
Record audio in the Waveform Editor |
34 |
Correct DC offset |
34 |
Direct-to-file recording in the Multitrack Editor |
34 |
Record audio clips in the Multitrack Editor |
34 |
Punch into a selected range in the Multitrack Editor |
35 |
Punch in during playback in the Multitrack Editor |
36 |
Choose punch-in takes |
36 |
Monitoring recording and playback levels |
36 |
Level meters overview |
36 |
Customize level meters |
37 |
Adjust recording levels for standard sound cards |
37 |
Chapter 5: Editing audio files |
39 |
Displaying audio in the Waveform Editor |
39 |
View audio waveforms and spectrums |
39 |
About the waveform display |
39 |
About the spectral display |
40 |
View layered or uniquely colored waveform channels |
41 |
Customize the spectral display |
41 |
Change the vertical scale |
42 |
Selecting audio |
42 |
Select time ranges |
42 |
Select spectral ranges |
43 |
Select artifacts and repair them automatically |
44 |
Select all of a waveform |
45 |
Specify which channels you want to edit |
45 |
Adjust a selection to zero-crossing points |
45 |
Snap to markers, rulers, frames, and zero crossings |
46 |
Copying, cutting, pasting, and deleting audio |
46 |
Copy or cut audio data |
46 |
Paste audio data |
47 |
Mix audio data when pasting |
47 |
Delete or crop audio |
47 |
Visually fading and changing amplitude |
47 |
Visually fade in or out |
48 |
Visually raise or lower amplitude |
49 |
Pin or hide the visual amplitude control |
49 |
Working with markers |
49 |
Add, select, and rename markers |
50 |
Adjust, merge, convert, or delete markers |
50 |
Save audio between markers to new files |
51 |
Creating playlists |
52 |
Inverting, reversing, and silencing audio |
52 |
Invert a waveform |
52 |
Reverse a waveform |
53 |
Create silence |
53 |
Analyzing phase, frequency, and amplitude |
53 |
Analyze phase |
53 |
Analyze frequency range |
54 |
Frequency Analysis options |
54 |
Zoom frequency graphs |
55 |
Analyze amplitude |
55 |
General options |
56 |
RMS Settings options |
56 |
Converting sample types |
57 |
Hear a file in a different sample rate |
57 |
Convert the sample rate of a file |
57 |
Convert a waveform between surround, stereo, and mono |
57 |
Change the bit depth of a file |
58 |
Use sample rate conversion presets |
59 |
Automating common tasks |
59 |
Favorites |
59 |
Match volume across multiple files |
60 |
Batch process files |
61 |
Undo, redo, and history |
62 |
Undo or redo changes |
62 |
Compare history states |
62 |
Chapter 6: Applying effects |
63 |
Effects controls |
63 |
Effects Rack overview |
63 |
Controls unique to the Waveform Editor |
63 |
Controls unique to the Multitrack Editor |
63 |
Set input, output, and mix levels in racks |
64 |
Insert, bypass, reorder, or remove effects in racks |
64 |
Use effect presets |
65 |
Control effect settings with graphs |
65 |
About spline curves for graphs |
65 |
Applying effects in the Waveform Editor |
66 |
Apply groups of effects in the Waveform Editor |
66 |
Apply individual effects in the Waveform Editor |
66 |
About process effects |
67 |
Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor |
67 |
Apply effects to clips or tracks |
67 |
Pre-render track effects to improve performance |
68 |
Insert effects before or after sends and EQ |
68 |
Adding third-party plug-ins |
69 |
Chapter 7: Effects reference |
71 |
Amplitude and compression effects |
71 |
Amplify effect |
71 |
Channel Mixer effect |
71 |
DeEsser effect |
71 |
Dynamics Processing effect |
72 |
Dynamics tab |
72 |
Settings tab |
73 |
Hard Limiter effect |
74 |
Multiband Compressor effect |
74 |
Normalize effect (Waveform Editor only) |
76 |
Single-band Compressor effect |
77 |
Speech Volume Leveler effect |
78 |
Tube-modeled Compressor effect |
78 |
Volume Envelope effect (Waveform Editor only) |
79 |
Delay and echo effects |
80 |
Analog Delay effect |
80 |
Delay effect |
81 |
Echo effect |
81 |
Diagnostics effects (Waveform Editor only) |
82 |
Diagnose and repair, delete, or mark audio |
82 |
DeClicker options |
83 |
DeClipper options |
83 |
Delete Silence and Mark Audio options |
84 |
Filter and equalizer effects |
84 |
FFT Filter effect |
84 |
Graphic Equalizer effect |
85 |
Parametric Equalizer effect |
86 |
Modulation effects |
87 |
Chorus effect |
87 |
Chorus/Flanger effect |
88 |
Flanger effect |
89 |
Phaser effect |
90 |
Noise reduction / restoration effects |
90 |
Techniques for restoring audio |
90 |
Noise Reduction effect (Waveform Editor only) |
91 |
Apply the Noise Reduction effect |
92 |
Noise Reduction options |
92 |
Adaptive Noise Reduction effect |
94 |
Automatic Click Remover effect |
94 |
Automatic Phase Correction effect |
95 |
DeHummer effect |
95 |
Hiss Reduction effect (Waveform Editor only) |
96 |
Reverb effects |
98 |
Convolution Reverb effect |
98 |
Full Reverb effect |
99 |
Reverb Settings |
99 |
Coloration options |
100 |
Output Level options |
100 |
Reverb effect |
101 |
Studio Reverb effect |
102 |
Surround Reverb effect |
102 |
Special effects |
103 |
Distortion effect |
103 |
Guitar Suite effect |
104 |
Mastering effect |
104 |
Vocal Enhancer effect |
106 |
Stereo imagery effects |
106 |
Center Channel Extractor effect |
106 |
Time and pitch manipulation effects |
107 |
Stretch and Pitch effect (Waveform Editor only) |
107 |
Chapter 8: Mixing multitrack sessions |
109 |
Multitrack Editor overview |
109 |
About multitrack sessions |
109 |
Editing multitrack sessions in the Editor panel and Mixer |
109 |
Select ranges in the Multitrack Editor |
111 |
Customize start offset and time display for multitrack sessions |
111 |
Basic multitrack controls |
111 |
Understanding video, audio, bus, and master tracks |
111 |
Choosing between mono, stereo, and 5.1 tracks |
112 |
Add or delete tracks |
112 |
Name or move tracks |
112 |
Vertically zoom tracks |
113 |
Mute and solo tracks |
114 |
Apply an identical setting to all tracks |
114 |
Set track output volume |
114 |
Pan tracks in stereo |
114 |
Duplicate tracks |
115 |
Multitrack routing and EQ controls |
115 |
Show or hide track routing and EQ controls |
115 |
Assign audio inputs and outputs to tracks |
116 |
Invert the polarity of an input |
116 |
Routing audio to buses, sends, and the Master track |
116 |
Set up a send |
118 |
Equalize tracks |
119 |
Arranging and editing multitrack clips |
120 |
Select and move clips |
120 |
Snap to clip endpoints |
120 |
Copy a clip |
120 |
Trimming and extending clips |
121 |
Remove a selected range from clips |
121 |
Collapse a gap between clips on a track |
121 |
Trim or extend clips |
121 |
Shift the contents of a trimmed or looped clip |
121 |
Permanently edit a clip’s source file in the Waveform Editor |
122 |
Split clips |
122 |
Set audio clip properties |
122 |
Looping clips |
123 |
Access free loops from Resource Central |
123 |
Snap to loop beats |
124 |
Enable a looped clip and change its length |
124 |
Clip volume matching, fading, and mixing |
124 |
Match multitrack clip volume |
125 |
Fade or crossfade multitrack clips |
125 |
Fade a clip in or out |
125 |
Crossfade overlapping clips |
126 |
Fade options |
126 |
Create a single audio clip from multiple clips |
126 |
Create an audio clip from a bus or master track |
127 |
Automating mixes with envelopes |
127 |
Automating clip settings |
127 |
Show or hide clip envelopes |
128 |
Show or hide individual automation parameters |
128 |
Automating track settings |
128 |
Create track envelopes |
129 |
Track Automation Mode options |
129 |
Adjust automation with keyframes |
130 |
Chapter 9: Video and surround sound |
132 |
Working with video applications |
132 |
Edit audio clips from Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 or After Effects |
132 |
Export a multitrack mix to Premiere Pro CS5.5 |
132 |
Link sessions to exported mixdown files |
133 |
Embed edit-original data in exported mixdown files |
133 |
Edit a mixdown file via a video application |
133 |
Importing video and working with video clips |
134 |
Insert a video file into a multitrack session |
134 |
Snap to frames in a video clip |
135 |
Customize the Video panel |
135 |
5.1 surround sound |
135 |
Monitoring 5.1 surround sound |
135 |
Edit 5.1 surround files |
136 |
Pan tracks in a 5.1 surround mix |
136 |
Pan sends to a 5.1 bus track |
137 |
Chapter 10: Saving and exporting |
138 |
Saving and exporting files |
138 |
Save audio files |
138 |
Extract audio channels to mono files |
138 |
Save multitrack sessions |
139 |
Export sessions to OMF or Final Cut Pro Interchange format |
139 |
Export multitrack mixdown files |
140 |
Audio format settings |
141 |
AIFF format settings (*aif, *.aiff, *.aifc) |
141 |
mp3 format settings |
141 |
QuickTime format settings (audio-only *.mov) |
141 |
Wave PCM format settings (.wav, .bwf) |
141 |
Close files |
142 |
Viewing and editing XMP metadata |
142 |
About the Metadata panel and XMP |
142 |
About schemas and properties |
143 |
About the XMP standard |
143 |
Show or hide XMP metadata |
143 |
Save, switch, or delete metadata sets |
143 |
Create schemas and properties |
143 |
Edit XMP metadata |
144 |
Search XMP metadata |
144 |
Chapter 11: Keyboard shortcuts |
145 |
Finding and customizing shortcuts |
145 |
Find shortcuts |
145 |
Customize shortcuts |
145 |
Save or delete custom sets of shortcuts |
145 |
Restore the default shortcuts |
145 |
Default keyboard shortcuts |
146 |
Keys for playing and zooming audio |
146 |
Keys for editing audio files |
146 |