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Adobe Audition CS5.5 What’s New
Expanded library of royalty-free music beds and sound effects
Kick-start your soundtrack with a large selection of royalty-free content. Adobe Audition CS5.5
offers access to more than 10,000 royalty-free sound effects through the Resource Central*
panel. Drag and drop sound effects from Resource Central into your multitrack project to
customize, combine, edit, and layer them. Combine music and sound effects until your
soundtrack sounds exactly the way you want, and it’s ready to send back to Adobe Premiere
Pro or Flash Professional.
Broadcast WAV support and simplified XMP metadata panel
With an XMP-enabled application, meaningful information about a project can be captured during
the content creation process, and then embedded within the file for easy retrieval with content
management systems. With Adobe Audition CS5.5, you can view and edit XMP metadata using a
simplified interface. Support for XMP metadata includes the Broadcast WAV (BWF) schema, enabling
automated workflows within Production Premium and other radio and TV production systems.
Auto-saved XML file format
Adobe Audition CS5.5 automatically saves your sessions in the robust, flexible, and nondestructive
XML format. XML is a human-readable standard for electronically encoding data in documents that
can be used to reconstruct a file in the event it becomes corrupted, as well as to facilitate
conversion to proprietary formats used by different manufacturers. You also can import Adobe
Audition 3 sessions, and then save them as XML. Adobe Audition XML sessions can be opened and
edited in Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac OS), created programmatically from scripts and
other tools, and even printed on paper for physical archival.
Audition CS5.5 features a
simplied XMP panel that
streamlines entry, editing,
and management of
metadata. Tooltips help
ensure that your metadata
will match industry standards
and guidelines, for maximum
compatibility with a wide
variety of broadcast systems.
Access a wide variety of royalty-free
sound eects in Resource Central*.
Content is conveniently arranged in
clearly labeled categories, such as
Cartoon Eects, Crashes, Foley,
Liquids/Water, Transportation,
and more.
Preview sound eects you’ve downloaded from Resource Central by clicking the Play icon next to the sound’s name. en
drag and drop the eects directly into the desired track in the Multitrack Editor.