User Guide

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ADOBE AUDITION

User Guide

Insert/Delete Time

Use Insert/Delete Time to introduce an amount of silence into the session at the cursor location, or to cut the selected

area out of the session.

Insert/Delete Time dialog

Insert This option will shift all material (blocks or parts of blocks) to the right of the cursor position to a location after

the time amount speciﬁed in the editable text ﬁeld. Blocks will be split if necessary, and the speciﬁed amount of silence

inserted.

Delete Selected Time If this option is chosen, the highlighted area will be removed, with all blocks to the right of the

selected region shifted to the left.

Group Waveform Normalize

Group Waveform Normalize allows you to normalize the volume of multiple open waveforms using a three-screen batch

process. (When you normalize a waveform, the loudest part of the waveform is set to a speciﬁed amplitude, thereby

raising or lowering all other parts of the same waveform by the same amount.) If the volume is raised as part of the

normalization process, Adobe Audition can apply limiting to prevent clipping.

Note: Complete documentation on the Group Waveform Normalize function can be found in the “Edit Menu – Edit View”

chapter.

Snapping

Enable this function to have the edges of any block “snap” to certain time locations when being dragged. Snapping is

used to align perfectly with time ruler locations when highlighting a region.

The Snap to locations (which vary depending on the Snapping option you have selected) act as magnets for any blocks

dragged in their proximity, and have the effect of pulling the waveform toward them.

For example, if your Time Ruler’s format is hours:minutes:seconds, with seconds showing as the division at your current

zoom level (1.0, 2.0, etc.), then dragging a block which starts at 1.6 seconds to the right will result in it snapping to the

2.0 location as it nears it. You can, of course, keep dragging beyond 2.0 in this case, if you wish.

Six snapping options are available from the pullout menu, and up to ﬁve of them may be checkmarked at one time. [Snap

to Ruler (Fine) and Snap to Ruler (Coarse) can’t both be checked simultaneously.]