User Guide

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Navigating the Edit View
Wave Display Right-Click Menu
Right-click in the Wave Display window to bring up a menu with several useful commands. Notice that most have
keyboard shortcuts listed next to their name. You’ll find that using these shortcuts for frequently used commands will
speed up the editing process considerably.
Wave Display Right-Click Menu
Note: By going to Options > Settings, you can change the behavior of your mouse’s right-click button in the Wave Display. By
default, a Wave Display right-click brings up a menu. However, you can push the Extend Selection radio button in the Settings
window’s General tab to have a right-click extend a selection in the Wave Display; this means you’ll then need to hold down
the Ctrl key as you right-click to display the menu.
Select View This command selects the contents of just the Wave Display area that you’re viewing.
Select Entire Wave The entire waveform is selected (highlighted) with this command.
Insert Into Multitrack This command takes the currently highlighted portion of a waveform and inserts it as a waveform
block in the Multitrack View window. If there isn’t a highlighted segment, the entire current waveform is inserted. Either
way, the inserted audio is placed in the next available track at the beginning of the window’s timeline.
Cut Use Cut to remove the current waveform, or highlighted part of the waveform, to the active clipboard.
Note: While Adobe Audition can use the Windows clipboard for cut and paste operations, by default it uses its own internal
clipboard which is faster and more suitable for working with large waveforms. (As a matter of fact, it puts five such “super
clipboards” at your disposal.)
Copy This command copies the current waveform, or highlighted part of the waveform, to the active clipboard. Keep in
mind that if you want to copy audio to another Windows application, the current clipboard must be set to Windows.
Otherwise, use one of Adobe Audition’s internal clipboards, which are faster and can handle more data.
Copy to New When this command is run, the current waveform, or highlighted part of the waveform, is copied to the
active clipboard and then automatically pasted into a new Wave Display window.
Paste Paste inserts data from the active clipboard at the insertion point, or it replaces the currently highlighted data. If
the format of the waveform data on the clipboard is different from the format of the file it’s being pasted into, Adobe
Audition automatically converts it before pasting.