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Introduction A Do Be Audition Cs 6

This document provides instructions for using Adobe Audition CS6 to edit audio files into a podcast. It describes pre-editing steps like recording ambient noise and saving original files. It then covers how to set up a project folder structure, start a new multitrack session, import audio files, and add tracks. Basic editing techniques are explained like splitting clips, deleting sections, adjusting volume with keyframes, and adding fades. The document concludes with exporting an MP3 of the finished podcast and a warning about destructive editing.

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Introduction A Do Be Audition Cs 6

This document provides instructions for using Adobe Audition CS6 to edit audio files into a podcast. It describes pre-editing steps like recording ambient noise and saving original files. It then covers how to set up a project folder structure, start a new multitrack session, import audio files, and add tracks. Basic editing techniques are explained like splitting clips, deleting sections, adjusting volume with keyframes, and adding fades. The document concludes with exporting an MP3 of the finished podcast and a warning about destructive editing.

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Introduction

to Adobe Audition CS6

Pre-Audition Instructions
1. Before you record yourself or an interview using your Zoom recorder, make sure you
record a soundbed (at least 30 seconds), the natural ambient noise of the room without
anyone talking. You use these soundbeds between clips when things are silent so the
emptiness between clips sounds natural.
2. Save copies of your original, unedited soundfiles somewhere else. On a thumbdrive, email,
desktop. That way if you accidentally edit them poorly you can always go back to the
originals.
3. Audition lets you do two types of editing: destructive (which permanently changes the
original file) and non-destructive (doesnt mess with the original audio files). By in large
we will be trying to stick with non-destructive editing, which is why we will try to almost
always edit in the multi-track window.

I. Folder Structure

1. Create a project folder on the desktop. Call it lastname_assignment2mainfolder. Save it to


your external hard drive.
2. Never save anything to anywhere but this project folder.
3. For the sake of your sanitylabel all your files with descriptive names like
radiolab_walrus_clip. Not the names that are pre-given like 187627fd.wav.
4. You are assembling your files in a multitrack session. Audition is a non-destructive editing
software, so your edits and volume changes in multitrack dont change the original files. This
means your multitrack has to reference the original files each time it opens. If they arent
exactly where they were the last time you opened your session, they will show up BLANK in
multitrack. Yes, you can link them (tell the session where to find them), if you need to. But
you wont need to, because you will follow my advice and ALWAYS keep your files and
multitrack together.

II. Starting a New Project


1. The first thing is to create a multitrack Session for editing. There are two ways to do it:
Click on multitrack in upper left, or
File>New>Multitrack Session
2. When you create a new multitrack session, Audition will ask you to enter in some options:
Name your project (please use the format lastname_assignment2):
Kurlinkus_assignment2
Folder location: Save to your external hard drive to the folder you created
Template: Podcast
3. Move a sound file into the window by dragging and dropping it into the files window in
Audition.
You can also click on the Import file icon in the Files window; go to the File>Import
File on the menu bar; or just type Command I
Youll notice several pre-created tracks. Host (where you put audio of yourself
talking), interview (where you put audio of your ripped interviews), music bed
(your music), and master (where you edit the sound of everything together at the
same time).
You can also add a new track: multitrack>track>add new stereo or duplicate. And
then add audio by multitrack>insertfiles
To delete a track, select it, and choose Multitrack > Track > Delete Selected Track.
You may want to rename the tracks to something more specific and meaningful to
your project. Do so by clicking on the track name and typing.
Sometimes its nice to have one empty track at the top called working track where
you perform all your edits. Delete this working track before exporting your final
mp3.

III. Basic Editing

A. Deleting sections of a track


1. Move the audio file you want to edit to the working track track.

2. Use the razor tool (the icon that looks like a razor or press r) to divide tracks into segments that
you want to use in your project. Delete the rest.
You can also use the clip>split (command k)
3. Use the time selection tool (the I-beam icon, 2 to the right of the razor tool) to highlight the part
of the track you want to delete.
Hit delete to preserve the gap or option-delete to close it.
4. When you position the mouse over the beginning or end of a clip, you will see a red square
bracket indicating that you can trim or extend a clip.
5. To zoom in press +, to zoom out press -. Alternatively, use the zoom menu at the bottom of the
window (play with the different types of zooms as they are helpful).
B. Volume
1. To set a base-level audio for your podcast, Id like you first to use the match clip volume
function. Right click on an individual track>match clip volume>-18LUFS (for speaking) -20
for music
2. To adjust the volume of individual tracks or clips, use the yellow line across each track.
Click on it with the move tool and drag it up or down to make the track louder or softer.
3. By clicking on this yellow bar you can add a keyframe or soundpoint (a yellow diamond).
By adding multiple keyframes and adjusting the volume line up or down between them you can
have the volume of the track rise and fall.
4. Fades. When transitioning between audio clips it is sometimes appropriate to add a fade in and
out. To do this you can use soundpoints or use the fade in box (the transparent box that looks
like a dog-eared sheet of paper at the beginning and end of each clip). Simply drag this semitransparent box to adjust the fade.

IV. Exporting

File>Export>Multitrack Mixdown>Entire Session.


In the Export Multitrack Mixdown dialog box, choose MP3 from the Format drop down list.
Click Browse and ensure the MP3 will be saved to the project folder on your harddrive. Give
your MP3 a name (lastname_Assignment2). For the purposes of our course, maintain the default
Format Settings (MP3 192 Kbps CBR).
Click OK to export your .mp3 to your thumb drive. The MP3 will appear in the project folder
on your thumb drive as well the Files area of Audition.

V. Quickly Editing Down Copies of Your Original FilesWarning this is


Destructive Editing and Will Alter Your Files Permanently
1. File > Open
2. Select the portion of the waveform you want to remove
3. Press Delete repeat Steps 2 & 3 until your clean up is done
3. Apply Effects > Amplitude & Compression > Speech Volume Leveler
4. Save the file as a new name as to not write over your old file

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