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Understanding the Waveform Editor - Audition Tutorial

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Understanding the Waveform Editor

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- [Instructor] This chapter will focus on working in the Waveform Editor, which we use to work on individual audio files directly. It's important to note that the work you do in the Waveform Editor is destructive to your files. So once I save and close this file, any changes I've made will be permanent. I guess the question is then why would you ever want to work destructively? Wouldn't we always like the option to make changes that can be undone later? Well, this would be nice, but there are certain things in Audition that need to be performed this way, such as converting the sample rate or bit depth, as well as this. If I do a search on the word process in brackets, all of these effects actually need to be applied directly to the file. They can't be applied any other way. But as well as that, sometimes it's just quicker and more straightforward to work directly with the waveform. For example, I have this file and it has just a little too much silence at the start, so I'm going to just going to make a selection at the start here, click and drag to the start of the file. And now to delete that silence, all I need to do is press the Delete key. And now if I save and close that file, that change is permanent. If I did want to keep a backup of that original file, what I would recommend is rather than saving it is to go and choose File, Save As. And I'll just save this to my working folder in the 01_Audition folder, and I'll save this as WaveformEditor_edited. Click Save. And I'll click OK. And now I have this new version loaded in Audition, and the original version is untouched. Although I do spend most of my time in the Multitrack Editor, editing and adjusting your audio in the Waveform Editor sometimes can just be a faster and more straightforward way to work.

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