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peterkellner1
Inspiring
March 7, 2019
Question

I'm switching to Audition from Premiere for my Audio editing, Where are edit tools?

  • March 7, 2019
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I spent a lot of time doing non-linear editing of my dialog in Premiere. I can't find tools in audition for things like ripple delete, insert, etc. Sorry for the newby question but I've spend about 15 minutes searching around and it's not obvious to me.  The only adobe product I know well is Premiere.

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    Legend
    March 8, 2019

    In my limited experience editing in Audition (podcasts) coming from a lot of experience editing in many different linear & non-linear editors, was that it Is sub-optimal. Which is a shame.

    I’m sure there are lots of talented folks with way more DAW experience than me who achieve great things but Id recommend you go back and do your initial edit in Pr and then transfer to Au if you need to finish there.

    If you do persevere & make progress (eg JKL ripple trimming) then do report back

    ryclark
    Participating Frequently
    March 8, 2019

    For those of us who don't use Premiere could you explain JKL ripple trimming bit more so that we could see how it would apply to audio editing in Audition?

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    Community Expert
    March 8, 2019

    You'll find an explanation of JKL ripple trimming here: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/premiere-pro/using/trimming-clips1.html

    But almost in the same breath, I have to say that you won't find it in Audition, simply because it's incredibly 'granular'. It's intended to slip an edit a frame at a time, and in audio terms that's incredibly coarse; about 2000 samples, when Audition can edit single ones if you really want.

    And that's the thing really - Audition is an audio editor, Premiere is a video editor. They have different facilities for different purposes. The sensible approach to editing audio for video is indeed to do the synchronous part of it in Premiere, and do the more subtle parts in Audition - but not the basic edit. So Trevor_Asq's recommendation is basically sound, although I'd disagree about Audition being sub-optimal unless that point is clarified - as I hope I've just done.

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 7, 2019

    Audition doesn't function in the same way as Premiere does - for a start, it's not just a non-linear editor. It uses slightly different (yet well-established) conventions which won't necessarily make immediate sense to you - in just the same way that Premiere didn't for me! But hey' I'm getting on a lot better now I've looked at the tutorials, so I suggest that perhaps you might like to do the same...

    So initially, I suggest you have a look at this (there are plenty more if you do a search):

    Adobe Audition CC Full Tutorial - Getting Started Guide - YouTube

    peterkellner1
    Inspiring
    March 7, 2019

    Thanks.  I watched the video and it did not talk about how to do the actual editing. I've played around some and it seems like when I'm in the multi-track view, I can edit but when I'm in single track, I can't. Is that true?

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 7, 2019

    peterkellner1  wrote

    Thanks.  I watched the video and it did not talk about how to do the actual editing. I've played around some and it seems like when I'm in the multi-track view, I can edit but when I'm in single track, I can't. Is that true?

    Not really - you can edit perfectly well in both, but only Multitrack is non-destructive. If you edit in waveform view and save the changes you make, your file will be altered, and that's not reversible. Sometimes there are good reasons for using Waveform view for editing, but most is done in Multitrack, which works fundamentally (as does Premiere) as a posh file player. The changes you make are stored in the Session file, and that's what controls the playback of individual clips. So your original file isn't touched at all. This means that you have to be a little careful in Multitrack, because if you double-click on a file it will open in Waveform view, and if you edit something in that's already been used elsewhere in your edit, then that will alter too. You do get warnings about this, though.