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Brian Reyman
Brian Reyman
Participant
February 25, 2017
Question

Simulate Logic Pro Strip Silence?

  • February 25, 2017
  • 2 replies
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I'm working to simulate the Logic Pro Strip Silence feature.

In short, it identifies all silent areas in its multi-track editor, slices and then deletes the empty regions, so it ends up looking like the following.

In Audition, I can add Markers in the Diagnostics panel to identify silent and speaking areas and then have those marker regions sent to the multi-track file with just a few clicks. I end up with screenshot 1 below. But, I then have to manually delete each of the silent areas to get to screenshot 2 below. Manually deleting them all won't work as I edit long podcasts and would delete hundreds of areas.

Any thoughts on a better way to do this?

Screenshot 1 - I can get to this pretty easily. Silent areas are marked and cut, but not yet removed.

Screenshot 2: I have to manually select and delete each silent area to get to my ideal place, here. I edit VERY long podcasts so doing this manually isn't going to work.

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      Daniel Gullo, PhD
      Daniel Gullo, PhD
      Participating Frequently
      December 5, 2020

      How do you actually cut after marking?  I have used Diagnostics > Mark Audio but I am not sure how to have it break these into clips (cut).  Ultimately, I have 2+ tracks from Zoom interviews at any given time.  Each track represents a guest on my show. I need to delete the excessive silence but NOT ripple delete because then the conversation sequence is lost (timeline).  I am fine slipping things manually.  The cutting part royally sucks though.  It seems like a pretty straight-forward feature that has been requested for over two years now:  select a few tracks in MultiTrack, and collectively remove the silence without jumbling everything up.  

        LaSalamander
        LaSalamander
        Inspiring
        December 5, 2020

        Maybe go and add your voice here (and encourage others to do so, too!): https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911314-audition/suggestions/34461586-add-strip-silence-feature

          SteveG_AudioMasters_
          Community Expert
          SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
          Community Expert
          December 5, 2020

          One of the problems with Adobe in general is that in terms of added features, it's generally the big-ticket users that get listened to, not 48 podcast-makers. And that's probably the reason that nothing's happened. It goes like this; the developers look at the list of feature requests, make a note of them, and run it past the big-ticket users - these are the establishments with seats sometimes running into the millions. And if these corporates can't see any value in an idea, then it goes right back onto the back burner list. And that's pretty much what Durin's "I believe we have an open item in the feature backlog" - from two years ago - means.

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