Selected multiple sections in Audition?

Report · Jan 17, 2017

I have files where I need to adjust all of the breaths -- it is for an audio book. What I would like to do is to "tag" all the breaths (happy to do this manually, NOT asking question if there is an automatic way to select them) so that I can adjust them all at once. I don't know yet exactly how I want to mix the breathes, so I'd like to be able to select them and then mix them in different ways. I've tried several things:

a) I marked them as subclips ... but there seems nothing I can do with subclip markers. I can't select the audio, etc.

b) I've tried to move them to another track in multiple editing, but it seems very clumsy. I choose one, move it to another track, then have to go back and silence is in the first track, and then go to the next one.

Here's what would be ideal. i) go through and tag all the breaths, ii) move them to another track and when I move them they leave silence in the voice track. This way I can iii) mix them as I desire.

Is there a way to do this?

Report · Jan 17, 2017

There are various ways to deal with this type of editing in Audition. Here is one option. If you are working in the Multitrack view you can go through and select each breath using the Time selection tool and Split the track at each breath either using the right click menu option or Ctrl-K keyboard shortcut. This splits the track either side of the breath. Once the Split is done you can Right click on the 'breath' to slide down onto the next track which will leave a gap in the first track. Once you have isolated all the breaths onto a second track you can decide then how you want to treat them.

However the normal way to deal with noisy breaths is just to reduce them in level. This you can do by using the Volume Envelope line to dip the level of just each breath in situ without having to split them out onto another track.

You can also, of course, do similar level dipping whilst editing in the Waveform view. It is normal to leave breaths in place because if you edit them out completely speech doesn't sound normal without the natural gaps.