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tsarandrew
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March 3, 2020
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Stretching clips back to 100% without overlapping

  • March 3, 2020
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I have to edit podcasts that last an hour plus, and so stretched the file to 60%. Then cut down unwanted portions. However upon stretching it back to 100%, all of the clips run into each other. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to tell Adobe "don't overlap clips--have the next clip start at the end of the first clip."  I tried merging the clips and then stretching those proportionally, but the file becomes lower quality.

Surely there is some feature to stretch the clips back to 100%, and keep them in order, and *not* have the newly returned 100% clips run over each other in a series of very confusing overlaps which I must now separate one by one, eliminating any time I actually saved by editing the file at 60%?  


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Mike Mlaz
Inspiring
August 17, 2023

Try editing the audio first, then stretch/shrink to time.

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Jaireed
Participant
June 8, 2020

I was having the same issue and, look! It's possible to go back to 100%.

You have to drag the triangle on the edge of the clip rather than type in "100%" under properties. This saved me having to re-edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5s_pyM3pYA

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    Tinashe Wertz Media Co.
    Participant
    September 19, 2020

    This is a great solution!

     

    I was having problems with my clips overlapping which was preventing me from editing at 2x speed. This will save me hours. Thanks for sharing!

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    Jaireed
    Participant
    September 19, 2020

    I remember feeling the same sense of relief... glad it helps!

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    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 3, 2020

    I'm sorry, but WHY ON EARTH are you trying to edit like this? Multitrack view has very easy scaling built into it, which means that you can manipulate your way around almost any length of file with ease.

     

    The answer to your question is simple though - you cannot achieve what you want at all. If you shrink a clip, put a split in it, shrink one of them and join it up again you've created two clips - each with their own fixed start point. Start points for stretching are always from the beginning of a clip, and you've created two different start points for the remaining clips, and those are the points from which they will expand - you've destroyed all of the timing relationships, and an overlap is inevitable.

     

    There is absolutely no reason to do any of this. As I mentioned, the zoom bar at the top of the screen lets you navigate around any size session with ease. Why are you not using that?

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    PaulMurphyCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 3, 2020

    Coming from a video editing background, this actually makes a lot of sense to me, and highlights a couple of Audition's shortcomings:

     

    1. In Premiere, you can play your timeline at double-speed while maintaining the pitch, which makes it easy to quickly go through a long piece of audio and still understand what's being said.

    2. Another option in Premiere is to change the speed of a selection of clips while ripple editing, so there are no gaps/overlaps afterwards.

     

    Because of these shortcomings, my advice to @tsarandrew would be to do your initial edit in Premiere, where the editing functionality is much more robust, and then open your sequence in Audition for the final mix.

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 3, 2020

    If you hold the CTI at the RHS of the edit panel with the mouse, and move it slightly to the right, you can achieve scrubbing at any speed you can hear at, with pitch-corrected audio. And likewise at the LHS - you can do variable speed reverse scrubbing too. Not only does it speed up, but it can do it slowly, so you can judge edit points very accurately using the facility.

     

    And you can change the speed of a selection of clips and perform ripple editing in Audition - that's not the issue. The issue is simply one of what happens when you re-establish them at the correct speed. However you look at it, this is an inappropriate way of editing anything, quite frankly.

     

    The editing functionality is no more 'robust' in Premiere - it's just different. And as many podcast users only have a single product licence, encouraging them to use Premiere isn't going to help them very much, is it?

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