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Participant
January 24, 2023
Under Review

Ability to see audio waveform and video in source window

  • January 24, 2023
  • 121 replies
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The ability to see a waveform and the video at the same time.

121 replies

PierreLouisBeranek
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
YES! YES!!!! YES!!!!! I was just about to post my own FR for this but saw it's already here. When cutting up interviews in the Source Monitor, it would be SO helpful to see the audio waveform below the picture, with a user selectable zoom level (either one that corresponds to the current zoom slider in the Source Monitor, or a new zoom slider just below the waveform).

PLEASE add this Adobe!!! You already have many different viewing options in the Source Monitor, but a Video + Audio preview would be the most useful by far IMO!
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Exactly, please do add this. In my footage I sometimes say things which indicate how it should be edited or which shot is the best and I need to be able to listen to these notes and judge the footage whilst editing simultaneously
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Very valuable feature. Not important, but urgent, but would be really nice to have 🙂
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
yes yes please do it Adobe!
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
A valuable feature as a lot of editing on dialogue video means you have to make decisions based on syllables, words, and sound. More so than actual visual action.

It's hard to see when the person starts talking from just the visuals, having them available at the same time, and being able to jump back and forth by clicking on the waveform, means you can work more in tune with what's being said
tomatosoup75
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
Yes! Resolve has this and it's awesome.

Tip in case you didn't know - if you click the "video only" or "audio only" buttons that are normally used to drag audio/video into the timeline, it will switch the source monitor between the picture or the waveform. Not a final solution but quicker than opening the menu to choose
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
When editing TV, Reality, Digital, even social, it can be more useful to edit by looking at the wave forms, and can be faster to find the point in a shot where dialogue starts and stops, instead of just sliding and hunting for the moment, and miss a soundbite. BUT it's also hard to catch a mciro reaction in the footage when you're only putting in and outs via the waveforms, so to be able to have both visible at the same time AND being able to choose to link the controls or separate them or link them would save a lot of time.
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
But not both together.
Legend
January 24, 2023
You can already do this. Click the waveform icon at the bottom center.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Give me the option of viewing the waveform for a piece of video launched in the source monitor.