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seanmcnally98
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January 24, 2023
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Display waveforms for audio clips while dragging

  • January 24, 2023
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Very simple idea, while dragging audio clips on the timeline, continually show the waveform rather than showing a blank box. This functionality is present in Audition, and is incredibly useful for manual synchronization. See attached gif for further explanation of what I mean by the "blank box".

I'm aware you can sort of already achieve this by "nudging" the audio clip, but it would be great if this were always available when dragging. Thanks!

33 replies

Inspiring
September 18, 2024

I think the change in the latest beta is to fix an issue that has caused flickering while moving along the timeline. It's been various levels of horrible->annoying for the past year or two

KeulerB
Inspiring
September 18, 2024

This is sad to hear that you still can't view the waveforms in real time while scrolling or moving the clips. Again, Avid and Magix Vegas Pro have been doing this forever. Maybe the graphic you shared indicates that they just Draw faster?

I don't appreciate the label color changes either. I was very dissapointed that the new colors were the default. Thankfully, I have a previous version installed. I open the Labels Editor, screen grabbed it and used the eyedropper in 2024.6 to make my default colors a custom setting. Ugh.

Inspiring
September 18, 2024

I opened the beta the other day and to my suprise I saw this:

 

Excited, I opened the app and threw an audio file in to see if it would draw the waveforms during an edit. Nope, same old crummy 1994 draw behavior. -_-

 

With all the changes to the interface in beta, the one that I want the most is to be able to drag and see a waveform move under your mouse. I could care less about the rounded corners and color changes, I improvements in functionality like this one. The FPS boost has been nice I must say. 

Known Participant
May 19, 2023

I think this feature needs attention, just a basic feature an NLE must have, yet here we are begging for it.

Vegas Pro, Resolve, Edius & their very own Rush.

Participant
January 24, 2023
This is crucial feature for syncing audio in editing mode.
Thats why filmmakers are clapping in a shot. Sync sound.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Hadn't used Premiere Pro for decades, and I'd been preaching since Vegas 5.0 how much better it was at almost everything than even Mac FCP.
Vegas truly brings you closer to your projects as it's so user-friendly.
Extremely disappointed in Premiere Pro in 2022.
Cobra
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
22 JUNE 2022 and I still cannot believe that ADOBE hasn't implemented this simple but SUPER CRUCIAL feature for editing!!!
Participant
January 24, 2023
This issue makes doing synced audio edits very tedious. Sony Vegas has done this for maybe 16 years now. And here we are in 2022.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
I have complained about this for maybe 12 years since I switched over from Sony Vegas (ahead of its time). It's laughable that we are still dealing with an interface that can't draw a waveform in realtime. Its 2022, not 1997.
Cobra
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Bring this to life ADOBE!!! ITS A MUST!!