How can I preview my final output waveform?

[kaihin30]

Just wanna ask how could I preview the output waveform after adding bunch of effects, like the way you can preview the waveform of an audio source in the panel.

Thank you very much!

[Jeff Bellune · Accepted solution]

Clip>Render and Replace. The new waveform will appear in the timeline, and if you double-click the clip in the timeline, it will load into the Source Monitor with the modified waveform.

[John Br]

I was just asking about this yesterday!😲 (I think it's the same thing you are asking about.) I tested what Jeff Bellune Said and it works! BUT it takes a LONG time I'm not interested in rending any of the video effects and the transcoding takes a LONG TIME. Is there a way to do this with just the audio? The Clip>Generate audio waveform, does not work for this function and neither does the Sequence>render audio (I would think this is exactly what I would want but it does not provide the desired effect.)

[Jeff Bellune · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

Select only the audio portion of the clip before doing the render and replace thing. It will proceed a lot faster and ignore the video portion.

If the audio and video are linked, then hold down the Alt (Opt) key when you click to select.

[John Br]

For some reason, it, (the alt option when linked) seems to work sometimes and not others (but I can unlink, it seems to be a bug around making changes, you must deselect and then reselect the chosen audio before it will let you render it, immediately following changes to audio effects)... but ill take it! I just submitted a ticket about this on user voice the other day to make this happen, didn't know it was possible. I still think it should happen automatically or at least when the sequence>render audio is used, but thanks a lot! I usually don't get a lot of help on a given topic here so this is great! thanks!

[John Br]

Oops spoke too soon, realized that it disappears all my changes so I don't know what I have already done, nor can I tweak it further. 😕 Not as helpful as I thought. thanks tho