Edit in Adobe Audition

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Edit in Adobe Audition New audio-for-video functionality in Adobe's Production Studio Premium Edition By Frank Moldstad

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If your workflow involves audio and video production, there are some important interoperability functions between Audition 2.0 and Premiere Pro 2 or After Effects 7 Professional in Adobe's Production Studio Premium edition that will make your life easier.

In this tutorial, we're going to look at Edit in Adobe Audition, one of the new timesaving audio features that is only available with the Premium edition.

Adobe is offering two versions of its Production Studio bundle, the Premium Edition and the Standard Edition. The Premium version (US$1,699) includes Adobe After Effects 7.0 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Audition 2.0, Adobe Encore DVD 2.0, and Adobe Illustrator CS2. The Production Studio Standard Edition (US$1,199) only includes Premiere Pro 2.0, After Effects 7.0 Standard and Photoshop CS2. (Both the Premium and Standard editions include the new Adobe Dynamic Link and Adobe Bridge interoperability features.)

Edit in Adobe Audition is a new menu item in Adobe Premiere Pro 2 and After Effects 7 Professional that allows you to open an audio track directly in Adobe Audition 2.0 for editing. This eliminates the need to export a file, import it into Audition and then do the reverse to get the edited file back.

Instead, when you select Edit in Adobe Audition from the Premiere Pro or After Effects Edit menus, the audio portion of the file immediately opens in Audition 2.0. After the file is edited and saved in Audition, it is automatically updated in the video application. This makes it easier and faster to use Audition's powerful audio tools, instead of simply reaching for the the built-in audio tools in Premiere Pro or After Effects for expediency's sake. And once in the Audition environment, tools for audio processing, editing and finishing will produce a much better audio track.

Using the Edit in Adobe Audition command is very simple, practically taking more time to explain than it does to do. To demonstrate it, I'll use one of the demo clip provided in the reviewer's guide for the Production Studio Premium edition, called Multi_cam_demo1.avi.

The clip depicts a tap dance sequence, complete with the director's instructions and a clapboard at the beginning. The audio portion is well recorded, but there's a constant rumbling in the low midrange that sounds like an air conditioner, which I want to remove.

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