- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from MusicRadioCreative.com.
In this mini series, where we explore the Adobe Audition
preferences menu,
I'm looking at playback and recording today.
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Now I'm going to look at the Adobe Audition
preferences menu, control or command comma will bring it
up really quickly for you and play back and recording.
So, first of all
we've got auto scroll and this is really handy.
So if you're working in the waveform editor
and you're playing back some audio, usually it pages.
So when, if you're zoomed in it'll page along,
let me show you the behavior.
If I go in onto this sound effect, place the cursor here
as you can see, as it's playing back
it pages from bit to bit as the cursor jumps.
So it's kind of like a jumpy scroll.
However, if I go in and change that too centered
it will stay centered on the, the cursor here.
It will look a lot smoother.
So that's a lot of a smoother playback.
If I actually zoom it out, you'll get that better.
A nice smooth scroll.
So it really depends what you prefer.
Default is page wise.
It's the same for the multi-track again.
If I go over into multi-track here
and I start playing back, let's zoom right in.
So we can get an idea of how this works.
So if I play something back and again
you see it paging along.
However, if I change that behavior to centered, you'll see.
Now I play back
and it stays centered on my playback bar there.
So generally I just leave this as default.
That's what I'm used to.
You can also enable auto scroll
when starting playback or recording.
Now, I would definitely recommend this as it means,
if I go ahead, let's,
arm one of these tracks to record here
and say I zoom right in and I start recording.
Let's start recording nicely zoomed in.
"Hello. This is me,
I'm Mike Russell."
And look as I'm recording
it is paging along and following what I'm recording.
Okay. Now, if I did not have that box ticked
in playback and recording, it would not follow me.
So let's just move along now
and record another section to show you.
If I start recording here.
"Hello, this is Mike Russell,
and it's not following me along."
Now obviously it is at the moment.
This is likely to be something
that happens when you restart.
Generally. I just enable that by default
cause it's very handy to be able to see
what you are recording.
Return play, head to start position on the first stop.
Okay. This is really handy.
Let's go into the waveform view and play this back.
"Hello, this is Mike Russell."
Okay. As soon as I stop that
it returns the play head to the start position.
"Hello, this is Mike Russell."
Perfect. It's the behavior I like when I'm editing.
If I say on the second stop, and then I play back,
"Hello, this is Mike Russell." and I stop,
it stops the play head right there so I can then play again.
So it's stopping wherever I stop in time.
But when I hit stop the second time, boom
it jumps back to where it was before I started playing.
So you can have that behavior.
You can also go in here and just completely disable it
which will mean when you are playing back.
"Hello, this is Mike Russell."
It just continuously stops wherever you stop the play head.
So podcast editors sometimes like it like that,
audio production or producers like it to jump back
so they can audition something time
and time again to make sure it sounds good.
It really depends what kind of editing you're doing.
I leave it enabled.
And first stop ticked here.
You've also got scroll to play head
after returning to start position.
Again, leave that ticked.
What it means is if I have this over here
and I'm zoomed in, "Hello, this is Mike Russell,"
and I stop it scrolls straight back
to my play head.
Switching that off means I won't see my play head.
So it's kind of cool to leave that ticked.
Now when playback starts within a selected region,
stop at the end of the selection.
That means if I select something like this,
"Hello, this is, hello this is,"
it stops playing at the end of my selected region.
If I untick that like this,
"Hello, this is Mike Russell."
It just continues playing.
And obviously my desire is only playback
what I'm highlighting please.
Also play audio while scrubbing.
This is a nice little scrub feature.
As you scrub along the audio.
I love that for finding anything in the audio.
I need to work with.
Some people don't like that kind of scrubby sound.
So you can just disable it here, click okay,
and then no scrubbing sound,
but I definitely like like scrub feedback there.
So leave that on.
Then you've got the JKL keys that can scroll
through your audio in real time
or double speed or half speed.
So have I put this on double speed as I use L,
I'm like a chipmunk and
you can go back again.
So that's double speed, might be quite good
if your editing a podcast.
If you can still understand what's being said.
Half speed obviously does this.
It kind of turns you into a, a little troll or something.
And then I like to leave it on normal speed, J.
"Hello. This is Mike Russell."
J, K, L.
"This is Mike Russell."
L will speed it up anyway for you.
So if you hit the L key twice or the J key twice,
it speeds it up.
And K will stop of course.
That's the shuttle keys on your keyboard.
You've got the meter crossover levels.
This is really handy when recording audio.
So by default, it's at minus 18.1 and minus 6 for the red.
So basically it's saying to you
when you're recording something, let's
let's start a new audio file and record.
"Hello, this is Mike and I can see
oh I'm a bit hot there,
when I go above 60 dB, I'm hot,
but when I'm between 6 and 18 dB,
I'm in a perfect range for recording.
You might wanna change this for your purposes.
You might wanna say,
well I want the yellow zone start at 12 minus 12 DB.
It really is your personal preference,
but it works on these level meters here,
when you are playing back
and your recording.
Finally punch and roll.
We love punch and roll.
It's just the duration it gives you before you punch
in your audio, and I'll show you how this works.
You can also click to display a pre-roll countdown timer.
If you're working with video,
it will display a countdown on top of the video.
So if I were to record something here,
let's do it again.
"Hello, I'm Mike Russell and it's sunny today."
Okay. And I wanted to go in and actually record on here.
Let's switch off solo here.
So I'd switch over to punch and roll mode
by right clicking the record icon.
And then it'll give me three seconds of intro time.
"Hello, I'm Mike Russell and it's raining today."
So I could then overwrite it with my punch and roll.
Obviously I didn't write it
in because I didn't have record armed.
Let's do that again.
Let's change the punch and roll duration
to be just a second before.
Click okay.
"Hello, I'm Mike Russell and is raining today."
And there's my punch.
"Hello? I'm Mike Russell and it's raining today."
So you can see, you can have your
your preroll time for as long as you like.
I like three seconds just to get some tone inflection.
Some people like five seconds.
And definitely if you're working with video,
tick this to show the countdown timer on your video as well.
That is playback and recording in a nutshell.
Learn even more about Adobe audition
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