- Maybe you've been clicking update many, many times.
Tearing your hair out, saying,
"When is Audition gonna add some new features?"
Today is that day.
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Everything you'll see is demonstrated in the beta version.
But by the time you click update,
it'll actually be in the real live release.
So here we are in the multitrack,
which is where we'd have multiple audio tracks,
say, a host on one track, and a guest on another track.
So we can go through and edit.
Now what I can do is add new multitrack markers
to individual waveforms-
I can't believe this wasn't a feature before-
just by hitting M on a selected waveform.
Look at that, Marker 01 goes inside
that waveform, and look at this!
I've got a cool edit, which highlights
if I go up to the marker there, I can move it around.
So let's zoom in and place it exactly
on that little bit I want to edit out.
That's really why we'd use markers in Audition,
is to highlight bits that we want to cut out.
Someone swears, someone goes, "Uh", and you wanna cut it.
The same is true if I go to this waveform,
I can hit the M key, and boom! Gives me a marker there.
And they have separate marker names.
Marker 01 here, Marker 01 there.
And I can also do a multitrack-wide marker.
So I can, say, place a marker here
by clicking off all waves.
So I'm selected just on the multitrack,
and now that is what the behavior was before,
multitrack marker only, and nothing inside the waveforms
that are as easy to move around as this.
And I can go ahead and place a second marker
if I want there, which is fantastic.
So how do we organize all these markers?
Well, you'll notice if I double click
and go to this waveform,
you'll see those markers are there inside the waveform.
If I double click this one, that marker is there.
But the multitrack marker is nowhere to be seen.
So the previous use wasn't really that helpful,
because if I'd go ahead and, say, block out all of this,
and delete it like so, and then nudge all this audio along,
look, that multitrack marker still stays in the same place.
So if I went through and placed a hundred markers
in my multitrack, they're all out of sync.
So Audition has really solved a lot of an issue here
by doing individual waveform markers in the multitrack view.
Can't believe it wasn't available before.
By the way, just for a side note here,
if you go ahead and ripple delete,
so that's Command Shift and Delete,
or Control Shift and Delete on pc.
Look, the waveform markers do nudge up,
but now you've got individualized waveform markers.
Why would you wanna do a multitrack marker?
Okay, markers, pretty excited about that.
And the markers window is available here
or in the window menu up here.
And then just look for markers,
and you'll see whatever you've got selected.
So if I've got, say, this one or this one
or whatever I'm selecting,
the markers for that particular thing
show up in the markers window.
So I've got the second track here,
the guest's speech track, and you can see two markers.
But if I select my track, only one marker appears.
And of course I can change the duration,
so I can select a time duration.
I can change the type of marker,
if I'm into that kind of stuff.
But to be honest, I never do.
Markers, absolutely fantastic.
"But what else?" I hear you cry.
"What's the second new feature in Adobe Audition
for early 2023 podcasters are gonna love?"
Well, do you know how I've said to you,
if you're gonna save your editing time,
speed everything up, just edit on 50% or 100% or 150%,
one way or the other, just make things faster, right?
So I advise using the JKL keys as you play back.
Let's do that. Okay, so I'm gonna hit play,
- [Recording] For post processing, live streams,
- and then I'm gonna hit L. (recording speeds up)
And then L again. (recording speeds up more)
It's just chipmunk.
It's nothing else but chipmunk!
How am I supposed to understand and edit that?
Well, now the second new feature
is that you can change the variation
of how much that increase or decrease in speed happens.
And you can do this by going into Audition preferences,
which you'll find right here under settings in the Mac,
or Control or Command and comma will get you there as well.
And look for playback and recording here.
And now you've got JKL shuttle speed.
By default, it's one times, which is useless in my opinion.
Two times, probably even more useless,
certainly for speech editing.
But now we can go up in 0.1 of a speed, or half a speed,
which is super handy for podcast editing.
Let's show the 0.1.
Let's click okay, let's play back,
and start hitting the L key to speed up.
- [Recording] ...or again,
sort of post-processing. - Oh, that's helpful.
- Livestreams that we repurpose,
and you know, all of that, - Oh, that's helpful.
- [Recording] to the various channels.
Yeah, it's used for every facet of any kind of audio
that I... - And I can go back.
- [Recording] That's amazing. And I love the fact that
Adobe Audition is just (indistinct).
- And I can make myself very deep as well.
I'd advise 0.1 or 0.5,
it's really, really handy and helpful.
I think it'd be even better
if they didn't change the pitch of the voice,
so they sped it up, but kept the pitch constant.
Now I understand, I've been told,
that apparently that's being worked on in the background.
That'd be super helpful for podcast editing.
But right now, that is a setting you should change
straight away the moment you install Audition,
'cause it's super handy.
And the last new feature for 2023.
Let's go to the effects rack.
And notice on my host track here, track 1,
I've got 2 effects, and on track 2, I've got nothing.
Now I wanna copy and paste those effects.
I wanna take that dynamics processing.
I wanna take that really cool EQ,
and I wanna put it on my guest track.
This is a common thing that we wanna solve.
Now, in the past I've solved this,
bit of a hack really, by going to the mixer
and then just dragging and dropping on the mixer like that.
You see that works quite well. I'm gonna undo that.
Now, copy and paste is available
in the effects rack in Audition.
Again, why was this not available before?
I do not know, but now it is.
So I can click, say, dynamics, and I can hit
Command or Control and C,
and then I can go onto my secondary track
and I can hit Command or Control and V.
And there it is. Copy-paste. Wasn't available before.
Now it is. Not only can I add it as a track effect,
I could also add it as a clip effect.
So if I had one particular part of a clip,
let's just isolate this particular clip here.
I can actually paste it as a clip effect as well.
Look, and then that processor is only on that selected piece
of clip that I've chosen on track 2,
not the whole track as a track effect
Track effects affect everything on the track.
Clip effects affect only one individual little clip
like that, like the one I've cut out there
and popped out on the waveform.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, yes,
you can do it with multiple effects,
just hold down shift, select a couple of effects,
dynamics and parametric equalizer in this case,
go over to the secondary track,
and then hit Control or Command V. Boom!
So with markers saving you time when you're editing,
playback speed saving you time when you're playing back
and trying to edit, and copy and paste of effects
saving you time going into mixer views
and doing all kinds of crazy stuff like that.
Some pretty cool updates,
and I hope that it's a sign of things to come.
By the way, if you're really into Adobe Audition,
you should probably watch this video that's showing
up on your screen right now.
It's really cool, and it'll help you get even better
at editing in Adobe Audition.