- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, we're looking at the multitrack clip section
of the preferences menu in Adobe Audition.
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Here I am in the multitrack because this section
is all about the preferences section multitrack clips here.
Now to bring this up really quickly,
it's Control or Command if you're on a Mac,
and the comma key.
And you'll see here multitrack clips,
and we've got lots of different stuff to get through.
So let's start with synchronized clips with Waveform Editor.
It is good in my opinion, to keep that ticked
as when you bring something into the multitrack,
let's bring some audio in.
And you zoom in say, to the 14 second point like that.
When I double click and go to waveform
it zoomed in and at the 14 second point.
Again, if I zoom out and I go over to the 32nd point
and double click, it's now zoomed out,
and at the 32nd point.
If I change this behavior, going to multitrack clips
and untick that option, when I go into multitrack,
it doesn't matter where I zoom to,
the six second point and place my cursor.
When I double click,
it does not happen in the waveform view.
It retains whatever you were doing in waveform.
So if I'm zoomed in and highlighted there,
it's not gonna automatically do it in the multitrack.
So it unlinks that behavior.
So usually I like that ticked.
Use embedded time code
when inserting clips into the multitrack.
Now, you only need to worry about this
if you're using BWF or XMP files
with time code information embedded.
If you're using that stuff,
particularly if you're working with video,
you will know exactly what that means,
and it will just embed everything
into the correct place in a multitrack.
But on a day-to-day basis, I don't really use that.
And you'll know if you do need that.
But usually, you should leave it ticked.
Automatically cross fade overlapping clips.
Well, you definitely want this,
as when you're editing a podcast, for instance,
here in the multitrack and you overlay those clips
you'll see these yellow lines indicate a cross fade.
So instead of just a hard cut,
you get a cross fade between the track.
So I can make an edit here,
and that will fade out this track
and fade in this separate track.
If I go in and disable that,
of course, next time I go to make some edits
like an edit here, and I try to overlap these tracks,
no cross fading occurs here as did there before, okay?
So back and definitely you wanna have that one enabled.
Bring clips to the front when selecting them.
Okay, when I select that, whenever I select a clip,
look, it brings it to the front.
It pops it to the front.
That is not default behavior, and I quite like it like that.
So untick.
Now when I select a clip,
see the rest of the clip underneath
is not popping to the front, it's underneath,
and you can't see it.
So again, I just leave that as it is unticked.
Scale waveform when adjusting clip gain,
definitely you want this ticked.
What that means is when you are adjusting the clip gain
using, and let me zoom right in so you can see it,
this little icon down here,
it's at the bottom of every clip.
When I adjust the gain,
it makes the waveform bigger or smaller.
You definitely want this
if you're importing low volume audio,
and you want to make it bigger.
It's nice to be able to see the waveform
that you're working with inside the multitrack.
If you do not have that ticked,
then whenever you move that it will change the volume
but it won't scale the waveform.
So definitely go ahead and make sure that's ticked.
Now, when you're inserting multiple clips,
do you want them all on the same track
or all on their own track?
I usually say all on the same track.
And the reason for that is simply,
I import a lot of sound effects
from my media browser or music beds and bits like that.
So say I went in here and I went into sound effects
and I bought in loads of BP sound effects.
Let's grab a ton of them here,
and they'll all come in onto one track.
My sound effects track, that's handy for me,
but sometimes you're importing a podcast
with multiple tracks and you want them on different tracks,
you choose the other behavior.
You can always change this, by the way, by dragging.
And before you drop, hold down the Alt
or option key of your Mac,
and you seen now it's dropping them onto separate tracks.
So it really does depend what you prefer.
But in my case, I'm ticking the first option
add all selected files to the same track.
And the first time you drag multiple tracks
into the multitrack, it's gonna ask you anyway,
which behavior you'd like.
But you can always change it here in preferences.
And then when inserting multiple audio channels,
add them all to the same clip
or distribute them across multiple clips.
So what this means is if you have something recorded
in 5.1 surround, look at this
with a left, a right, and all the other bits
that go with surround sound.
By default, when you drag this in,
it's just gonna go onto one track in the multitrack.
You can change the behavior either in the preferences menu
or by holding down Alt or option.
And boom, it'll start inserting everything
on its own separate track.
So it really depends
what's best for your own use case there.
And then finally, default clip stretch mode is real time.
That is when you are stretching out clips,
time stretching them.
So if I take this sound effect,
let's actually solo this track.
And what you need to do is have this option,
toggle global clip stretching enabled.
Then you get these white triangles here.
And when I pull that out and stretch it by 800%,
it does a real time render.
It takes no time at all to stretch that clip.
Whereas if I go back in and switch on rendered high quality,
it's gonna be a higher quality stretch,
but it's going to take longer to do it.
So let's do this on another clip here, stretch out
and you see it's taking longer to process that stretch.
So generally I tend to leave that on the real time
as I like to work fast in the multitrack.
And really, I don't think
the difference is that significant.
If you wanna learn even more about Adobe Audition,
I highly encourage you to go and check out my courses
at mrc.fm/learn.
That is mrc.fm/learn.
And if you need any help with the multitrack clip section
of the preferences menu,
let me know in the comments down below.
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