- Hello, I'm Mike Russell
from MusicRadioCreative.com.
In this video, I'll show you
how to get the most out of Adobe Audition
by teaching you all the sections
of the Adobe Audition preferences menu.
This is a mini-series.
Today I'm focusing on markers and metadata.
Let's dive in.
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Now in Audition, you can place things called markers,
and these are relevant in most audio editors.
They usually show where errors are
or edit points are in an audio file.
And if I go into the preferences menu,
control-comma, or command-comma on Mac,
and into markers and metadata,
you'll see here include markers and metadata by default
on save as or export.
You really want to leave that ticked,
because that means every time you go file save as,
it will include the markers and metadata
in the file you are saving.
If you don't have that ticked,
all these markers will be cleared,
and when you hand it off to the next person,
all the markers will be gone.
So, generally, I'd advise leaving that on.
Back in here, lock markers and metadata to the timeline.
Again, you want this unticked,
and I'll give you an example.
If I delete some of this audio,
watch these two markers here,
those two markers still stay in sync with the audio
that I wanted them to be on.
Let's undo this and move back up.
There we go.
Go back in, and we'll go ahead in markers and metadata
and tick that, so they're locked in time.
And now when I delete, everything budges up,
and the markers are no longer selecting on the audio,
but they've budged to some silent piece of audio.
So really, very undesirable,
particularly if you're trying to mark edit points
in a podcast.
So, untick that and keep it as is,
and we'll just undo that little edit there.
So we are back to normal
with our markers indicated by the little tabs at the top
and the lines across the waveform.
Now we'll go back in.
And for some reason,
I always love minimizing Adobe Audition.
It's actually control-comma, not control-M.
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I'm thinking of markers.
Or command-comma on your Mac.
Back in here, include, sorry,
add marker changes to undo history.
You really want this ticked.
And the reason why is:
if I go into the history panel,
which is just nice and big, just above me here,
and I add some markers, all those markers will be added
into my history, so I can go back and undo those actions
if I should need to.
So really, it's a handy thing to leave enabled,
because markers become part of your undo history.
Then we've got include markers when performing
a cut or copy.
Yes, by default, we want this.
If I copy this audio,
so control- or command-C,
start a new audio file, control- or command-V,
those markers are then included in the copy.
So, very handy thing to have.
And again, back into Audition,
very much into having things minimized at the moment.
Right, let's go back in
and back into markers and metadata,
show marker lines in the editor panel display.
Untick this and, boom, all the marker lines go.
They just show up here at the top.
So really, we definitely want that ticked
'cause it makes them more visible.
Include markers and metadata in recordings
and multitrack mixdowns.
So, if I were have this in a multitrack session...
Let's create a multitrack session. Bring that in.
There are the markers.
If I was to then go ahead
and multitrack mixdown the entire session,
it's not got any of those markers there
when I have mixed it down.
Include markers and metadata in recordings
and multitrack mixdowns.
So ideally, we want that to be in the recordings
and multitrack mixdowns.
So if I was to go ahead and now place markers
in the multitrack,
let's do that, where those current markers are,
or roughly where they are,
you will see that now when I mix down,
all those markers will be included.
If I had that unticked...
Let's go back into Adobe Audition.
And so let's go into the markers and metadata
and show include markers and metadata in recordings
and multitrack mixdowns.
Now, when I go ahead and mix down this session to file,
none of those markers are included.
So let's tick that back on.
Embed edit original link data in multitrack mixdowns.
You want to leave this ticked,
particularly if you're working in Adobe Premiere Pro.
What this will allow you to do
is go ahead and edit the original
in a multitrack inside Adobe Audition.
So if you made some real changes in Audition
and then, using direct link,
you brought it back into Premiere,
you'll have all that data retained.
Otherwise, if you untick this,
none of that data is retained,
and that's really not a good idea.
Metadata display on the files panel...
If I click this, this will just show you
what is available to you as metadata for your audio files.
If I untick duration and click okay,
duration is gone now from my files panel.
So generally, I want this all clicked.
Most of your stuff is all ticked here.
And you wanna leave that as so,
but you can remove stuff maybe you don't need
like the access order or frame rate
or anything, but by general,
I would leave this default.
Metadata panel, that's another kettle of fish
that will load up a panel over here
to add your ID3 tags or other tags.
And you can, again, choose what's appearing
on your metadata panel here.
You'll know if something is necessary or not
if you work with metadata,
but generally, I leave this as default.
Handy here are the default names for new Q markers.
Usually they're markers, but we can call them "Q" instead.
Click okay.
And now I add a marker in, M, and it's Q1, Q2.
I can even go into the preferences menu again,
markers and metadata, and I can call it "Mike"
and click okay, and then it's gonna make all my markers
Mike 3, Mike 4, Mike 5.
But by default, of course,
you would go into the marker here,
and generally I would call this a marker.
So let's call that "marker."
And finally, in this very minimized session,
I keep hitting the control-M instead of comma,
definitely got a bit of a slip today on the keyboard.
Default CD track pause.
This is very, very old-school.
If you're still writing CDs, what century are you living in?
But yes, by default,
you can leave a pause of two seconds between tracks on a CD.
You can increase or decrease that if you wish,
but by default, I'm not even gonna change that.
I don't write CDs anymore.
Hopefully, that's helped you
with your markers and your metadata,
but not your minimizing,
which, as you've probably learned,
is control-M in this video, or command-M on a Mac.
Yeah, let me know what you think in the comments down below.
And if you want to learn more about Adobe Audition,
do go and enroll in one of my courses
they're all available at mrc.fm/learn
that is mrc.fm/learn.
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