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Audio cleanup, bouncing to and from Audition
Aloha all,
I’ve got a rough cut of a short film ready. I did the cutting with the scratch track, and now I’ve gone back and synchronized all of the multitrack audio recordings from my Tascam DR-680. And I’ve discovered something… annoying.
If I double-click a video clip on the timeline, or an audio clip from the attached scratch track, it opens that entire original clip in the Source tab, with In and Out marked. But if I double-click an audio-only track, it opens just the portion of the original between the In and Out.
Likewise when I control-click and hit “Edit in Audition,” only the portion of the clip that’s highlighted on the Timeline opens.
Is there a way, a preference to change, that would convince the system to open the ENTIRE clip, with the In and Out intact? I want to do this for two reasons:
1. I record nat sound at the head and tail of each clip, so I can grab a noise print for cleanup
2. A lot of these clips get used more than once, and I’d prefer not to have to do repetitive work.
I know, I could open the source clips directly from my hard drive, and edit them there, then just relink. There’s a LOT of potential for error in that approach, though. I have thousands of files with very similar names, so the chances of me editing the wrong one, or relinking the wrong one, are pretty high.
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I’ve discovered a lovely quirk.
So, for my workflow, what I’ve begun doing is dragging the audio clips to an empty track, then stretching the head and tail. This ensures I can find a sample to use for noise reduction. I then control-click, Edit in Audition. I do the cleanup, save, then in Premiere trim the head and tail back to where they were and move the clip back into place.
Here’s the rub, though…
If I control-click and revert the audio to the original (maybe I was a little heavy-handed on the noise reduction), it moves the In point to wherever I stretched the clip pre-Audition, throwing the audio completely out of sync.
Imagine that the original audio file is 30 seconds long. The piece I used in the project was a clip that began at :15 and ended at :20. Before moving it to Audition, I stretched the In and Out so that the clip now runs from :10 to :25. I clean it in Audition, return to Premiere, then trim those extra seconds from the head and tail, and have the original length back, cleaned and synchronized.
But when I revert it to the non-edited clip, the In point shifts from :15 to :10, and the Out from :20 to :15. It keeps the same duration, but plays a different segment of the original file.
The difference between theory and reality is that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and reality.
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