Increasing waveform height in timeline WITHOUT increasing track height

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Increasing waveform height in timeline WITHOUT increasing track height

Posted by Jonathan Wing on March 31, 2014 at 4:14 pm

Hi there,
I’ve been searching everywhere and I can’t seem to find an answer to this. Most suggestions to make the waveform height larger involve increasing the track height. But for example, in Avid, you can keep the track height small but increase the actual size of the waveform peaks, which is great for quiet audio, like for example quiet music that you’d still like to cut to the beat and easily spot the peaks, without having to make the track height massive to do so.

Oddly, if I match over to the source side, there are these little handles that let me resize the waveforms beautifully without changing the height, but not on the timeline side… Any ideas?

Thanks!

Mike Cohen replied 11 years, 10 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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Peter Garaway
March 31, 2014 at 4:30 pm

I can ask the audio guys but I’m not aware of that option in the Timeline. Another idea would be to ‘Gang Source and Program’ monitor and have the Source monitor display the Audio waveform.

The ‘Gang Source and Program’ option is located in the Program or Source monitor wing menu.

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro
Gerard Tay
March 31, 2014 at 6:05 pm

One thing you could do is to use the audio gain tool while you are cutting the scene. It will alter the resulting volume of the clips but the audio gain tool will change the volume and waveform of the clip.

I use the gain tool almost exclusively and I find this quite useful when I am doing a rough audio mix as I am able to have a good indication of how loud or soft a scene is, which is something I can’t do in Avid as the size of the waveforms can mean different levels.
Gregg Ford
June 27, 2014 at 6:34 pm

How can this be.
I have the sound from the camera on the track and then the audio from the separate source is almost IMPOSSIBLE to see.

This worked fine in CS5 on a MAC.

Now I am all CC and on an intel… Garbage!

Looks inverted as well.
Does the team at Adobe Premiere an Audition not talk to each other?

There does not seem to be a fix for this anywhere.
Mike Cohen
August 21, 2014 at 6:05 pm

I too have this problem, and so far it does not appear there is a solution.
In CS6 you could zoom in on the sequence, and the audio waveform would provide for resolution, but in CC you just get an unusable mess of waveform all mushed together. Surely this was an oversight.

Making the track height taller fixes the issue, but editing on a laptop, for example, you only have so much height available.Editing on a 36″ monitor, no problem, but it will be difficult to take such a large monitor on the plane!

Thanks

Mike Cohen

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