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Premiere Pro/Soundbooth nondestructive Workflow
I’ve just started using Premiere Pro CS5. I have a few basic questions about audio:
(1) Premiere Pro has a lot of sound tools. How often is it necessary to go Soundbooth?
(2) Once you do go to Soundbooth, you lose the nondestructive nature of the edit, and suddenly you have large audio files to keep track of. Am I missing a trick here?
(3) One reason I see for going to Soundbooth ALL the time is that PP doesn’t let you zoom in to see waveforms close up so that you can make cuts right where the waveform crosses the zero line. Again, am I missing something here?
Thanks for your help!
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3 Replies
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Hi Tony, yes you are missing some tricks. To see the waveform in pp you put your mouse over the divide at the bottom of the track in the header (front bit of the timeline). Then you pill it down and you can see as large a waveform as you like. You just zoom in with the small slider at the bottom.
I have done a few tutorials on Soundbooth so if you check those you may find out some of the workflow a little better.
Hope this helps.
Andrew
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Thanks for your respone Andrew. I will check out your tutorials.
Two questions about what you said:
(1) You must be talking about the Source Monitor rather than the time line, correct? I cannot zoom in very far in the timeline, which is where I do my final editing.
(2) I’m getting very odd behavior in the Source Monitor. The larger the the Source Monitor window, the LESS I can zoom in. I have to make the window tiny before I can zoom in very far. I can then maximize it and the zoom level will stay. However, once I maximize it I cannot zoom in very far. Even with the maximum zoom I achieved, it’s not NEARLY as close as Soundbooth can zoom in.
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Ok, I found the trick: you have to choose Audio Time Units and then you can zoom in.
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