[Anna Haas]

You need to find the an isolated area on you sound file that has the sound that you want to eliminate and highlight this area.

Then using the Clean Up Audio select Capture Noise Print. This will record the noise that you don’t want as a selection to be used for cleaning the file. This is the important step and you need to make a fine area to use that only captures the unwanted noise. It take some trial and error until you find the sweet spot that eliminates the sound and at times is never a quick solution.

Then go to Noise and using the slider with the preview running you can adjust it until the unwanted noise is gone without adding artifact noise to the file or any distortion.

I use Audition which has a very strong filtering section of noises. If this is something that you think you will encounter often in the future than it might be good to invest in Audition to use rather than Sound Booth which is not as effective in manipulation controls. You have more personal control in Audition. But if this is just a one time thing than no need to buy more than you need to.

Frustrated in Seattle

[Anna Haas]

You can also after making your careful selection of the area inverse the selection (that will chose the part you want) and do a copy and a paste. This will cause a new layer to be made of just the selection on a transparent background. You will still have the original below that you can use to clean up any areas that are missing. You then can output the file in a transparent file such as a PNG or Giff which will allow you to use it transparently in a website. Or if you do a mask of the layer you can use it transparently in After Effects. In either case when you are finished you can chose to hide the unwanted layers or merely delete them.

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[Anna Haas]

I agree that in some instances this can be an advantage if adding certain things to a track.
We do Audio Dramas and sometimes we would like it if the clip we just cut was just that portion if we want to add something like an echo or an effect to just the clip that we cut and not an entire track. We have done some work around methods around this but to be able to have a smaller chuck of audio would save time.

Frustrated in Seattle

[Anna Haas]

I already have Audition 3.0
Like most of us just excited to see new additions to any of my programs to enhance the output. I love Audition 3.0 but it does have a few things that could be changed and improved upon such as when cutting a clip in multiple track mode it should be a clip of its own when taken into the edit mode instead of it still being a part of a large chunk. When we do a cut in Premiere it becomes just that piece and editable. If I want to add and effect in Audition to a clip we have to take care that we only apply to the area we actually want. Just little items like that which would make life simpler.
Hopefully they will come out with a newer version at some point. don’t care if it is part of a suite or not..

Frustrated in Seattle

[Anna Haas]

I went to the white papers at Adobe and found their recommendation on the problem. I did have to uninstall as you said. It seems that if you have Premiere CS3 on your machine when you install the CS4 version and then uninstall the CS3 version after wards then it does some magical twisting of the program. This requires that you uninstall CS4 and then go through a large pot of coffee and a box of doughnuts while you put CS4 back on the machine. What fun! Now it is working very smoothly and I still have a fair amount of my hair left as well…

Frustrated in Seattle

[Anna Haas]

I am having the same problem. I worked around this by opening the Premiere Project in After Effects as a comp then rendered the comp to an Avi file. You can bring it back to the encoder and it will do the conversion. Stupid way to do things but it worked. Especially when I had to pay too much for the suite upgrade I was hoping for more.

Frustrated in Seattle