Sound Advice: Slick Tricks
Digital audio editing has been around longer than digital video, and pretty much everyone has edited some kind of audio at one time or another. Those who have know all the standard tricks: normalizing, trimming and basic EQ. But what do you do when the tried and true isn't enough anymore? How do you solve those complicated audio mysteries on time and under budget? This month's Sound Advice looks at four audio situations and the advanced editing techniques required to move your project forward.
While it's possible to do a great deal of audio editing in today's video editing packages, specialized tasks are better addressed by dedicated audio software, such as Adobe Audition, Sony Sound Forge, Magix Samplitude, Bias Peak and even the freeware Audacity. But first, you need to know how to export audio from your video project. Every package is different, but Premiere Pro uses an Export Audio function in the File menu. By checking and unchecking the speaker icons beside each audio track, it's easy to export only the audio you want for editing. Save the file in a 16-bit, 48kHz uncompressed format and you're ready to load it into your audio editing sof…
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