Edit Suite: Editing Digital Audio

When I began editing video the medium's primitive audio capability disappointed me. I had worked with eight or more tracks of film sound. Suddenly I had only two; and laying those tracks was a tedious business.

The shock was even greater when I moved from professional equipment to consumer gear in a video production classroom: A/B roll was hit or miss and post-syncing dialogue was painful. As for complex, multi-layered sound tracks, New Yorkers have the apt response: fuhgeddaboudit!

So I was stoked when I first encountered a nonlinear editing timeline, with its ability to wrangle dozens of audio tracks, just like film! I found two new features that even film audio lacke…

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