The easiest way to use this is to click and drag across the portion of the clip you want to delete. The Time Selection tool (shortcut: T) allows you to select regions of a clip to delete, or copy. NOTE: To avoid problems with clips getting out of sync, if you are working with clips on multiple tracks, the Time Selection tool may be a better choice. To delete the selected clip and close the gap, press Shift+Delete. To delete a clip, or a portion of a clip, select it and press the Delete key. Then, position the Razor Blade where you want to cut and click. (Type R to toggle between the different settings of this tool.
The Razor Blade (shortcut: R) allows you to cut a single clip, all selected clips, or all clips on all tracks at the position you click. The tools we need for trimming are in the Toolbar at the top of the Audition window. Depending upon the sample rate, you can trim to 1/48,000th of a second! However, audio can be trimmed with MUCH greater precision. 30 fps video can be trimmed to 1/30th of a second). In video editing, we trim to the frame (i.e. So, in this article, I want to look more specifically about how Audition allows us to trim clips. Recently, I wrote a First Look at Adobe Audition CS6 ( read it here). Just as we trim clips in video editing, we also need to trim clips in audio editing. Now enable REMIX on the remaining sections.Trimming is the process of adjusting where two clips touch. Select the RAZOR tool and cut the track at the start and end of the section you want to keep. Let's say we don't want to mess with the beat break in a song you want to use. If there is a section of music that you don't want REMIX to mess with, then exclude that section from REMIX by trimming it. The allows REMIX to make tighter mixes and won't account for any extra dead space. Here are a few tips for even more fine tuning:Īlways remember to trim your song of any silence at the start or end of the misuc. If you need the duration to be an exact time, check the "Stretch to exact duration" box and REMIX will slightly stretch the song to that duration without altering the pitch. This leeway lets REMIX make better transitions. Try this if some of the transitions or crossfades sound unnatural.įinally, Minimum Slack constrains the remix duration to as close to the duration you set as possible. Minimum Loop lets you dial in the minimum number of beats allowed for REMIX to break a segment of music. Very beat heavy songs usually do better moving the slider towards timbre where harmonic style songs would be better suited with harmonic emphasis. The Features slider tells REMIX to listen more to the timbre or rhythmic elements in the song, or listen to the Harmonic structure when doing its magic. If your song stays the same most of the time then you can keep the Edit Length set for longer segments. If you have a song that changes constantly during playback trying shorter segments will usually yield a better REMIX result. Andanced ControlĮdit Length tells remix to use more edit segments in close proximity or fewer edits further apart. Notice those wavy lines? That's where REMIX created an edit point of the original song so you can listen to the transition and hear if it works for your project.