Zoom Zoom Zoom
There are probably 1,000 shortcuts and speedy ways to do things in Audition that long-time users take for granted but that new users don’t know about. One thing that came up while I was on the Asia-Pacific seminar tour was all the ways that you can quickly zoom into different parts of your waveform or session in Audition. I did a quick right-click-drag on a ruler in the course of demoing Frequency Space Editing, and the person I was watching the demo stopped me to ask what had just happened. So, here’s some tips for quick navigation.
- Everyone sees the zoom palette with the different zoom buttons as the first way to zoom. It’s fine and gives you options, but I basically never use it except, perhaps, the zoom out full button:
- My favorite is using the mouse wheel to zoom. In the Edit View hover over the waveform and roll the wheel on the mouse to zoom around wherever the mouse cursor is. In the Multitrack view, hover over the ruler. (In Multitrack, rolling the mouse wheel over the waveforms scrolls the tracks instead of zoom, and over the track controls it zooms into each track instead of in time). In either view you can also hover over the portion bar (the green bar at the top of the Main panel) and roll your mouse wheel to zoom.
- Speaking of the portion bar, you can also click and drag on its edges to change your zoom.
- Finally, what sparked this discussion is that you can right-click and drag on any ruler to define an area to zoom to. This is my favorite: I see something I want to zoom in on so I right-click drag, then when I’m done, I roll my mouse wheel back to zoom back out. It really speeds up my editing. I also use it all the time in Spectral Frequency View on both axes to look at single sound for editing.
Comments
If you add a keyboard short cut for zoom out full (Ctrl 0 works well photoshop & most other programs use it) and one for zoom to selection (Ctrl shift 0) then you can close the zoom pallet for more screen space.
Posted by: Carl Marten | July 24, 2006 10:03 AM
I'm not aware of any problems in our zooming in 2.0--I'd suggest you post on our user-to-user forums at www.adobeforums.com and see if the other users can work out what's happening with your system.
Posted by: Hart Shafer | May 16, 2006 10:50 PM
ADOBE AUDITION 2. IN MULTITRACK WHEN I ZOOMING IT DOES still. IT IS A PROBLEM. PLEASE HELP ME.
WITH THIS VERSION PROBLEM'S AND OTHER ETC, I DISAPPOINTED FROM USE THIS VERSION.
Posted by: roorast | May 15, 2006 8:13 AM
HI. WHEN I PLAY VIDEO IN MILLTI TRACK AND ZOOMING , A.A 2 NO SUPPORT WELL.IT HAS DROP AND FREE.
Posted by: mohsen | April 7, 2006 2:23 AM
I've gradually converted myself to using the zoom wheel. The only reason for this is that I've found that I can actually get there faster!
Posted by: Steve Garnett | March 15, 2006 2:27 AM
Personally I'm a keyboard shortcut zoomer - I have L and R set to zoom to left and right edge of selection, and F6 and F7 for general zoom in and out. But I do still miss the old "zoom to last zoom level" option in CE2000....
Posted by: Peter Nicholls | March 9, 2006 2:16 AM