Hart's Dynamic Media Blog

I'm leaving to catch my plane in just a few minutes to spend the week in Las Vegas for the NAB show. When I tell most people I'm about to spend a week in Vegas, the response is almost always, "How fun!" but of course the reality is less glamorous (especially because I’m really not a big gambler). Still, I’m excited for the show because while we've been out showing the Adobe Production Studio (and of course, Audition) since January, this is the first really large show where it will be seen. Adobe will have another large presence this year in booth SL3732, which is closer to the South hall entrance where Avid and Apple work as hard as possible to deafen each other's customers.

Make sure to stop by to say hi if you’re there this year! I'll be in the booth quite a bit as will a bunch of members of the Audition team. You can read about all the things Adobe will be doing at NAB here and make sure to check out the theater schedule here so that you can make sure to hit all the shows that matter to you. I hope to see you in Vegas!

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I've known about field reporters using Audition to record and edit their pieces and email them in, but this Radio World article explores some of the flexibility that the new wireless broadband cards give reporters. (Not Wi-Fi cards that require a hotspot, but the ones that tap into the cell networks.) Jim Ryan, the author, talks about how he's able to use his station's car as a mobile newsroom, recording, editing, and submitting pieces via FTP from wherever he happens to be for the story. It's an interesting glimpse into the possibilities that open up when you have an always-connected computer.

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Bob, one of my "partners in crime" for the Asia-Pacific Adobe video seminar tour, has posted a short how-to on using Audition for looping in Flash and video work. It's probably a bit basic for Audition experts, but it is a nice introduction on the basics of how looping works in Audition and would be a great reference for new users.

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In a comment on my last post Peter pointed out that the Wavepack filter also works in Audition 2. Wavepack gives another nice alternative to folks wanting to create audio files with lossless compression, and it has support for markers as well.

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I just got word that James over at vuplayer.com has confirmed that his .flt format plug-ins that he originally wrote for Cool Edit are working fine in Audition 2.0! I believe that in particular the FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) plug-in will be really useful to some folks, but James also has his own implementations of audio export for Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Audio, QuickTime, and MOD music. If you like them, he simply asks for a donation so please make his day if you find them useful!

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I came into my office after lunch today to find a copy of the brand-new Classroom in a Book for Audition 2.0 sitting on my chair. It's so hot off the presses I could swear I could feel the heat radiating from it when I picked it up.

For those of you who aren't familiar, the Classroom in a Book series is an Adobe-produced set of training materials that aims to provide a methodical teaching method for learning applications (as opposed to the manuals, which are much more specific how-to and reference oriented.) Chapters even end with review questions and answers for that "I'm back in school" feeling. If only school had always been this fun, huh?

I haven't read it yet, but the CRiaB for version 1.5 got great reviews from a bunch of customers and I know that our QA team scanned through this one during its review process so I think it'll be another great resource for anyone wanting to learn how to use Audition. A list of the chapter titles gives a good idea of what to expect:

• A Quick Tour of Adobe Audition
  
• Audition Basics
  
• Working in Edit View
  
• Working in Multitrack View
  
• Working with Loops and Waves
  
• Noise Reduction
  
• Editing Voices
  
• Mixing and Real-Time Effects
  
• Using Audition's Equalization Tools
  
• Using Audition's Automation Tools
  
• Optimizing Audio for the Internet
  
• Using the CD View
  
• Integrating Adobe Audition and Premiere Pro
  

It looks like there's a confirmed release date of April 19th, and you'll be able to pick it up directly from the Adobe Press or from your favorite book seller.

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ABC News has a rundown from PC Magazine on video solutions and talks about Adobe Production Studio as the best pro-level solution. I see these sorts of mentions a lot but this one caught my imagination because it includes the phrase, “Those ready to wrestle footage to the ground with their own bare hands…” I like the image of “bare handed editing” as some sort of new extreme sport, maybe with its own slot in the X-Games.

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Frank Moldstad from Digital Media Net has written a article on how to use the new Spectral Display Controls in Audition 2. In short, they give full control over which colors are used to represent the audio in the Spectral Frequency Display which allows you to tweak the colors to bring out contrast and see individual sounds more accurately for editing with the marquee or lasso tools. But Frank goes into a bit more detail!

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