Add Strip Silence Feature
Add a feature similar to Logic Pro X's Strip Silence. Select a track in multitrack, select the new Strip Silence feature, add a few parameters and it cuts out all parts of the track that fall below a certain volume for a certain amount of time. All existing audio stays in the same place (it doesn't ripple delete anything). There are a few features already in Audition that can identify the beginning/end of silence and will place markers, but nothing will auto-delete the silence.
This is an EXTREMELY useful feature for podcast editing (allow the person to more easily move around actual dialog because all the silence has been deleted) and is the only reason I still use Logic Pro X in many cases when editing podcasts.
Brian Reyman
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Thanks for the request. I’ve seen this come up several times and certainly appreciate the value in breaking up long clips into smaller bits which can be more easily manipulated and edited. I believe we have an open item in the feature backlog, but I’ll double check and add your notes.
20 comments
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Luke Baumgarten
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Ugh. I mean I'm a noob but two months into podcasting the need is obvious.
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Gilbert Tang
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It's been nearly two years since that original post, and with Adobe having released their spring update I'm not too confident this is making the cut for this year (no pun intended). It's a real shame. People are clamoring for this feature, especially for podcast editing. I've said it my previous post, but I'll say it again: this is the single biggest bottleneck to most quality podcasting workflows. We are used to working with discrete dialog clips and simply removing silence/noise where a speaker isn't talking is the easiest way to clean up a show while also asking much less of our effects chain without all the pitfalls of dealing with (or even enhancing) noise that doesn't need to be there in the first place. Please, please let people know.
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Luke Baumgarten
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Any movement on this? I need this feature DESPERATELY
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Mike Cooper
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Considering a switch from Pro Tools (for the macros and such) but now I've discovered there's no way to strip silence and create regions/clips in multitrack, this may be dead in the water for me…
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Michael Hotten
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Us Podcasters need Strip Silence!
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Sean Kravit
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+1 for this feature. Please implement Strip Silence!!
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Gilbert Tang
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I cannot emphasize how important this feature would be to my podcast editing workflow in particular. This feature alone (aside from multicore support, massively improved playback speed control, a dedicated fade command that works in multitrack and/or isn’t relegated to a razor preset) would save dramatic, dramatic amounts of time. Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, and even Ferrite on iOS have this feature so it’s mind blowing that Audition doesn’t support it. Audition’s implementation of scanning for silence is effectively useless for the purposes of an initial cleanup of the workflow. It’s too rigid, it only works in destructive waveform view, and it’s best used as basically a failsafe to ensure no blank spaces are there just before mastering the final file. People who mix live drummers also deeply appreciate this feature, and in fact recently Logic Pro X’s version of strip silence became much less usable for the purposes of dialogue because it zooms the whole track into a window and is much better tuned for music. This is part of why Logic is an overall pain for podcast production, even if several parties out there bend it to their will. Pro Tools has the best, fastest, most clear implementation by far. Ferrite’s is okay. Please, please get this feature going. Some edits for panel type shows can easily take me seven minutes for every minute of audio with the biggest bottleneck being the management of silence when someone isn’t speaking. I’m already at the point where I want to switch DAWs because of how much I can increase my productivity using other tools.
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Justin Mattioli
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Yikes...it has been a year and a half since this was put up and nothing. That's really lame. Removing silence in multitrack manually is cumbersome...
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WALTER NAESLUND
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Hi! Checking back on this again. Any progress on this feature?
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BEN UPSON
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I'm considering switching from Audition to Pro tools because of this, purely for work flow.. or at least having the option to work on Pro tools if needed.
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Walter
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We seriously considered switching from Logic to Audition for all our podcast editing but stopped in our tracks when we realized (in disbelief) that this vital featured seemed to be missing. Is there really no such feature in Audition? Our workflow depends on it.
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Bkeys
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I'd love to find out where we are with this feature. Maybe I missed it?
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Garret
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I switched to Logic because this feature is missing. Although I would gladly switch back if the feature is added!
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Shane
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Please dear Audition, I don't want to leave you but no strip silence is killing me. This would save me so much time with editing podcasts.
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Anonymous
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This would be amazing. It'd save so much time when editing podcasts in Audition!
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Shane
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I would absolutely love this feature!
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Garret
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Much like others, I have to use Audacity first because the feature isn't available in Audition. I recently downloaded a trial of Pro Tools and I'm considering switching to streamline my work flow.
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Anonymous
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This is the only reason I have Pro Tools. I do a lot of voice overs for e-learning, and then I edit them to separate files. Please hurry 😊
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Anonymous
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I want this!
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Brian Reyman
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Great, thanks for the consideration Durin. And, thanks for an amazing editor. I love Audition - this is one of the only features I really miss when using it.