Creative Digital Media Production Unit 12: Audio Editing

- Lesson 2

Find definitions for the following terms...

Soundbites A short bit of music or speech extracted

from a long clip.
Regions A portion of an audio file.
Timelines A place where you put an audio file in you edit.
Waveforms A curve showing the shape of the wave at the
tim.
Levels Line level is the specified strength of an audio
signal used to transmit analog sound between
audio components such as CD and DVD players,
television sets, audio amplifiers, and mixing
consoles.
Fades The gradual increase or decrease of audio
signal.
Track Overlay Include background tracks by overlaying audio
files.

What are the three main techniques utilised by sound editors?

1. Cutting, joining and fading.
2. Topping and tailing. (removing unwanted material from the
beginning and end of regions)
3. Removing click, breathing sounds, pauses from the body within
the body of regions.

List three pieces of audio editing software...

1. Adobe Audition
2. Audacity
3. Pro Tools