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| Re: Adobe soundbooth? [message #80949 is a reply to message #80940] |
Fri, 02 March 2007 02:20  |
rick
Messages: 1976
Registered: February 2006
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Soundbooth in its current state is an asset-editor. Where Audition has
multi-track editing and recording functionality, a host of analytical
tools and scientific filters, and is intended to be the primary
application in a production, Soundbooth is designed to assist other
applications. We found that video and animation production houses
rarely had a full-time audio engineer, and frequently needed to send
audio work out to a third-party. With long turnarounds and a tendency
for audio to get overlooked in the budgeting process, it was getting
the short end of the stick. Soundbooth was designed to make it easy
for these video and motion graphics designers to perform most of the
basic audio tasks themselves.
Both applications have excellent waveform editors, offer spectral
frequency editing, a host of built-in effects, high quality
resampling, file conversion, etc. Soundbooth also has some features
that Audition 2.0 does not: on-screen, non-destructive fades,
state-based editing, loop adjustment, and one of our favorites,
Automated backing soundtracks. This allows for "stock" music, but of a
dynamic length with actual song structure, intros and outros, and
keyframable control.
While we acknowledge that Soundbooth is a simpler application, useful
to beginners, we also feel it's powerful enough that more advanced
users will enjoy it as well. Obviously, it won't substitute for a
comprehensive multi-track environment, or for users who want to route
through their external effects rack and control their ReWire and Midi
devices, but those guys already have a pretty good grasp of the tools
and terms, and are comfortable in the applications they already use.
As for porting Audition to the Mac, it's something we have looked
into, and that users have been vocal about wanting. I can't say for
certain what the future holds, but Audition is based off a decade of
Windows-specific code and would take a considerable amount of work and
time to port. While I can't speak for the rest of the team or Adobe, I
personally would like to see that time and effort put into helping
Soundbooth reach feature parity with Audition. Different name, similar
functionality, but with the improved workflow concepts that Soundbooth
has introduced and multi-platform support.
Durin Gleaves
Adobe Soundbooth QE
On 2 Mar 2007 17:07:49 +1000, "James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com>
wrote:
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>Has anybody tried Adobe SoundBooth?
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>http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundbooth/
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