This is a super cool tool in Adobe Audition you can use to automatically edit down and shorten silences in an audio track. Massively helpful to get a headstart editing long-form spoken-word audio such as audiobooks etc.
I do reddit readings too and I've gotten everything else so dialed in that these gaps are my only main nemesis left to a speedier editing workflow. Thank you so much! I've actually tried to search multiple times for a plugin to do this without any success. Looks like like I'm shopping for some new software and didn't manage to completely avoid the Adobe ecosphere like I had hoped. Edit: ... I got it all set up and dialed in... you just saved me hours every week! Thank you so much, you rock!
I literally have no idea how I’ve been into VO work for the last month and have JUST discovered your channel. NOT ONLY THAT, but that material on your channel has saved me SO much time and heartache trying to figure all of this out myself. Thank you so much for helping us noobs out and being so awesome!!
This seems very helpful! For anyone wanting to do this in Reaper, try the action "Auto Trim/Split Items". To shorten the silence instead of completely deleting it, use trailing pad and leading pad that add up to the silence you want to be left with. For example, to leave 450 ms silence, use 225 ms for both leading pad and trailing pad. You probably want to uncheck "fade pad", but I'm just getting into all this.
This is awesome. I work at a radio station and one of our programs that we run which is an hour long per show, has had terrible gaps between sentences, some over 4 seconds long... Which sets off alarms. This saved me so much headache.
I had just finished recording a BUNCH of stuff that was gonna be over an hour worth of editing down - found this and was like 'GODSEND' - to then figure out that in multitrack view - you can only delete the silences - not reduce them! So I then spent the next 45 minutes figuring out a better way to then remember 'hang on a minute, he was in single track view.....what if.....OH COME ON' Thanks a bunch for helping otherse out with this time saving tip - despite me having kind of spent more time on it now? But for future, totally gonna be working on this method going forward!
That was super helpful! Thank you sincerely for creating it! Is there a way you could make the text sharper and more easily readable as you click on different areas and use the drop down menu so we can more easily read what you are clicking on? Thank you, kindly! Keep up the wonderful work!
is there a way to batch process audio files to shorten the leading and trailing silences. (no silence is in the middle) Also would lithe process to export and overwrite original at the same time? So load files, perform silence shorten (leading/trailing) , export/overwrite. I have backup copies on another drive hence the reason for overwrite. Now the next question would be how to perform another batch process to add silence to leading/trailing audio files if there wasn't any.
Very usefull tips, but what if i need to add silence throught the sentence, let's say i want to let the audience breath during long story. Can i add auto-silence in adobe?
While this process can, obviously save a lot of time in post, the glaring pitfall I can see (and have actually been impacted by) in using this method is that any timing choices the narrator may have made that are outside the parameters set by the editor have now been trashed. I would posit that this should -never- be used on punch-and-roll audio, in which presumably, all the timing choices made by the narrator are preserved, and any pauses that occurred due to errors have already been eliminated.
when i head to the fix by section under the diagnostics, i am only presented with two options: Split silence or Strip silence. I am unable to locate shorten silence, would it be possible to assist me in locating the missing feature?
There is 2 schools of though on that. Typically you edit first then master last. However if you master first then edit you hear more of what your final product would be like. It also depends on whether you are destructively editing or in a project. Personally and slightly controversially I would at least do the majority of the mastering before the edit in a project where this technique is used. Just remember, Backup everything! lol
What about if I'm editing in multitracks a 3 mics conversation? Is there a way to do it without loosing the sync between tracks? My only solution is to do this as my final step after having mixed down the multitrack.. on the single wave form like you did
