V6 User Manual 1.00.book - Studio General

Auto Silence RemovalEdit > Automatic Silence RemovalAutomatic Silence Removal operates by scanning the Selection and then automatically editing it into smaller clipsby removing regions which fall below the threshold level and meet the ‘Minimal Sound’ and ‘Silence’ criteria set inthe Automatic Silence Removal dialog.Note: This function is non-destructive of the Media file - it edits the Clip by breaking itup into smaller Clips, not by deleting any actual audio from the hard drive.Threshold [dB]This field determines the threshold level in dB below which material in the clip will be removed.Minimal Silence [ms] / Minimal Sound [ms]Sets the shortest periods of silence and sound which can be created by removing material that drops below thethreshold. Some audio material (E.g. speech) contains very short gaps. If all of these were removed, the audiowould become too "chopped up". On speech the object of the exercise is usually to break it into areas wherespeech is present not remove small gaps between words or sentences. Some audio material may have very shorttransient peaks in the midst of a segment that falls below the threshold. If all of these short transients were createdas clips the end result might well sound worse than the original.The minimum setting is 10 ms and the maximum is 5000ms (5 seconds).Fade Out [ms] / Fade In [ms]Sets the length of the automatic Fade Out and Fade In that will be applied to all new clips created by the AutomaticSilence Removal operation. The range for this setting is between 5 ms and 500ms (1/2 second).Once the parameters have been set, click OK.Automatic Silence Removal dialogThis process takes into account the current Remove Mode to determine whether to leave gaps between thenewly created clips, or to join or ripple the clips on the track together.Automatic Silence Removal cannot be executed on cross-faded Clips.EDL Tab WindowThe EDL (Edit Decision List) Window, is a textual and numeric representation of the same information showngraphically in the Timeline and Fade Editor. Changes made here are reflected in the Timeline and vice-versa TheEditing : Auto Silence Removal 8 - 129