From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1

Displaying and adjusting waveforms - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1

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Displaying and adjusting waveforms

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- [Instructor] Another important way for you to review the contents of sequence is to view the waveforms for your audio. To access these, I'm going to click on this little triangle just to the right of the timecode display. Let me just click on this to expand the controls in the track header. It's a tiny button, but it gives you access to some very important controls. In particular, for each track, I'm interested in these little tiny waveform buttons. I'm going to click to turn on the waveform display for the audio two track, and just to draw your attention to it, I've got a one listed on the left here but that's the available audio track for the clip in my source monitor up here. It's the buttons on the right that control the tracks in the sequence. And now that I've enabled the waveform display, you can see it appears on this clip on that track. I can enable it for the audio one, track two. It may be that you're working on particularly quiet audio, or for that matter, particularly loud audio. So there's a useful keyboard shortcut to increase the height or decrease the height of the waveforms. This has no impact whatsoever on the sound, it's just for you to monitor that particular shape as displayed in the timeline window. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Alt on Windows or Cmd+Opt on Mac OS and the L or K keys. You can press K multiple times to make these much smaller, or L multiple times to make them much bigger. And you can see after I've pressed L quite a few times, this quiet background audio now does indeed have some peaks that I can use to locate a particular cue in my audio. Again, I'm holding Ctrl+Alt or Cmd+Opt and I'm pressing K or L to change the size of the waveforms as they are displayed.

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