From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1

Displaying and adjusting waveforms - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1

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Displaying and adjusting waveforms

- [Instructor] Another important way for you to review the contents of a sequence is to view the wave forms for your audio. To access these, I'm going to click on this little triangle, just to the right of the time code display, and 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 wave form buttons. I'm going to click to turn on the wave form 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 wave form display you can see it appears on this clip on that track. I can enable it for the audio one track too. 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 wave forms. This has no impact whatsoever on the sound. It's just for you to monitor that particular shape as displayed in the timeline window. And the keyboard shortcut is control and alt on Windows or command and option 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 control and alt or command and option and I'm pressing K or L to change the size of the wave forms as they're displayed.

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