- Audition User Guide
- Introduction
- Workspace and setup
- Digital audio fundamentals
- Importing, recording, and playing
- Multichannel audio workflow
- Create, open, or import files in Adobe Audition
- Importing with the Files panel
- Extracting audio from CDs
- Supported import formats
- Navigate time and playing audio in Adobe Audition
- Recording audio
- Monitoring recording and playback levels
- Remove silences from your audio recordings
- Editing audio files
- Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
- Session Markers and Clip Marker for Multitrack
- Generating text-to-speech
- Matching loudness across multiple audio files
- Displaying audio in the Waveform Editor
- Selecting audio
- How to copy, cut, paste, and delete audio in Audition
- Visually fading and changing amplitude
- Working with markers
- Inverting, reversing, and silencing audio
- How to automate common tasks in Audition
- Analyze phase, frequency, and amplitude with Audition
- Frequency Band Splitter
- Undo, redo, and history
- Converting sample types
- Creating podcasts using Audition
- Applying effects
- Enabling CEP extensions
- Effects controls
- Applying effects in the Waveform Editor
- Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor
- Adding third party plugins
- Notch Filter effect
- Fade and Gain Envelope effects (Waveform Editor only)
- Manual Pitch Correction effect (Waveform Editor only)
- Graphic Phase Shifter effect
- Doppler Shifter effect (Waveform Editor only)
- Effects reference
- Apply amplitude and compression effects to audio
- Delay and echo effects
- Diagnostics effects (Waveform Editor only) for Audition
- Filter and equalizer effects
- Modulation effects
- Reduce noise and restore audio
- Reverb effects
- How to use special effects with Audition
- Stereo imagery effects
- Time and pitch manipulation effects
- Generate tones and noise
- Mixing multitrack sessions
- Video and surround sound
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Saving and exporting
Audio import formats
Adobe Audition can open audio files in the following formats:
- AAC (including HE-AAC)
- AIF, AIFF, AIFC (including files with up to 32 channels)
There are many different variations of AIFF format. Audition can open all uncompressed AIFF files and most common compressed versions.
To see Author metadata in AIFF files, view the Dublin Core: Creator field on the XMP tab of the Metadata panel. (See Viewing and editing XMP metadata.)
- AC-3
- APE
- AU
- AVR
- BWF
- CAF (all uncompressed and most compressed versions)
- EC-3
- FLAC
- HTK
- IFF
- M4A
- MAT
- MPC
- MP2
- MP3 (including MP3-surround files)
- OGA, OGG
- PAF
- PCM
- PVF
- RAW
- RF64
- SD2
- SDS
- SF
- SND
- VOC
- VOX
- W64
- WAV (including files with up to 32 channels)
There are many different variations of WAV format. Adobe Audiition can open all uncompressed WAV files and most common compressed versions.
- WMA (Windows only, and enabled with DLMS Format Support in Media & Disk Cache preferences)
- WVE
- XI
Video import formats
The Waveform Editor lets you open the audio portion of video files in the formats below. The Multitrack Editor lets you insert the same file types and provides a preview in the Video panel.
To access these video formats, install QuickTime. To import additional formats, extend QuickTime support. For more information, see this article on the Apple website.
- AVI
- DV
- MOV
- MPEG-1
- MPEG-4
- 3GPP and 3GPP2
The following formats are enabled with DLMS Format Support in Media & Disk Cache preferences. This preference is turned on by default.
- AVI (Windows only)
- FLV
- R3D
- SWF
- WMV