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Stan, just to be clear, I use Adobe Audition for audio editing. This is what used to be the free Cool Edit, then Cool Edit Pro of fifteen ago. It has superb noise reduction features (the only thing reputedly better is by Izotope). As far as cut and paste, all editors are pretty much the same, as long as you zoom into the waveform far enough and cut only at the zero crossings. Your editor should have a function to find them.




I will guardedly disagree here. I thought the same thing until I started using Tracktion. The built-in non-destructive audio editing features from the version 5+ years ago still have yet to be copied or are just now showing up in some of the big shot programs.

Case and point: Edit down a 1 hour speech to 20 minutes without losing the context and content, but remove pregnant pauses, repetitive statements, etc.

In an hour, I probably had 50 or 60 cuts to the content. To zoom in on zero crossings simply was going to take WAY too much time.

In Tracktion, with a single 'track', when you cut the track into more than one pieces, these become 'clips'. Pregnant pauses - zap that clip. Coughs, editing for content, zap those clips as well. If you hang the beginning of a following 'clip' onto the end of the previous clip, an automatic option comes up in the lower screen context "Auto-cross-fade". That single feature alone saved me hours of editing time - literally. Interestingly enough, none of the cross-fading is destructive. They are simply a flavor of a volume envelope change. If you want to do the fading manually; every clip has a discreet little graphic fade envelope on the beginning and end of the clip. Grab the little icon, drag for how long you want the fade to apply, pick what fade type you want and voila. Totally non-destructive and takes zero time to 'apply'.

In nearly every other audio 'editor' program I've used, gain changes like this are usually destructive; requiring one to keep copies of backups at each revision, taking up disc space, etc.

Just one example.

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