For instance, we had to squint to see the tiny icons for navigating waveforms and enhancing volume. Plus, Soundbooth offers thousands of royalty-free scores, not just loops, to play with, which should expand as Adobe offers users a software development kit.Īlthough Soundbooth is less intimidating than audio editors such as Audition or Ableton Live, it could be more intuitive. You can produce multichannel, 5.1 surround-sound audio. The Pitch & Timing dialog shows time stretch and shift sliders. Helpful tools include Remove a Sound, Auto Compose Score, and Create Loop. The Play Selected Frequencies Only box allows you to zero in on a problem area. Nondestructive effects allow you to restore an original file, should you slip up.ĭragging controls let you easily fade sound in and out, enhancing the volume by 3 decibels with one click. Auto healing considers what's before and after the selection when cleaning up pops and clicks, but it could be smarter. We like that removing an unwanted noise is as easy as using the eraser, marquee or lasso tools in Photoshop. For instance, you can see hisses, pops, and cell phone rings easily in Soundbooth's colorful Spectral Frequency display, similar to Apple Soundtrack Pro's Frequency Spectrum View. Rather than including the more complex Audition in CS3, Adobe designed the Soundbooth audio editor to appeal to visual thinkers.

Premiere's color-correction may be a cinch to use, but they're not as deep as those offered within Apple Final Cut Studio 2. Adobe's Dynamic Link technology enables video editors to move content throughout Premiere, AfterEffects, and Encore while maintaining editing access. You can also export Photoshop layers to Flash or Flash Video, and export its video layers to After Effects and Premiere Pro. Flash provides native support for Photoshop files Illustrator files get the same treatment in Flash. In the process, the programs will keep layers, color settings, and styles intact. Shared CS3 file formats and dragging and dropping allow you to move content briskly between the applications. And if you already know your way around, creative tools, such as Puppet animation in After Effects, are easy to tinker with. That said, we found the interface changes an improvement, while Bridge can smooth the workflow. But unfortunately, as with the rest of CS3, the many tabbed and drop-down menus with tiny labels prevent newbies from diving in without first investing hours with manuals and tutorials. There are plenty of panels to drag and dock on the screen. The Production Premium bundle offers shared keyboard shortcuts, enhanced tweaks to workflows, and streamlined management of palettes. Once the programs are open, interfaces have changed somewhat, as former Macromedia properties resemble Adobe's style.

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