Operation Manual

ADOBE AUDITION 3.0
User Guide
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3 (Optional) To preview the contents of a selected audio file, click Play to listen to the file once, select Loop to repeat
the file until you click Stop, or select Auto Play to play files automatically when you select them.
4 Click Open.
See also
“About audio file formats” on page 244
“About video file formats” on page 252
Append one or more audio files to another
1 In Edit View, open the audio file that you want to add on to.
2 Choose File > Open Append.
3 IntheOpenAppenddialogbox,selectoneormorefiles.(Toselectmultiple,adjacentfiles,clickthefirstfileand
then Shift-click the last. To select multiple, nonadjacent files, Ctrl-click them.)
Note: If the selected audio files have a different sample rate, resolution, or channel type than the open audio file, Adobe
Auditionconvertstheselectedfilestomatchtheopenfile.Forthebestresults,appendfileswiththesamesampletypeas
the original audio file.
4 Click Append.
Import a bitmap image as audio
In Edit View, you can import bitmap image (BMP) files created by any application. For the most predictable sonic
results, import images of spectral graphs you saved from Adobe Audition and modified in an image-editing appli-
cation. For sonic experimentation, import photographs, logos, and other visually-oriented files.
Whenimportingasavedspectralgraph,makesuretherelatedphasefileisinthesamefolder.Formoreinformation
about saving spectral graphs, see “Spectral Bitmap Image (.bmp)” on page 250.
Bitmap image imported into spectral frequency selection
1 (Optional) Open an audio file you want to incorporate an image into. Then, in Spectral Frequency Display ,
select a time or frequency range.
2 Choose File > Import Bitmap.