Operation Manual

ADOBE AUDITION 3.0
User Guide
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3 To start playback, click the Play Looped button.
See also
“View the top and tail of an audio file” on page 71
Play selections with preroll and postroll
You can play selected ranges with preroll and postroll (short segments of audio immediately preceding and following
the selection). Playing preroll and postroll lets you hear transitions so that you can fine-tune a selection.
1 In the Transport panel, right-click the standard Play button or the circled Play button , and choose any of
the following:
• Play Preroll And Postroll (Skip Selection)
• Play Preroll And Selection
• Play Postroll
• Play Preroll, Postroll, And Selection
2 To start playback in the selected preroll and postroll mode, click the Play button you customized.
3 (Optional) To deactivate preroll and postroll, right-click the standard or circled Play button, and choose any of
the first four playback options.
See also
“Play audio linearly” on page 60
“Play selections or files in a loop” on page 60
Change preroll and postroll durations
By default, the duration of preroll and postroll is one second, but you can change these settings.
1 In Edit View, choose Options > Preroll And Postroll Options.
2 Under Edit View - Play, enter preroll and postroll durations for selected ranges in the Main panel.
3 Under Effects Preview, enter preroll and postroll durations for previews in effects dialog boxes.
Play audio by scrubbing
The term scrubbing comes from the process of manually rotating the reels of analog audio tape to play back audio.
In Edit View and Multitrack View, you can use the Scrub tool to achieve a similar result. Dragging this tool slowly
plays audio at a slower rate; dragging it quickly increases playback speed up to the regular rate.
In Multitrack View, the Scrub tool scrubs individual tracks. To scrub all tracks, drag the start-time indicator.
1 In the toolbar, select the Scrub tool .
2 In the Main panel, do one of the following:
• In Edit View, drag forwards or backwards over audio. (To scrub only one channel, drag at the top or bottom of the
panel.)
• In Multitrack View, drag forwards or backwards over the track that you want to hear.