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Removing Silent Sections on page 334
Removing Silent Sections
The Detect Silence dialog allows you to detect and remove silent sections of your audio.
PROCEDURE
1. Select one or multiple audio events with silent sections in the Project window.
2. Select Audio > Advanced > Detect Silence.
3. In the Detect Silence dialog, make your settings.
4. Click Compute to analyze the audio.
The audio is analyzed and the waveform is redrawn to indicate which sections are
considered silent according to your settings. The number of detected regions is displayed.
5. Optional: Click Preview to listen to the result.
The event is played back and the sections are silenced according to your settings.
6. Optional: In the Detection section, readjust the settings until you are satised with the
result.
7. Optional: In the Output section, activate Add as Regions.
8. In the Output section, activate Strip Silence.
9. Click Process.
RESULT
The event is split and the silent sections are removed.
AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK
If you have selected more than one event and did not activate Process all selected Events, the
Detect Silence dialog opens again after processing, allowing you to make separate settings for
the next event.
RELATED LINKS
Detect Silence Dialog on page 331
Spectrum Analyzer Window
The Spectrum Analyzer window displays the audio spectrum of an event, clip, or selection range
as a two-dimensional graph, with frequency range on the x-axis and level distribution on the y-
axis.
To open the Spectrum Analyzer window for a selected audio event, clip, or selection
range, select Audio > Spectrum Analyzer.
Audio Functions
Spectrum Analyzer Window
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