Introduction to Audio and Audio Editing

Week 4 Lesson Plan:

This lesson, we will start by going through Audition's applications in the industry and showing you some related inspirational links.

Skills:
We'll introduce audio concepts such as amplitude, dB, frequency, wave lengths, reverb, artifacts, distortion and formats, etc.

Concepts:
We'll introduce the Tool Bars and all Tools, Menus, Timelines, Video Dock, Filters, and other Audition interface features and explain their functions.

Concepts:
We'll introduce the use of enveloping to control amplitude and panning throughout the timeline.

Then we will demonstrate 5 of the often-used Audition shortcuts.

Finally we'll introduce the 5.1 sound editor and show how to control audio around a THX 5.1 Surround Sound system.

Exercise:
We'll go through the Audition tutorial together.

Wrap-up
We'll remind you of the resources available and briefly go through the ones posted. As well, there will be time for students to ask questions and play around in the software.