Soundbooth CS5 from Adobe is software that makes it easy to create and edit audio for all of your productions. Task-based features and tight integration with other Adobe applications let you edit sound, and accomplish audio tasks with complete creative control. The intuitive tools allow you to quickly enhance and edit audio - heal sound visually or remove pops, clicks, and hums, and quickly adjust volume levels.
In addition to containing extensive editing capability, the software also ships with over 10,000 sound effects, plus over 130 customizable Soundbooth Scores. Drag and drop, combine and layer sound effects or scores to customize your multi-track projects. Use Soundbooth to create or enhance audio for your video productions, and package multi-track audio projects into a single file that you can easily share with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Flash Professional.
- Work on more than one mono or stereo file at a time
- Mix multiple audio tracks and scores - numerous enhancements make it easy to work on larger multi-track projects with more precise control
Fast Audio Cleanup
- Use powerful, sample-accurate tools to cut, copy, paste, fade, and stretch audio assets Intuitive on-clip tools make common edits instant, and visual feedback keeps you informed at every step
Looping Tools
- Create loops more easily with automatic beat detection
- You can adjust the in and out points by individual beats and adjust the minimum and maximum frequency, as well as the beat detection sensitivity
Intuitive On-Clip Controls
- Take advantage of intuitive on-clip tools that make common fades, trims, and volume edits instant
- Visual feedback keeps you informed at every step
Elimination of Clicks and Pops
- Remove unwanted clicks and pops due to equipment problems and old media
Volume Correction
- Quickly match the volume levels within a single audio clip, or match the volume levels for multiple audio files with just a few clicks
MP3 Compression Preview
- Preview the sound quality of different MP3 compression settings, and view the new file size before committing to specific compression settings to achieve the results you want
Visual Workflows for Frequency Space Editing
- Quickly spot phase problems and background noises, and then conveniently fix them with standard graphics editing tools
One-Click Edits
- Perform edits for common tasks, including volume normalization, fades, and overall file volume adjustment, with a single click
Automatic Removal of Low Rumble
- Remove rumble to bring clarity to the remaining audio
Automatic One-Click Mastering of Mixed Audio
- Apply a professionally assembled combination of processes tuned to enhance entire audio mixes
Automatic One-Click Optimization of Voice-Over Tracks
- Apply a professionally assembled combination of processes tuned to enhance vocal tracks with a single click
- Download Soundbooth Scores from Resource Central, and use the new multi-track project view to customize, combine, or layer multiple scores.
- Adjust intensity to suit the mood, and alter duration to fit
- Add sound effects by choosing from thousands via Resource Central
Additional Soundbooth Scores
- Jump-start your audio projects with royalty-free content, including thousands of sound effects and more than 130 Soundbooth Scores (Internet connection required)
Thousands of Sound Effects
- Create or customize existing audio for your scene or interactive project created with Flash Professional using more than 10,000 sound effects available for download via Resource Central (Internet connection required)
Improved Soundbooth Score Workflow
- Easily locate and preview Soundbooth Scores available through Resource Central, drop them directly into a multi-track mix, and customize them easily.
- Adjust intensity to suit the visual mood, and change length to fit
- Combine, mix, or match multiple scores on a single track, or layer different scores on multiple tracks
- Work in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Flash Professional and edit audio in Soundbooth thanks to new nondestructive roundtrip editing features that help ensure whatever changes you make in one application, automatically update in the others
- Drive animation or create captions by laying down markers in Soundbooth and exporting them as XML or in FLV
ASND File Format
- Take advantage of the new Adobe Sound Document (ASND) format, which packages multiple tracks into an ASND file that can be shared easily with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Flash Professional CS5, or After Effects CS5 without modifying the original audio files
- By taking snapshots of your project as you work, you can easily return to any previous state to enjoy the power of nondestructive multi-track editing
Speech Search
- Take advantage of powerful speech recognition technology to quickly search the audio in your files and find assets or clips within Soundbooth
Adobe Creative Suite integration
- Jump directly into Soundbooth from within other Adobe Creative Suite components to create, clean up, or enhance your audio
- The nondestructive ASND file format shares audio files easily with Flash Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro, or After Effects, and the ability to export cue markers as FLV or XML files makes coordinating sound to your project easier than ever
- Quickly and easily heal sound
- Remove pops, clicks, and other unwanted noises and match volume levels
- Create sound effects or add reverb to better match on-location room ambience using a library of high-quality audio filters
- Add clarity and punch to dialogue tracks with streamlined mastering tools
High-Quality Audio Effects
- Enjoy a library of audio filters to help you achieve your own sound, including reverb, echo, EQ, time and pitch stretch, distortion, chorus, and more.
- Combine several effects to individualize your sound using the Effects Rack
Fast Mastering and Vocal Improvement
- Add clarity and punch to dialogue tracks with streamlined mastering tools
Dockable Windows for Customizable Workspaces
- Accelerate your workflow with customized window placement and layout based on the familiar Adobe user interface
Effects Rack
- Add up to five filters at a time with options for previewing filters in real time in the Effects Rack
Effects Rack Presets
- Choose and save custom effects settings Get a quick start with professionally selected effects combinations Save time by saving a whole rack of effects to use later
High-Quality Radius Engine from iZotope
- Stretch time and shift pitch using the high-quality Radius engine from iZotope
Recording New Audio Assets
- Create new assets such as voice-overs from scratch by recording new mono or stereo audio files with markers and optional time stamps
Cue Support for Adobe Flash
- Insert markers while playing, recording, or editing audio in Soundbooth, and drive animation created with Flash Professional
Exporting Markers to XML for Use in Flash
- Export the markers with all relevant data to an XML file that can be used in Flash Professional. XML can be imported natively into any open audio file or edited in XML tools
Mix Paste
- Create new assets by combining two existing assets with the Mix Paste feature
- Enjoy the flexibility to work with your preferred audio hardware and platform
- Includes support for both ASIO and Microsoft DirectX sound card hardware drivers in Windows
Fast Zooming Controls
- Navigate and work faster by zooming waveform displays to the sample level
XMP metadata
- Add XMP metadata to files to identify and sort important information, including sample rates, bitrates, ownership rights and permissions, and more
Undo History Panel
- Quickly undo or redo operations using the Undo History panel
Fast Cut, Copy and Paste Editing
- Use powerful sample-accurate tools to cut, copy, paste, fade, and stretch audio assets
Easy Audio Cleanup
- Remove unwanted noises such as background hums, air conditioners, hisses, and so on from your audio tracks
Customized Workspaces for Specific Tasks or Users
- Optimize your workspace by arranging menus and layout based on specific tasks, and then save the configuration for instant recall
Support for Leading Audio Formats
- Save your files to common audio formats such as WAV, MP3, AIFF, WMA and AAC
Editing Audio in Video Files
- Open video files such as MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, WMV and edit and clean up their audio
Exporting with Adobe Media Encoder
- Export to a large number of audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, WMV and FLV with Adobe Media Encoder
Spectral Frequency Display
- Get more insight into audio file contents with frequency displayed next to waveform
Tasks Panel
- Use a convenient panel to manage and organize audio editing workflows
Audio Characteristics
- Use the library of audio filters to modify audio characteristics such as EQ, reverb, echo, flange, chorus, distortion, and time and pitch manipulation
Save Selection
- Save the important portions of a file directly to disk
Insert Silence
- Add sections of silence to an audio track or file to create pacing, or to provide time for echoes, and so on
File Conversion Options
- Convert file sample rates and bit depths, and switch between mono and stereo files
Time Format Options
- Work in the time format that makes sense for your project by displaying time in samples, minutes and seconds, or frames