Display Preferences - Adobe AUDITION 3 User Manual

Lists color scheme presets that come with the program as well as those you've created yourself. To
Color Presets
choose one, select it from the pop-up menu.
Saves the currently selected color scheme as a preset.
Save As
Deletes the currently selected color scheme preset.
Delete
Displays the currently selected color scheme preset or customized color scheme.
Example
Opens the Color Picker, in which you can select a new color for the element selected under Waveform.
Change Color
(The current color is shown in the color swatch to the left of the Change Color button.)
Lets you adjust the appearance of a selected range. Preview your changes in the Example area.
Selection
• Completely reverses the color of selected ranges relative to unselected audio. Deselect this option if you
Invert
want to set transparency for selected ranges instead of reversing the colors.
• Drag the slider or enter a value to adjust the transparent value (in percentage) of a selection; 0 is no
Transparency
transparency, and 100 is maximum transparency. (This option is not available when Invert is selected.)
Drag the slider, click the arrows at either end of the brightness scale, or type in a percentage to change
UI Brightness
the overall brightness of the work area.
Colors all panels and dialog boxes with a tint you specify.
Tint
Returns UI Brightness and Tint to the default settings.
Reset UI

Display preferences

In the Preferences dialog box, click the Display tab to adjust the Spectral and Waveform Display modes:
Determines which method Adobe Audition uses to segment the spectral data before
Windowing Function
displaying it. The segments (windows) are listed in order from the narrowest frequency band/most noise to the
widest frequency band/least noise. Blackmann or Blackmann-Harris are usually good choices.
Specifies the number of vertical bands used in drawing frequencies. The larger this number, the longer
Resolution
it takes for Adobe Audition to render the spectral display. Performance varies according to the speed of your
computer.
Specifies the window width (FFT frame size) used to plot spectral data, where 100% is a full frame.
Window Width
The default setting is 75%. If you want to increase time resolution and determine exactly where frequencies start,
decrease the window width (50% to 75% works best). This makes the display more accurate along the timeline (left
and right), but less accurate along the frequency scale (up and down).
Adjusts the visible amplitude range for Spectral Frequency Display.
Decibel Range
Determines the default length of audio that the Top/Tail Views option displays.
Initial Viewing Range
Link Top/Tail Zoom Levels
Show Marker And Range Lines
listed in the Marker List appear in the waveform as vertical dotted lines overlaying the audio, connecting the arrows
from the top to the bottom of the display.
Displays grid lines in the waveform display. The grid lines mark off time on the horizontal x-axis
Show Grid Lines
and amplitude on the vertical y-axis.
Displays center lines in the waveform display. The center lines represent zero amplitude of the
Show Center Lines
waveform's right and left channels.
Automatically matches zoom levels in each view.
Displays marker and range lines in the waveform display. Marker and range entries
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