Auto Silence Removal - Merging Pyramix User Manual

Auto Silence Removal

Edit > Automatic Silence Removal Automatic Silence Removal operates by scanning the Selection and then automatically
Note: This function is non-destructive of the Media file - it edits the Clip by breaking it up into
smaller Clips, not by deleting any actual audio from the hard drive.
Threshold [dB]
This field determines the threshold level in dB below which material in the Clip will be removed.
Minimal Silence [ms] / Minimal Sound [ms]
Sets the shortest periods of silence and sound which can be created by removing material that drops below the
threshold. Some audio material (E.g. speech) contains very short gaps. If all of these were removed, the audio
would become too "chopped up". On speech the object of the exercise is usually to break it into areas where
speech is present not remove small gaps between words or sentences. Some audio material may have very short
transient peaks in the midst of a segment that falls below the threshold. If all of these short transients were created
as Clips the end result might well sound worse than the original.
The minimum setting is 10 ms and the maximum is 5000ms (5 seconds).
Fade Out [ms] / Fade In [ms]
Sets the length of the automatic Fade Out and Fade In that will be applied to all new Clips created by the Auto-
matic Silence Removal operation. The range for this setting is between 5 ms and 500ms (1/2 second).
Once the parameters have been set, click OK .
This process takes into account the current Remove Mode to determine whether to leave gaps between the
newly created Clips, or to join or ripple the Clips on the Track together.
Automatic Silence Removal cannot be executed on cross-faded Clips.
editing it into smaller Clips by removing Regions which fall below the threshold level and
meet the 'Minimal Sound' and 'Silence' criteria set in the Automatic Silence Removal
dialog .
Automatic Silence Removal dialog
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