Track Laying

Our first workshop into Adobe Audition was all about track laying, putting audio into different channels to build up an atmosphere. It was an interesting exercise as you really saw how you go about building up sounds to create an environment when editing audio to video.

In the exercise we were given sounds to work with, and the first 16 seconds of Toy Story 3 to put the sound to, creating that world, that environment. We went through the basics of layouts of audition and editing tools such as the razor tool, and how to produce fade ins and fade outs. I worked on this mostly in class, and then finished it off at home:

This exercise was really useful, and opened my mind up much more into how you can create an environment purely using sound. Even if the sounds individually may not sound quite right, when they are with other sounds or are integrated with images it is clear to me that they can actually sound pretty good. This should help me when it comes to my project to not dismiss recordings too early if I think they aren't great, as I could get something out of them somehow.