If you have worked with other Adobe video/audio apps like Premiere, After Effects or Audition, you will feel very comfortable with the new Soundbooth interface - it has the same gray theme with a panel based layout. [see screenshot]
The USP of Soundbooth is that you can accomplish the three most common audio clean-up tasks with the click of a button - i.e., remove the background noises, rumbling sounds or the clicks & pops. Advanced users may try the Lasso tool to selectively remove audio that matches certain frequencies by making marquee selections around the waveforms.
Also present are the standard audio enhancing features like Fades, Normalize and Trimming. With Adobe Soundbooth, you can extract audio from video clips [like avi, wmv], enhance their sound quality inside Soundbooth and later export them to a variety of audio formats.Unfortunately, the first public beta version available at the Adobe Labs is buggy and did crash a couple of times on our Windows XP SP2 machine. There's no support for common audio/video formats like MP3, FLV or H.264 though Adobe says that support will be available in the future releases.
Adobe is targeting non-techies and casual users who do not feel comfortable inside sophisticated applications like Cool Edit or Adobe Audion.
Overall, it's will be an interesting application to watch in the coming months when they fix the initial bugs and add support for more codecs. While Audacity is still the audio software of choice for most newbie podcasters, Soundbooth could be a good alternative though the retail version may not be available for free.
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Reader Comments
Worst installer.
Crapped out in Win XP MCE 2005
-Pari
Written on 27/10/06 8:30 AM
ITS FREE!! Thats very unlike Adobe who love selling their products at a price.(other than the flash player obviously!)
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Written on 27/10/06 4:10 PM
One of the more easy audio editing software that I have come across is GoldWave (it supports MP3s). Was using Sound Forge earlier. Have to give Soundbooth a try. If the interface is similar to Premiere then it shouldn't be too difficult.
Written on 27/10/06 5:02 PM
soundbooth is going to be a Pro software...
ayyush kumar ji..its not free..u will have to pay couple of hunders dollers..now its in alpha!!
Written on 5/11/06 10:39 PM