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Hi, this is Justin. You’re watching winksound.com. In this video I’m going to show you how to use the strip silence function in Pro Tools 8. Now this function is great because you can get rid of any harm or heist that you have on your tracks and clean it up real nice. Check it out.
To get to the strip silence window you go to edit, strip silence or command U and that brings it up. Now this strip threshold determines how quiet a part of audio has to be before it will be considered silent. The minimum strip duration controls, the shortest amount of silence that is considered to be worth removing. The region start and end pad gives you the option to put space at the start and finish of your regions so you don’t clip any beginnings or decays of your audio.
So if you have delay or revved up tails you don’t want to cut those off prematurely because then it’s going to sound unnatural. And you also have a rename button where you could rename your regions whatever you like and you know get to our font strip silence. So, I have the strip silence window open and what you need to do when you open it and you need to highlight your audio that you want to strip the silence off and so these brackets are around my whole audio file but I don’t want that. I want to section it of to take out that dead space. Well, in this guitar this is harmed and I want to cut that out. I’ll play it right now.
You could see there’s a little bit of harm and I want to strip the silence of that too so there's no harm and it sounds like cleaner. So I’m going to adjust the minimum strip duration and there we go and it separated each audio file, each little audio segment. And I’m going to use the start pad to either increase or decrease the start and the end pads same thing. And all you have to do is hit strip. And there you go and it strips the silence. You could also use extract but extract will take away your audio regions and leave you with the silence and kind of separates your audio and your silence so you’ll see what you’re working with.
So now I’m going to strip this silence and play for you. And took away that home and maybe if I want to adjust it a little bit and I’ll just out a little fade so it sounds a little bit more natural but that’s all you need to do.
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