Soundbooth features
Use intuitive, task-based tools
Take command of the audio in your film and video projects, as well as rich media projects created with Adobe® Flash® Professional. Task-based tools help you clean up recordings, polish voice-overs, customize music and sound effects, and do much more. High-quality production becomes more efficient with Adobe Soundbooth® CS5, without sacrificing creative control.
Multitrack support enhanced
Work on more than one mono or stereo file at a time. Mix multiple audio tracks and scores — numerous enhancements make it easy to work on larger multitrack projects with more precise control.
Fast audio cleanup
Use powerful, sample-accurate tools to cut, copy, paste, fade, and stretch audio assets. Intuitive on-clip tools make common edits instant, and visual feedback keeps you informed at every step.
Looping tools
Create loops more easily with automatic beat detection. You can adjust the in and out points by individual beats and adjust the minimum and maximum frequency, as well as the beat detection sensitivity.
Intuitive on-clip controls
Take advantage of intuitive on-clip tools that make common fades, trims, and volume edits instant. Visual feedback keeps you informed at every step.
Elimination of clicks and pops
Remove unwanted clicks and pops due to equipment problems and old media.
Volume correction
Quickly match the volume levels within a single audio clip, or match the volume levels for multiple audio files with just a few clicks.
MP3 Compression Preview
Preview the sound quality of different MP3 compression settings, and view the new file size before committing to specific compression settings to achieve the results you want.
Visual workflows for frequency space editing
Quickly spot phase problems and background noises, and then conveniently fix them with standard graphics editing tools.
One-click edits
Perform edits for common tasks, including volume normalization, fades, and overall file volume adjustment, with a single click.
Automatic removal of low rumble
Remove rumble to bring clarity to the remaining audio.
Automatic one-click mastering of mixed audio
Apply a professionally assembled combination of processes tuned to enhance entire audio mixes.
Automatic one-click optimization of voice-over tracks
Apply a professionally assembled combination of processes tuned to enhance vocal tracks with a single click.
Work with ready-to-use audio assets
Kick-start your soundtracks with the enhanced Soundbooth Score editing workflow. Download Soundbooth Scores from Resource Central, and use the new Multitrack project view to customize, combine, or layer multiple scores. Adjust intensity to suit the mood, and alter duration to fit. Add sound effects by choosing from thousands via Resource Central.
Additional Soundbooth scores enhanced
Jump-start your audio projects with royalty-free content, including thousands of sound effects and more than 130 Soundbooth Scores. (Internet connection required.)
Thousands of sound effects available via Resource Central enhanced
Create or customize existing audio for your scene or interactive project created with Flash Professional using more than 10,000 sound effects available for download via Resource Central (Internet connection required).
Improved Soundbooth Score workflow enhanced
Easily locate and preview Soundbooth Scores available through Resource Central, drop them directly into a multitrack mix, and customize them easily. Adjust intensity to suit the visual mood, and change length to fit. Combine, mix, or match multiple scores on a single track, or layer different scores on multiple tracks.
Enjoy tighter integration
Work in Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, or Flash Professional and edit audio in Soundbooth, thanks to new nondestructive roundtrip editing features that help ensure whatever changes you make in one application automatically update in the others. Drive animation or create captions by laying down markers in Soundbooth and exporting them as XML or in FLV. The Adobe Sound Document (ASND) file format packages audio tracks into an ASND file that can be easily shared with other software components.
ASND file format
Take advantage of the new ASND format, which packages multiple tracks into an ASND file that can be shared easily with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Flash Professional CS5, or After Effects CS5 without modifying the original audio files. By taking snapshots of your project as you work, you can easily return to any previous state to enjoy the power of nondestructive multitrack editing.
Speech Search
Take advantage of powerful speech recognition technology to quickly search the audio in your files and find assets or clips within Soundbooth.
Adobe Creative Suite integration
Jump directly into Soundbooth from within other Adobe Creative Suite® components to create, clean up, or enhance your audio. The nondestructive ASND file format shares audio files easily with Flash Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro, or After Effects, and the ability to export cue markers as FLV or XML files makes coordinating sound to your project easier than ever.
Rapidly enhance and edit audio
Quickly and easily heal sound; remove pops, clicks, and other unwanted noises; and match volume levels. Create sound effects or add reverb to better match on-location room ambience using a library of high-quality audio filters. Add clarity and punch to dialogue tracks with streamlined mastering tools.
High-quality audio effects
Enjoy a library of audio filters to help you achieve your own sound, including reverb, echo, EQ, time and pitch stretch, distortion, chorus, and more. Combine several effects to individualize your sound using the Effects Rack.
Fast mastering and vocal improvement
Add clarity and punch to dialogue tracks with streamlined mastering tools.
Dockable windows for customizable workspaces
Accelerate your workflow with customized window placement and layout based on the familiar Adobe user interface.
Effects Rack
Add up to five filters at a time with options for previewing filters in real time in the Effects Rack.
Effects Rack presets
Choose and save custom effects settings. Get a quick start with professionally selected effects combinations. Save time by saving a whole rack of effects to use later.
High-quality Radius engine from iZotope
Stretch time and shift pitch using the high-quality Radius engine from iZotope.
Recording new audio assets
Create new assets such as voice-overs from scratch by recording new mono or stereo audio files with markers and optional time stamps.
Cue support for Adobe Flash
Insert markers while playing, recording, or editing audio in Soundbooth, and drive animation created with Flash Professional.
Exporting markers to XML for use in Flash
Export the markers with all relevant data to an XML file that can be used in Flash Professional. XML can be imported natively into any open audio file or edited in XML tools.
Mix Paste
Create new assets by combining two existing assets with the Mix Paste feature.
Support for Core Audio in Mac OS
Enjoy the flexibility to work with your preferred audio hardware and platform thanks to support for Core Audio sound devices in Mac OS.
Fast zooming controls
Navigate and work faster by zooming waveform displays to the sample level.
XMP metadata
Add XMP metadata to files to identify and sort important information, including sample rates, bitrates, ownership rights and permissions, and more.
Undo History panel
Quickly undo or redo operations using the Undo History panel.
Fast cut, copy, and paste editing
Use powerful sample-accurate tools to cut, copy, paste, fade, and stretch audio assets.
Easy audio cleanup
Remove unwanted noises such as background hums, air conditioners, hisses, and so on from your audio tracks.
Customized workspaces for specific tasks or users
Optimize your workspace by arranging menus and layout based on specific tasks, and then save the configuration for instant recall.
Support for leading audio formats
Save your files to common audio formats such as WAV, MP3, AIFF, WMA, and AAC.
Editing audio in video files
Open video files — such as MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, and WMV — and edit and clean up their audio.
Exporting with Adobe Media Encoder
Export to a large number of audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, WMV, and FLV, with Adobe Media Encoder.
Spectral frequency display
Get more insight into audio file contents with frequency displayed next to waveform.
Tasks panel
Use a convenient panel to manage and organize audio editing workflows.
Audio characteristics
Use the library of audio filters to modify audio characteristics such as EQ, reverb, echo, flange, chorus, distortion, and time and pitch manipulation.
Save Selection
Save the important portions of a file directly to disk.
Insert Silence
Add sections of silence to an audio track or file to create pacing or to provide time for echoes and so on.
File conversion options
Convert file sample rates and bit depths, and switch between mono and stereo files.
Time format options
Work in the time format that makes sense for your project by displaying time in samples, minutes and seconds, or frames.
Support for ASIO and DirectX
Enjoy the flexibility to work with your preferred audio hardware and platform. Soundbooth includes support for both ASIO and Microsoft DirectX sound card hardware drivers in Windows®.
