Turn off audio while fast forwarding (i.e., I don't want to hear the chipmunks..)

[BrandonT]

Hey. I'm a long time user of FCP7 and earlier versions. Just moved to Premiere Pro CS6 and I'm enjoying it. One of the few things that bugs me is audio while playing faster than real time (as in J, K, L). I like to play through a clip really fast to make sure that there was no intended cut (as in, my hand in front of the lens for a few seconds) and it's faster to just press L a few times to fast forward through it, rather than scrub through with the mouse. So if you haven't used FCP7 before, it handled this by playing a small blip of the audio as it went. So you weren't hearing all of the audio content, but it was at normal pitch. With Premiere, you're hearing all of the audio content, but at a fast pitch-- the faster you fast forward, the higher the pitch. That's the only way to accomplish playing all of the audio content. I find this incredibly annoying. It's like Alvin and the Chipmunks. And anyone around you who doesn't work with video is going to laugh and distract you asking why it sounds like that, etc.....

It's probably too much to hope for a preference to switch to the FCP way of doing it, but is there a way to just turn it off? So that there's just no audio playing when playing faster than real time? Or any other solution, other than muting each time?? Unchecking audio scrubbing in the preferences doesn't do it. That only applies to mouse scrubbing.

Thank you!

 

[Alex H.]

I'm a fan of having a monitor management interface in the edit suite. The Mackie Big Knob (pause for giggles) and the Presonus Monitor Station are both good options. You can rout multiple sources to multiple speaker pairs, and muting is simply a button push.

Probably not the solution you're looking for, but it's one that many people don't know about.

 

[dustylense]

mute button? It's free.

 

[BrandonT]

Those are add-on peripherals? Thanks for the solution, but you're right, that won't work for me. I can just hit mute on the keyboard just as easily (I don't have a very complex editing setup). I still need audio in this particular job that I rely on fast forwarding to do precise in and out points. So it's not like just routing the source window to a muted output will work for me. But I just wasn't sure if maybe there was an easy setting that I was overlooking since I have mostly just dived right into Premiere from FCP7. I'll try sending in a feature request on whatever Adobe uses for the sort of thing. I'm guessing the Adobe forums. Thanks Alex!

mute button? It's free.

AH! By Scott, now there's something I didn't think about!! I figure those of you who have been using the CS for a while are used to it and are going to have that sentiment over what I'm asking. But I'm guessing there's also more than a few former FCP users who are annoyed by it, as well.

 

[Shooter]

Seems to me that you have a few choices that will "mute" the audio while you fly thru checking for video "glitches".

Also appears that none of these ways suit you because you want to use J-K-L exclusively.

Now if it did work asyou want it and as it did in FCP..there would be others complaining that they want to hear the audio while they are previewing and cant.

Solution would be an Option or Toggle.

That of course means a programmed shortcut key or a menu option.

Suggestion: How about the setting up the Default "Toggle all Source Audio OFF"... with a keyboard shortcut?

IMHO: Seems that if one has to hit any button...may as well be a Mute Key, Volume Knob or use the Mouse with the option provided.

 

[BrandonT]

Yeah, that thought had crossed my mind that if it was swapped to the way it was in FCP, then long-time Premiere users would be upset. I can see where each way has its benefits. And I agree, the mute button sounds like the easiest way. So I think I'll just learn to live with it and not mute it. Maybe I'll even come to see its benefit at some point. At 2x speed, it's really quite useful, but the fastest speed, not so much. Thank you, Shooter!