The Waveform Viewer displays the waveform of the audio
file[8] (*.wav
). Above the waveform,
timecode information is displayed. This timecode information can be
hidden by right clicking in the Waveform Viewer and clicking on
in the context menu.
In the same manner it can be made visible again.
While listening to the sound, a red vertical bar, the crosshair, moves through the waveform and indicates which part of the waveform corresponds to the current point in time. Furthermore, whenever you have selected a time interval, the corresponding part of the waveform will be highlighted in light blue color.
At any time, you can press ALT and drag the
time axis for a panning effect (i.e. go to the left to go back in
the time or to the right to go further). In the case of video files,
the waveform is only displayed if there exists an additional
*.wav
file (see Section 4.1). If this is not the case, the
Waveform Viewer will not be available.
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The Waveform Viewer supports 3 modes. You can select the active mode by a right click on the Waveform Viewer. In the menu
, the following options are available:Separate. 2 Waveforms are showed, one for each channel.
Merged. The 2 channels are merged and the result, one waveform is displayed.
Blended. Both channels are displayed on 1 waveform, differences are designated with colors.
Another option in the context-menu (right click) of the Waveform Viewer is connected. If this option is checked, the timescale of the Waveform Viewer and the Timeline Viewer are connected:
[8] Different resolutions are supported: 8 bits (mono and stereo), 16 bits (mono and stereo) and 24 bits (stereo). Both PCM and A-law encoded wave files can be loaded.