Audition a clip

Check a clip’s sound, or a microphone, on your own headset while the program carries on. See Listening privately.

Before you start

• Connect your headset to this Mac.
• Have the clip or audio input in the show.

Step 1: Connect Audition to your headset

Open Window › Audio Routing (⌥⌘A). Drag from the Audition bus’s port to your headset’s card, or tick the headset under Outputs in the bus’s … menu. You do this once per show.

Step 2: Select the clip

Select the clip in the sidebar, or select a shot and the element that shows it. The inspector shows a private player under Playback (for the source) or Clip (for a shot’s element). The note under it should say it plays privately on the Audition bus.

Step 3: Play it

Play, pause, skip back and forward, or scrub. For a shot’s element, the player starts at that shot’s in-point.

Step 4: Or listen to a live input

For a microphone or a test tone, select the source and turn on Listen Privately in the inspector. Turn it off when you are done.

Verify

• You hear the clip or input in your headset.
• The program monitor and the Program bus’s meters do not change.
• In Audio Routing, the source’s card says Listening privately for a live input.

Related

• Listening privately
• Media clips
• Send a bus to an output