Silence Detection
In TimeBolt's Multi-Track Editor, Silence Detection - the process of creating automatic cuts - has to be run manually by clicking the "Run Silence Detection" button. This ensures that the "right" type of silence detection is being used for the current project.
Silence Detection is split into two broad categories,
- Each Track Independently
- Select Specific Track
The Silence Detection type that needs to be selected with depend on your project.
Note: Please make sure your tracks are synced before running Silence Detection.
For Project With Master Audio File
If you have one audio file that forms the foudation of your whole project, then you should use "Select Specific Track" and then choose the track that master audio file is on to run Silence Detection on it.
TimeBolt will then run Silence Detection on the master audio file and at the same time duplicate these cuts on the rest of the tracks so that they're perfectly aligned.
For Camera Switching Projects
Projects with multiple speakers that have multiple video files with audio (or seperate audio files), where the audio of each speaker is important - you have to run Silence Detection with "Each Track Independently". This will run Silence Detection on each track independent of the other tracks and detect cuts for each speaker.
Think projects like Podcasts, Interviews, Riverside recordings etc. When exported, only the detected cuts in the track are kept - thereby creating a fully cut timeline where each cut is followed by the next available cut on a different track.
For Side-By-Side Camera Projects
Some projects require the speakers to be present in the same cut simultaneously. For example, in an interview where the faces of both interviewer and interviewee need to be in frame. This is similar to camera switching, but needs the detected cuts to be in the same place across tracks.
For this type of project, use the "Duplicate Detection Across Tracks?" checkbox. This will give you independent Silence Detection per track plus creating a union of all available cuts across the tracks. This means when one speaker is talking, the cuts of the other speaker(s) at that exact moment is available in the timeline.