Waveform
A visual representation of an audio track's amplitude over time.
A waveform is a visual graph of an audio track's amplitude over time — taller peaks for louder moments, flat stretches for silence. It's the shape editors read to find a beat, a word, or a pause without repeatedly scrubbing and listening.
On a timeline, a waveform turns audio into something you can edit visually — snapping a cut to a beat, or checking that a ducked music bed actually drops under a line of dialogue.
See also: Audio Ducking, Loudness Normalization (LUFS).
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A waveform is a visual graph of an audio track's amplitude over time — taller peaks mean louder moments, flat sections mean silence.
Waveforms make it possible to align a cut, a beat, or a line of dialogue to an exact moment in the audio just by looking at the shape of the track, without having to scrub and listen repeatedly.