Alan Craven wrote:

 

It is one of those features which seems worse in CS6 than it was in CS3 and earlier.  I expect we shall be told that it is yet another of those many consequences of the move to offering  Audition to MAC users, and that as such we shall have to put up with it for now.

I haven't made the direct comparison myself, but I've heard elsewhere that people prefer the Audition 3 version of this too. But I don't think that this is a consequence of making it dual platform - it's just that the algorithm for healing has been altered. My guess is that the new one will work better with some glitches - but unfortunately the old one works better with more!

As far as the OP's original problem is concerned, then I'm afraid that no, there isn't. Zooming in an locating them by eye is the only way to do it, otherwise the software algorithm would have presumably found them anyway...

I don't know what the current status of investigating this is, as far as the developers are concerned, but I'm pretty sure it's been bought to their attention.

SteveG,

It is the zooming that irritated me - I never use the Automatic Click Reduction, preferrring to do this manually. 

ryclark has provided me with the answer to that, for which I thank him very much!

Now why could I not discover ryclark's solution for myself?  For my money the answer is the lack of a proper printed manual - I am too old and set in my ways for the new fangled Help, which takes you to a web page.  Search is fine, but the quality of the answers you get is too heavily dependent on the quality of the question that you pose.  Also the files tell you what the software can do, rather than how to do what you want.  I suppose I should invest in some training.

I have printed out the pdf version, but it is neither paginated nor indexed.  There is not even a contents list, so you are reduced to turning pages and hoping to spot something useful.  Also it is setup for printing on American paper sizes; so with A4 the whole thing is littered with widows and orphans. Uggghhh!!!

Rant over!

Thanks, Durin.

I was OK on zooming the time ruler.  it was the cumbersome zoom of the frequency in spectral view that was bugging me.  all I could find was to R click in the scale and select zoom in, and again,and.........  Thanks to ryclark, now I just twiddle my mouse wheel.  Fantastic!

My field is wildlife video, so I have no control over the weird and wonderful extra sounds that I acquire!  I make a lot of use of the Noise reduction, and click removal tool.  For use in Scotland, I need a low-flying F16 removal tool!!! 

I have evolved a technique of highlighting the offending noise in spectral view and using this for a noise profile. I then click on Select Entire File and apply the effect.  I find this is far more effective than the blanket reduction achieved using the waveform - more of the audio that I want survives, and I get less of the "tinnies".  I have to zoom in on frequency a great deal to isolate some unwanted noise.

I have never found the click removal effect very effective (sorry!), and used the Click Removal Tool enthusiastically from the start.  One disconcerting feature is that its diameter does not change when you zoom the timeline.  No problem once I got used to it, but I found it odd at first.  I also find that it is too "heavy" - it removes too much and it is easy to end up with silence rather than background.

Silence is another one - why change from "Mute" in the R click menu?  I still have not got used to it, my autopilot expects to home in on Mute.

Thanks again, for your response to my rant!

BRONTESLC,

I think we are at cross purposes a little, here. 

My method of applying noise reduction will not work for short duration spikes as there is a minimum time needed for a noise sample.  I use it for narrow frequency band noise which may be continuous or short term, but always a second or more long.  You can, of course apply the noise reduction to just the affected part of the file by applying the effect with the affected section highlighted by drawing a marquee around it.  An example of the use of this technique would be the removal of the intermittent beep - beep warning of a reversing truck.

Your point 6 - the opacity slider - would be a great addition to the spot healing brush.

It exists in a different form in the Noise and hiss reduction effects already, but I find it difficult to use with any success in the hiss reduction effect.

Durin,  thanks for the tip about favourites.  I had not appreciated that they offered so much power.  I shall investigate this as I often wish to apply the same effects to a range of clips.