After Dave and I got the movie roughed together and the visual effects created, it was time to put the audio together.  We used Adobe Audition for sound effects and multi-track editing.   There are  three distinct steps to the audio editing.  First is cleaning up the voice tracks recorded on set.  We learned a lot about what not to do and used Audition to correct some of our mistakes.   Second is synchronizing the audio tracks to the video,  we used  twenty-two tracks of audio plus the video track and master track to create the movie.    The final step is balancing the audio mix.   Audition gives you the ability to modify the volume of each track as well as the direction the sound is coming from (pan).  Within each track you can make subtle changes to the volume and pan.   Dave created an amazing music score for the movie that was mixed in with the voices and special effects.

The picture shows the interface to auction and some of the tracks.  At the top you can see how we varied the pan (blue line) and volume (yellow line) of the space ship rumble track as the ship passes by in the intro scenes.   The larger clip on the send line is the music score.  Dave and I spent about a week tweaking the levels and timing to get everything so we liked it.