Finding clipped audio

[Steve Brame]

Not familiar with anything ‘automatic’ in Premiere Pro, however, it’s ‘nearly automatic’ in Audition. Here’s a great tutorial for Audition CS5.5, but it carries through to the current version.

https://tv.adobe.com/watch/short-and-suite/batch-processing-with-ame-adobe-media-encoder-adobe-audition-cs55/

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[Gary Smith]

Thanks Steve, good clip, very informative and i learned a bit more. cheers.

[Richard Herd]

Audition is great and the sending to it is cool. There is an issue to manage: when Premiere sends the clips to Audition, it re-writes the audio’s timecode based on where the audio is in the sequence. In the old final cut pro 7 and sound track pro workflow there is an option to conform the mix in STP with the Sequence in FCP7. That is not the case with Premiere/Audition round tripping.

Here’s an example. I edited a 13 minute industrial full of talking heads against a green screen. The footage was from 10 different shooters and different mics, and so on. Audition was great at making all the audio sound the same with various effects and sends and bussing and so on. It was a complicated mix. Sent the stereo pair to Premiere and exported for client review and there were changes. Oh boy. Not cool. I had to clip out some audio, which meant the picture changed, and there is no good way to conform the picture and audio, and because the mix was so complicated, I couldn’t redo it, and because the timecode was rewritten, I couldn’t just link it back up. So I ended up keeping a handwritten edit decision list and manually match the two. Fortunately, there were few changes, but had there been a total re-edit, it would have been time suck. I told Dennis from Adobe about this, and I hope they are fixing it, or have fixed it.

[Steve Brame]

[Richard Herd] “I had to clip out some audio, which meant the picture changed”

Do you mean that you went back in to Audition to re-cut the audio, or you did it in Premiere?

Since the ‘Premiere to Audition’ method doesn’t actually send the video clip over to Audition, but merely creates a separate WAV file, replacing the video’s audio interleave, certainly returning to Audition to cut the audio will cause sync problems. One solution is of course to link the video and audio, then cut in Premiere. “Roundtripping” in this method isn’t truly “roundtripping”, in which you would come back to Premiere with a video clip with the audio intact, but those details are overlooked by marketing types.

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[Richard Herd]

[Steve Brame] “Do you mean that you went back in to Audition to re-cut the audio, or you did it in Premiere?”

I had to recut the audio in Audition, by using the timecode from Premiere.