Multitrack export too short

[Joseph W. bourke]

You might want to try Time Stretching. You can lengthen the runtime without altering the pitch:

https://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/time-stretching

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Mitch Jordan]

Thanks. I did try that- I stretched it out to 30 seconds. Does Audition only export audio above a certain threshold? If I’m fading the sound down, it seems to cut off before the actual end of the audio clip. I’ve added fades to the end of all my audio tracks, but the actual end of each clip is exactly at 30 seconds.

[Paul Figgiani]

Mitch,

Try this:

Make your spot exactly 30 sec. Use the Time Selection Tool to select all track clips, making sure your selection leaves a second or 2 to spare at the end of the piece, like this:

Then Export the session using: File/Export/Multitrack Mixdown/Time Selection …

Now grab the bounced file and open it in the Audition Editor. Trim the end of the piece until your edit is exactly 30 sec. Then save out the file.

-paul.

[Dennis Callan]

Thanks for that tip about including extra empty time at the end of an audio take. This also applies to using a mic to record narration, which was causing me grief with various takes chopped off prematurely — I thought I was being efficient to hit stop as soon as I finished talking, uh uh. Now the trick is to know how many seconds to wait before hitting stop, because I don’t want a long empty tale on my sound bite. I googled around and you were the only source of a fool-proof solution, thanks. Then my wife said, “why didn’t you ask me, it happens with Audacity all the time?”