Wanting to use Audition to mix final audio

[Vince Becquiot]

You are right, and it is a shame. Not only can you not import a project, but it doesn’t even support AAF… (hmmm)

My advice, if you plan on doing more audio post, invest in a small ProTools rig. The M-audio version makes it quite affordable.

Vince

[Scott Rucci]

That’s what I thought. Thanks.

Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
ruccipro.com

[Steven L. gotz]

You could always export one track at a time and import them all into Audition. Turn off all but one track and export. Repeat as necessary.

Steven

https://www.stevengotz.com

[Scott Rucci]

Yeah, I’ll have to weigh that against doing it in Premiere. If I export the tracks I lose the reference to the original clips without tracing them back through Premiere, which could make changes tricky. I’m sure I can get it done in Premiere/Soundbooth, it just seems like it would be a lot easier and quicker in Audition.

Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
ruccipro.com

[Darren Edwards]

Why not simply install Audition on your CS3 suite? License issues?
Like most Audition purists, it’s ver 1.5 or nothing for me as far as
Adobe is concerned.

D.

x-gf.com

[Scott Rucci]

I don’t think having them on the same system changes anything, does it? If it does, I’ll see if I can get it on both systems.

Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
ruccipro.com

[Terry Kampowski]

Here’s a possible solution I copied, but have not tried.

Adobe Bridge:
-Open Adobe Bridge
-Click in Edit > Preferences (or Press “Ctrl + K”)
-Click in File Type Associations, and select the audio files like .wav, .mp3 or the format you’ll edit in AA3, click in the down arrow and then Browse
-Point to the Audition.exe file in the folder C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Audition 3.0\
-Click OK and close Bridge
Now open the Premiere Pro CS3:
-Right click the audio track / piece you want to edit, select Edit in Adobe Soundbooth > Render and Replace
-It will render a temp file and open Soundbooth, you can close it now and come back to Premiere Pro CS3
-In the left window, where the audio and video files are placed in Premiere, right click in the new audio file that was rendered and Click Reveal in Bridge. It will open the Adobe Bridge window now.
-Right click in the file (in the Bridge window) and select Open with > Adobe Audition 3.0 (default).
-Be happy and edit the track in Adobe Audition now! When you save the file and come back to Premiere pro, it will re-render automatically and you wont touch your original source audio file!

[Darren Edwards]

Sorry if I sounded unhelpful. One advantage of having Audition
(as opposed to Soundtrack) on the same system is that Audition
is more powerful; the second is that ver 1.5 of Audition is
considered better to anything Adobe has released since. (I actually
prefer 1.5 for WAV editing/mixing to anything Pro Tools or Logic
can offer.)

Terry mentions a way of linking files with Bridge, but I find
the CS3 workflow fairly automated anyway — when a WAV file
is effected and re-saved, PPro (along with whatever CS3 prog
is open) will instinctively re-conform/re-transcode the file.

Darren.

x-gf.com

[Scott Rucci]

Thanks for that. Actually, Soundbooth will work alright for what I need to do for individual clips. What would be nice to bring into Audition is the whole timeline so you can do you mixing and processing all in one place with quick and easy to see displays and lots of nice tools conveniently arranged. This is like bringing a group of video clips into AE. All the timing comes across and many of the Premiere effects. You do the AE work and then replace your Premiere clips with a dynamically linked AE comp. Nice workflow, but it seems it’s not going to happen with audio.

Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
ruccipro.com

[Tim Kolb]

As far as Audition 1.5 being the best thing ever…I’m not sure what’s wrong with Audition 2.0…I have it (CS2) installed with my CS3 apps on all my machines…haven’t installed v3 yet.

I usually take production audio and track it in PPro anyway…narrator all on one track, bed on another, interview 1 on another, interview 2 on another…nat snd on its own track….etc.

I export each track based on a single range with a marker…and simply drop each clip into Audition with absolute sync as each clip is the same length. Sweetening audio is straightforward as each Audition track is one type of audio so effects/EQ/compression can all be done for the track for the most part.

Render…drop onto another audio track designated for master audio…make a change…re-export the audio tracks that changed, re-output the mix.

Not necessarily a one-click solution, but it does work for me.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects