[Durin Gleaves]

Hi Kevin,

I don’t believe the “Convert to Unique Clip” command functioned with multiple clips in CS6. That functionality came in a later version.

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Durin Gleaves
Adobe Audition

[Durin Gleaves]

If you take the 5.1 audio file into Audition, use Edit > Extract Channels to Mono Files… to easily separate each channel to a unique file, labeled with the channel label from each track.

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Durin Gleaves
Adobe Audition

[Durin Gleaves]

Yes, you can import the video into the Audition multitrack timeline, then record and assemble new audio. Use File > Export > Export to Adobe Media Encoder… to merge the multitrack audio with the original video footage in AME.

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Durin Gleaves
Adobe Audition

[Durin Gleaves]

Rob is correct – any editing done and saved in Audition’s “Waveform” view is destructive and does overwrite the source audio file. Work in Multitrack view just references media files, and doesn’t change bits on disk.

When you use the “Edit Clip in Adobe Audition” command from Premiere Pro, Premiere performs a Render and Replace operation, generating a new WAV file on disk, relinking the clip in the Sequence timeline, then sending that new file to Audition. When you save a change in Audition, the file on disk is changed, and the clip is updated when returning to Premiere.

Your original source media is not changed, however. The Render-and-Replace operation makes sure you’re only working with a copy. If you choose “Edit Original” and Audition is defined as the default application for that file format, then you may be overwriting the original asset, but that’s a more defined workflow. IF an audio file was created by Audition, as the result of a mixdown of a multitrack session, then Edit Original will give you the option of opening the raw audio file or the mutlitrack session that created it.

Hope that helps!

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Durin Gleaves
Adobe Audition

[Durin Gleaves]

Hi Steve,

If you only have a microphone feeding one of the inputs, there’s no stereo/2-channel signal for Audition to record. Even if you could easily get the waveform in both channels, it’s just duplicating the information and doubling your file size with no appreciable benefits. In this case, I’d recommend selecting the individual mono input channel that your microphone is connected to as the input source for the track and recording a mono file. As long as the track or Master track in Audition is Stereo, you’ll be able to pan that signal wherever you like in the Stereo field – dead center, it would play back from both L and R speakers equally.

[Durin Gleaves]

I have an open feature request with the team to enable this behavior within Audition itself, but there are 2 workarounds available right now.

The first is to simply choose File > Export > Multitrack Mixdown and click the “Change” button next to “Mixdown Options.” You can toggle a Mono mixdown directly from here.

As for actually changing the channelization of the session itself, this can be done manually by opening your .SESX file in a text editor. The Audition session format is just an XML file which you can edit by hand. Notably, there are two items to look for. The opening tag near the top of the file and the tag near the bottom of the track listings. Change the “audioChannelType” from “stereo” to “mono” or “fivePointOne”

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Durin Gleaves
Adobe Audition

[Durin Gleaves]

“Audio from Premiere to Audition is lame lame lame because when the audio goes from Premiere to Audition, the media is transcoded and the timecode is re-written to where ever it is in the Premiere time line. This means conforming any picture changes is virtually impossible, and I literally have to use old-school metadata: paper and pen. ”

We’ll have to take a look at this and see what’s happening. Losing embedded timecode should not be okay. Can you get in touch with me at audbugs@adobe.com?

Thanks

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Durin Gleaves
Adobe Audition

[Durin Gleaves]

Audition should not be crashing as you describe. If you can send a crash log file, we might be able to see what is invoking this behavior. You can send the log file with the following steps:
1. After Audition crashes, launch Applications/Utilities/Console.app
2. Open the “User Diagnostics Reports” group and locate the most recent entry for Audition
3. Drag this to an e-mail and send to audbugs@adobe.com

If you can also include your session .SESX file (not the media) this can be helpful in troubleshooting as well. Are you using any third-party plug-ins, or just the standard Audition effects?

Thanks

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Durin Gleaves
Adobe Audition

[Durin Gleaves]

Premiere Pro does not currently support importing of 5.1 AC3 or EC3 files, though this support is anticipated for an upcoming release.

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Durin Gleaves
Adobe Audition

[Durin Gleaves]

I took a look at both files in Spectral Frequency View and with the Frequency Analysis panel open. It looks like the original, sharp file contains a true stereo signal, with different signals in each channel. The dull file is completely mono. The dullness could very well be introduced by this change or potential phase issues, depending on the operations applied, canceling out some of the unique signals in each channel.

Sharp image:

Dull image:

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Durin Gleaves
Adobe Audition