[Ozpeter]

If you’ve got Audition 1.5, the help file will tell you how to use the CD Project View.

Alternatively, you can split a file into separate pieces to be recorded as tracks using Nero or whatever, by using track cue RANGES in Edit View – not points – and using the batch key in the cue list window to output the ranges to separate files.

If you simply place track cue points in your file in edit view at each point where you want a CD track to begin (including the first), and save and exit, you can then use CueListTool (freeware) to prepare a cue sheet which Nero and many other CD buring programs will recognise.

[Ozpeter]

An alternative is to use the tickbox in the save as dialog which says “save copies of all associated files” – you can use that to make a package of the whole thing, without unused files, in another directory for instance.

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Google turns up several converters from amr to wav – eg https://www.gromkov.com/faq/faq2004-0087.html

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If you are using Audition 1.5, and if the camera mic was a stereo mic, and if it was pointing towards the person speaking – then, you could try the Centre Channel Extractor effect to increase the level of the voice in the centre compared with everything else.

Alternatively, try the parametric equaliser, and create a “hump” in its graphic display, which then slowly drag from side to side to try to hear whether, by boosting the level of different frequencies, you help to increase the clarity of the voice. Process the file with the clearest setting this experiment reveals. (Shorthand description – hope it points you in the right direction).

[Ozpeter]

In multitrack view, alt + 2 brings up the mixer, where you can set the relative levels of the tracks to achieve the balance that you require, and also set the overall level with the master fader so that the loudest part of the aggregate of tracks does not clip. If you set options > settings > multitrack > premixing to 32 bit, within the mixer you will have 1500dB of dynamic range, so clipping is very unlikely to become an issue.

Furthermore if you set Options > Settings > Multitrack > Mixdowns to 32 bit as well, you can more or less forget about clipping altogether – in your mixdown at any rate. When the mixdown appears in edit view, even though it might look and sound horribly clipped, simply normalise it to say 99% and hey presto, you’ve got a completely undistorted file. Then press F11 to convert it to 16 bits (if that’s how you want it to end up).

Try it with a bit of loud music. Have the same clip duplicated across say four tracks. Raise the level of each track in the mixer by say 10dB and leave the master on zero dB. Played back it will sound horrible because your soundcard won’t be able to cope. Mixed down it will look like one solid block of colour, not a waveform. But normalise it and the magic happens. Audition can handle it – in 32 bits – quite happily internally.

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There is no session conversion option. You can only mix down and convert the result. When any change is required, modify the session, mix down, convert. The only downside is the time taken to convert after each mixdown.

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I guess time taken to apply will depend very much on size of file and speed of PC.

Inherently, Audition does not process audio as it is recorded – it simply passes what the soundcard digitises to the drive. Also, it records to “temp” files so that having recorded you then have to wait while the file saves. Consequently, for long live recordings it has some drawbacks compared with, say, Cubase SX3 which records direct to the final file, and which can apply effects to the incoming audio stream.

Downside of Cubase SX3 is a high level of complication. Downside of recording effects onto incoming audio is you can’t change your mind afterwards if you realise you got it wrong.

Depending on your soundcard – consumer ones are best for the purpose – there is (or was) a freeware program called “ALC-Record” which will adjust incoming audio level automatically and thus apply a degree of compression ‘on the fly’.

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Derrick, I have the BCF and as indicated earlier, while it enables operation of the Audition mixer and some other functions, (and if you move a fader on the screen the BCF fader moves appropriately), because there is no automation in Audition 1.5 you can’t “replay” the moves. Some have speculated that you might be able to use a sequencer to memorise the moves outside of Audition, but really that’s not a worthwhile solution – you might as well use another program which does both.

But I’d repeat that the envelope functions in Audition are, for me, all that is really required and in many situations it’s quicker to hand-draw envelopes rather than having to record fader movements etc.

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I’ve never heard of anyone using a controller to create volume envelopes in Audition. How is that done without a mouse? The world would beat a path to the door of anyone who could do it. You can use any Mackie Control type controller with Audition, and it will move Audition’s mixer faders, but as the mixer is static and not automated, it doesn’t really get you very far.

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Simply open the file and save it in the correct format. It’s basically an mp3 file, so you’ll have lost some quality by saving it in the lossy format, but if you can’t hear the difference, never mind!