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gasparbidart
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February 21, 2023
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Bin in Project panel

  • February 21, 2023
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Hello!
It would be very useful and necessary to have the possibility to create Bins in the audition Project panel. There are sessions with many files. Having the option to create bins as in Premiere or After Effects would be more ordered.
Thank you

107 replies

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 23, 2023

I'm afraid that at present that's exactly what you have to do - accept it, or use other software. Adobe haven't said why they removed it from the beta, but there must have been a good reason; it's pretty rare for a feature to make it as far as a beta and then be removed. IIRC, the previous time it happened was many years ago.

Participant
November 23, 2023

But @SteveG_AudioMasters_ , after all this years the fact that a well established professional DAW (as I want to think of Adobe Audition) lacks this basic file administration feature is simply unacceptable.

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 23, 2023

I think that codys72658089 hit the nail on the head a few posts ago...

Known Participant
November 23, 2023

But to think just how much that would help the development cycle!!! After randomly inserting the code [because, of course, there is no obvious place to do that, or it would have been done 🙂 Wait, what? object, library, modular... nah don't have time to mess with that. ] The teardown to troubleshoot what went wrong should only take1-3 years, then after the redesign and roadmap strategy sessions, 4 years or so... then migration, framework development, architecture, code base, libray, code management, etc, etc... we should be able to start coding in earnest 5-8 years from now, with delivery of the alpha only another year or so.....

 

I love it! we now have a lock on a delivery date. Cut -n- paste indeed. It is just that simple. NEXT!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! folks. 🙂

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 23, 2023

"Just copy-paste the bit of code."

 

That may be the funniest thing I've heard all week!

Participant
November 23, 2023

Please Adobe, add bins just like Premiere Pro has. 
Just copy-paste the bit of code.

The amount of people that would use Audition instead of other DAWs will be UNIMAGINABLE.

Known Participant
November 9, 2023

Audition Beta did have folders for a year or two. My understanding from talking to an Adobe employee about it was that it was requiring a huge overhall of Audition code in order to make it work. It's possible they've abandoned that, or perhaps my feature unlock code no longer works.

 

But folders in Audition were great while it lasted. To you other issues, with relinking etc. I've never had to relink everything by hand, one by one. Sounds like a frustating case though. Usually nornal re-link works fine for my projects, though things become unlinked rarely. Maybe you're on a NAS etc?

So far I'm not a fan of Protools or Fairlight, but I'll give them another try one of these days, especialyl since protools has a decent free version now. Fairlight I've only ever thought of as mixing, not recording (which is what I use Audition for 75% of the time)

donh9316555
Participant
November 5, 2023

This has been an active request for close to 10 years now, so I wouldn't hold your breath.  If you have enough files to need bins, you also need things like decent media relinking, robust searchable metadata columns, and many other features - all of which Audition does not have.  Have you ever had Audition lose your media links?  It happens. Then you have to manually relink file by file.  We lost an entire day on a project at one point because we had to spend it relinking over 700 audio files one-by-one.  Audition has some great pro features, but unfortunately when it comes to media organization, it's consumer at best.  If you have more than a couple of dozen files, I'd suggest you consider Protools or even the free Fairlight audio tab in Resolve instead.   

Known Participant
August 31, 2023

They had bins for a few years hidden in audition beta! I used it for a while. You could add bins and have multiple multi tracks but they were inside the new audition project file format. 

 

I was told by someone from Adobe at the time, that because of how the code worked, adding things like bins and projects required a lot of refactoring of the core code. 

 

But for whatever reason, bins have been removed from the most recent beta. OR my old unlock code no longer works haha. But it's a shame. 

Known Participant
August 31, 2023

This should be the number one feature to add. So strange that it isn't there like in any other Adobe program. Also please make it the standard behavior that the program is not dropping material which isn't used yet.