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sarah24336652zrxn
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January 27, 2023
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Audition Multi Track and Waveform Editor HELP!

  • January 27, 2023
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I would like to edit the waveform file in the waveform editor - however when I edit the fille it takes the corresponding file out of sync in the multitrack editor.

 

To explain: I am working on a podcast and I have edited the interview in the waveform editor. I have then brought the track into the multitrack editor to create a first draft of the podcast with music cues. Now that I have notes from my boss, I need to go back through and edit the waveform file in the waveform editor of the interview. When I do this, it puts it out of sync in the multitrack editor so that all the music cues become incorrect. I need to go back through the interview waveform file and correct it without destroying all the work i did in the multitrack editor. How can I fix this? Is it by syncing the two files or something? If it can't be done with this file - how can I prevent the same issue from happening in the future.

 

This is my first time using this program and any guidance would be appreciated. I understand that editing the waveform is destructive - sorry it's just way easier and faster so I don't really care and have the files saved elsewhere.

 

Thanks for your help.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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January 27, 2023

I'm afraid it's inevitable if you do it like that! Multitrack view is really just a very posh file player - so if you edit a file that was previously lined up by making temporal cuts in it, then it will get shorter, because the file has to be contiguous. So the end occurs earlier than it did, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

 

The thing to do is to learn to edit in Multitrack. That way you can delete sections without everything afterwards being affected at all - if you cut something out either by splitting the track, or simply by silencing it using the volume automation, then everything afterwards stays where it is - or if you want, you can move it. And it's way more flexible, because it's much easier to restore things that way. Personally I think it's quicker to achieve a good result that way as well - simply because any time you might gain doing a 'faster' edit is going to be lost - and some - putting the edit back together afterwards.

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sarah24336652zrxnAuthor
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January 28, 2023

Thanks so much!

 

I suppose there's just a learning curve here. And a lot of the Adobe tutorials make it seem like that's how you should edit it - I've now had to redo my work 2x and not looking forwards to a 3rd time when the deadline is very soon...

 

I was also struggling to edit in Multitrack even after viewing almost all the tutorials I don't know if there was an error in the app at the time (could be solved by restarting). For ex: I would cut a pause or um and then was frustrating by the gap or ripple remaining, not deleting automatically and even after I tried to delete it - perhaps a setting issue?  I know I may sound dumb but I have a lot of facility with photoshop and primiere - just not this and the editing mechanism in multitrack seems so much clunkier and slower than in primiere for example. 

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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January 28, 2023

Well here, cutting, copying, pasting and deleting all work fine in Multitrack view, and all the normal shortcuts do too. There are no errors in this aspect of it at all - haven't been for years and it's absolutely not slow and clunky! What's particularly useful is that you can cut and paste across tracks, so you get far more flexibility than you ever would in Waveform view. And it doesn't touch any of your original files, so reversions are easy, especially if you store versions of your session file as you go, which takes up hardly any room at all compared to versioning in Waveform, which has to store all the audio too, each time you do it.

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