Dynamic Link between Audition and Premiere Pro

This is almost going to sound like a moan...

miriamlovessound  wrote
I feel that the dynamic link is for editors who want to do some quick audio work and not for complex sound design.
Basically I want to know what exactly peoples thoughts are on this and why they would or wouldn't prefer using dynamic link.

The thing about video production is that there are many different approaches to the way you do the sound part of it, and obviously not all methods are really going to suit all productions. I used to do a lot of documentary work, and the processes that I used to 'sweeten' sound relied more on having a basic actuality sound track originally edited on the VTR, which you could subsequently lay off onto a multitrack machine that was SMPTE-locked to the VT machine - a process that on its own that could be troublesome in terms of actually achieving a lock, with quite extensive pre-roll times, and it was dead easy to get it a frame out...

Technically at this point, you could run the multitrack on its own to add and edit other material, and that's generally what we did - without pictures. We only ever looked at the end result at the point of lay-back - when the multitrack output was going via a mixer. And yes, you could have several goes at it before you got it right - what a pain that was!

Now that is basically what you have been doing up to this point, hopefully without all the sync hassle, and personally I don't have any particular problems with working like that either. Essentially what should ultimately happen with the Dynamic Link process is exactly what it says on the tin - you'd be running Premiere and Audition together at the same time so that it would be possible to make changes on the fly before committing yourself at the encoding stage. But hey, it doesn't do that, does it? Yes there's a 'dynamic link' in terms of clips and placement but there's no way to sync the playback in Audition and Premiere so that there's a real dynamic link that actually appears to link the transports, and that's what I'd prefer to see happening one day. Yes I realise that there are some significant stumbling blocks to this - not least that you'd almost require a separate transport control model to lock them, and you'd have to sort out where the audio was actually coming from. Oh, hang on a minute, that's exactly what we had to do to achieve our original lay-offs...

But hey, this is technically still a work in progress - I realise that. But for me, I'd rather prefer to be able to use a Dynamic Link - if there was a real one. As it stands, it's almost frustrating (unless I've missed something, but I don't think I have - answers on a postcard please). Until then, your preferred method of working is more or less the one I'll stick with too - basic video edit with actuality, save it and open it in Audition, do all the work and then have the annoyance of having to lay the revised audio back in Premiere again, because you can't do that any more in Audition (despite the fact that you used to be able to...)

So I dunno - it still appears to need work, certainly in the way it's displayed.

I'd love to get ryclark​ or SteveG(AudioMasters) or  one of the other folks around here to comment on this also.

Neil