Audition is not finding all the session files.

Report · Dec 14, 2024

I’m having a little bit of trouble with Adobe Audition, for some reason its not finding all the session files.

Here’s some context. I’m working on a film where all the audio has been done inside premiere. I imported the premiere project file into audition to do a 5.1 mix and everything is good. I can access the project file from a different computer over the network and it finds the files every time.

However when I copy the entire project over to a SSD to work on it on the go there are select video and audio files audition cannot find and its making me link hundreds of files individually in a very inconvenient way compared to how premiere does it. The premiere project file that is linked to the session can find all the files fine, the file structure hasn’t changed to when I copied it over to the SSD and I just don’t know why this is happening.

The picture is what I get when I open the file up on the ssd.

Report · Dec 15, 2024

If I've understood this correctly, you've run into the difference between Audition being linked to a Premiere session (and its resources) and an actual Audition session - they are definitely not the same thing! When you edit the Premiere session/project in Audition, it's a part of a (hidden) round trip process, and on that basis Audition doesn't need to know where all the resources are. To extract that as a separate Audition session, it would definitely help if all the associated files, or copies of them, were in the same folder. At that point you should be able to open the session in Audition with all the files in the correct place, and store that as a separate session - which you should be able to reference without anything missing.

At least that's what I think is happening - the round trip system appears to have its limits, and I think you may have run into one of them. In theory at least, it is still a work in progress. The way it was described to me (some time ago) by one of the developers was that the process could only really work the way it was intended to if Premiere and Audition were running at the same time and sharing resources - which is effectively what happens when you do the round trip thing.

Report · Dec 15, 2024

Hi @SteveG_AudioMasters_,

Thank you for your reply, I think I almost understand what you’re saying, that maybe audition isn’t quite prepared to handle larger projects?

Report · Dec 16, 2024

No, it's not that. It has everything to do with the fact that, despite it being promised years ago, no direct linkage has ever been created between Premiere's Bin system and Audition. IOW give Audition Bins. My understanding is that actually, this is something that's quite complicated to achieve, but until something is done about rationalising a solution to this, there are going to be hiccups of the sort you're having.