I'm currently working on a podcast series with two other producers. We are collaborating on the episodes together, one person doing the first pass of roughing in elements, another adding clips and other supplements over the top, a third adding in music, etc.
We are keeping the project in a shared Dropbox folder to which we all have full access.
When we create the initial multitrack session in Audition, it automatically copies all the referenced files into a folder within the folder where the .sesx file is, called "Imported Files". I like this feature, because it means everything needed for the project to relink lives in that place and isn't referencing stuff on, for instance, an external drive or whatever that might disappear.
Recently, I did a "Save As" of an .sesx file because I was planning on doing some work in parallel with one of the other editors. The idea was to split off and then import my changes into the other copy when done, since we were doing different things to the same basically locked baseline edit.
When I saved my dupe of the .sesx file, Audition began exporting/saving duplicate copies of all our media into the "Imported Files" folder. So we ended up with copies of files living right next to the originals, and doubled the amount of space the folder was taking.
In Premiere (I confess, I'm more of a video editor), this would all work seamlessly, because the project just points to a file somewhere when it references media. You can duplicate projects and reference the same media and nothing gets copied over and over unless you're trying to do that.
What is also strange is I have other projects where this workflow has worked fine - where someone will record, for instance, an episode of a podcast AND the ad reads for the same show, and some generic promos, all on the same long .wav file.
I can typically take the first .sesx file, save it as -episode, save it again as -ads, save it again as -promos, and all three of these .sesx files exist happily in the same folder referencing the same media and nothing ever gets duped by Audition.
So, my question is: why is Audition creating these unnecessary copies on our larger project, and is there a way to stop it?
Right now, we are going to just do it manually, by moving the copied versions out of the folder, re-opening the project, and re-linking to our original (identical) media. Which is fine, I just don't understand why it's happening in the first place.
Many thanks if anyone can offer insight into that! And because you're probably going to ask, we're all running Audition CC 2018.
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