Blank Segment when Reopening SESX file.

[jasonh21189773]

This has consistently happened every time I use my current workflow for adding music to a VO in Multitrack Mode.

I open my template (2 tracks. 1 Voice and 1 Music with some plugins in the Effects Rack). I Save As... the new file name. I drop the voice into Track 1. I drop an MP3 into Track 2. I enable Remix on the music. Drag to get the music length where I want it. Tweak any of the plugins that need to be tweaked. Then I Mixdown Entire Session to New File. I then Save the SESX file. 

If I open it again, the remixed music is still there all split like it was before, but the actual waveform is gone and if I play it the music is just silent. If I double click on the segment it opens the music and it'll play just fine, it just is blank in Multitrack mode. The only way I have been able to fix it is to delete the segment, readd the music, and remix it again. If I Save it and open it immediately back up the waveform is gone again. 

[SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Accepted solution]

I think that the problem here is that you're trying to drop an MP3 file in, and Audition doesn't handle those directly, as it can only work in its native format, which is wav. So what it does when presented with an MP3 is to decode it to a wav file, and open that. If you don't save that file, for whatever reason, then Audition has to go through the whole process again. So you need to save copies of all associated files (even though you didn't necessarily realise that you'd generated any), and if you do that, it should then open up correctly.

[jasonh21189773]

Ok got it! I'll save the audio files as wav before I drop them in so it doesn't have to decode each time. 

Thanks!!

[jasonh21189773]

Yep, that did it. Thanks for the easy solution 🙂