Can't Export from Audition to Premiere Pro

Question

So when I do my videos I load in my footage to Premiere, then I immediately choose the "Edit Clip In Audition" option for the audio. Then I edit the Audio in Audition to my liking. Currently when I'm done editing the audio, I have to Export it to a folder, then drag that new audio file into my Premiere Timeline and replace the extracted audio clip with the edited audio clip. This often leads to minor mistakes in synchronizing, or just stupid errors on my part from human error.

My problem is, Why can't I just export the audio directly back to Adobe Audition? If I send a clip from Premiere to After Effects and create a composition, the clip automatically appears in Premiere as the Composition. Why in the world wouldn't that be the case with audio and Audition? And more so, the option to "Export to Premiere Pro" has been greyed out for many months now. When I very first started using the Adobe CC I was able to do this dance, then suddenly the optioned became greyed out. Now numerous updates later it still doesn't work. I've fully removed and reinstalled all of the Adobe Creative Cloud multiple times on two different computers and neither can perform this function.

What gives?

Premiere Pro Version: 12.1.2

Audition Version: 11.1.3

ryclark · Accepted Answer

Well that is certainly strange since I don't even have Premiere Pro installed but I can still use the Export to Premiere Pro to output a file from my Audition installation.  However you have to remember that this function only works from the Multitrack view so it will be greyed out if you are working on an audio file in Waveform view.

Falk Oswald · Answer

The Export to Premiere option is only available if you have a Multitrack Session, not for Wave files. For Wave Files, you do not need a "export back" .

This is what happens if you do an "Edit Clip in Adobe Audition":

The Audio portion of the Premiere Clip is Rendered+Replaced as a wave file.
The name will be something link "MyAwesomeFile Audio Extracted.wav" where Audio Extracted is the suffix appended to the file each time you perform the operation
This new audio file is now referenced by the Premiere Sequence
The new audio file is opened in Adobe Audition for destructive editing.

Destructive editing means that if you start modifying the audio file in Audition, all changes get written directly back to the file on disk once you save the file.

Because of this, the content is directly updated if you switch back to Premiere Pro, without any further actions required in Audition or Premiere Pro. So you do not need to re-import the file in PrPro and drag it to the timeline.

Note that if you do "Edit Clip in Adobe Audition" a second time on the same clip, a new Render+Replace will take place, so you would eventually create a new wave file, named "MyAwesomeFile Audio Extracted Audio Extracted.wav". To prevent this, you can re-open the referenced file directly in Audition again (i.e. the "old one" -> "MyAwesomeFile Audio Extracted.wav") and continue editing. Again, any changes to the file will be directly reflected in Premiere Pro.

Hope this helps

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