Can't Export from Audition to Premiere Pro

[mandicreally]

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 solution]

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.

[mandicreally]

Egg on my face, that is the problem.  I work in waveform view 90% of the time as I'm just editing a single clip for cleaner audio.  However I'm quite certain when I first started using the Adobe CC I was able to do this from Waveform view.  Am I just miss remembering?  I've only been on the Adobe software for a little over a year at this point. 

[Jalins6]

Why? Why? WHY is this true? WHY can't I export in waveform? I have no interest in using multitrack and I do not care that waveform is destructive and multitrack is not. I do not like using multitrack. I just want to go in, record something, destructively edit it and immediately export it to Premiere Pro once I'm happy with it, without having to load it into multitrack first. Why can't it be that simple? Why do they not only have to make it complicated, but non-intuitively to the point you can't even figure out how it does need to be done on your own? I have to do internet searches like this one to figure out that what I want to do cannot be done under any circumstances. 

[lorenm84878416]

It's now three years later, and nobody has corrected this stupid shortcoming. I did a simple capture noise print/sound reduction process, went to Save it and...where is it? Why has it not updated in my Premiere Timeline?

Hello?

Best as always,
Loren

[Falk Oswald]

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

[defaulto7k1846b33jl]

Thank you for explaining this so well, very helpful!