Does Audition have a "Fill Right" effect like in Premiere?

[alexdejesus]

I'm working on a sequence exported from Premiere. One of the three stereo tracks is recorded only on the left channel. In Premiere, the easy fix is the "fill right" or "fill left" effect. How is that handled in Audition?

I plan to export the separate tracks back to Premiere.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Accepted solution]

Yes.Open the track in Wavefom view and in Effects>Amplitude and Compression>Channel Mixer. It's in there as a preset.

[alexdejesus]

Thanks! I knew it was there somewhere

[907 Nomad]

Steve ~

You say "track" here.  Can you open an entire Audition track with the method?  Or just individual clips?

My situation:  I have a stereo track, R channel lav, L channel boom.  The lav channel sounds much better due to the location.  I'd like to use only that, but can't figure out how to silence the boom channel and make the lav audio come out of both L & R channels.  There are literally hundreds of edits here (if not a thousand), so taking each clip into the waveform monitor would take a day or more.

All the dialogue is on a single track, and I've tried to open up the entire track to affect all the clips at once.  If it's possible I'm doing something wrong because I can't get it to work... it only opens single clips.  That's been my past experience with the waveform monitor.

If I can't do the entire track, do you have any other suggestions on how to accomplish this?  Thanks for any help.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

If you have a master file that you've taken a lot of clips out of, then opening the master file in Audition and altering the whole of it there will affect all of the clips from it, wherever you've put them. On that basis, I think your workload would be somewhat reduced...

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

But to return for a moment to your other issue of not appearing to be able to open more than one clip at a time, even though they're all from a single file - well, that's impossible!

Audition's multi-track view is non-destructive, so if you double-click on a clip to open it, you have to open the whole file, as the 'clip' is only a play command applied to this section of the file. You may think you're only seeing the clip, but if you expand the waveform view out using the grab bars on the navigation bar above the waveform, you'll find that the whole file is open.

[907 Nomad]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the reply.  The reason why they are not opening from a single clip is that it's exported from Premiere Pro.  When I do this, Premiere automatically makes sub-clips from the material, so one take can be divided up into dozens of smaller clips with 1 second handles.  So unfortunately there are hundreds of clips in this project that I would need to take into waveform view.

Thanks for your help, you gave me the answer that I was afraid was the case.  I've always thought Audition would be an unbeatable tool if they worked out three things:  1) Fixing the messes (like this one) that mono/stereo tracks cause.  It was never an issue in FCP7 or Soundtrack.  Wish they could take a page from their playbook.  2) Being able to copy/paste effects from clip to clip or track to track 3) Letting us organize our projects and media in bins.

90% of all my problems with Audition originate from these three issues.

While I love the advancements they're making with each new version of Audition, I'm baffled why they can't find a solution for these three things which I find coming up time and time again in the forums with posts dating back to 2005 and beyond.  I've filed several "Feature Requests" over the years.  Maybe some day.

Thanks again.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Ah, I see. Well, it is still a work in progress...

The only thing I can think of doing for the moment, if you have the problem again, is to head this off at the pass. IOW, process the audio before cutting it in Premiere, perhaps?

[Charles VW]

Heidi Graham wrote:

2) Being able to copy/paste effects from clip to clip or track to track

You should be able to drag/drop effects from one slot on a track in the Mixer Panel to another slot on another track to copy it (in the Multitrack).

Similarly, you can create a "Rack Preset" on any clip's Effects Rack or track's Effects Rack, and apply it to some new location.