Editing source files of Multitrack editor

[elizabethm58599191]

Hi all,

I am pretty new to Audition. I am working through a series of videos and am trying to clean up the audio in Audition. Each video has several audio files and so I have imported all of the files from one video into the multitrack editor. I want to do some more precise work and so I clicked "edit source audio" but now I can't figure out how to get the edited audio back to multitrack. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. 

[SuiteSpot]

If you save the edits while in edit view they will be refleckted in the multitrack

Press 0 (zero) to return to Multitrack view

[elizabethm58599191]

Thank you for your reply. I am trying to make edits but even after I save and go back to the multitrack, the track seems to be unchanged. Any suggestions? 

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Okay, I'm slightly confused with this now. Where did you start from? Was it Premiere? If you simply make changes to the audio from a video opened in Audition, you won't be able to save the changes to it anyway - Audition won't do that. If  you open the file in Premiere and select the option to edit in Audition, you have to be careful if you reopen any of the files from multitrack in Waveform view - whatever you do, don't alter the length of them, because that will immediately put everything after the edit out of the original sync it had when you re-export back to Premiere.

My apologies if you knew all this already, but to me it's not quite clear as to the process you are going though...

[elizabethm58599191]

Hi! I am starting from audition. I imported the project file from Premiere. I am having trouble getting the multitrack to reflect changes I've made when editing the "source file."

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

You're a bit stuck if you do it like that anyway - as I said, Audition won't be able to save any changes at all to the video. You really ought to start the process from Premiere, and use the file interchange process that provides. You still get to edit in Audition, but when you're done, the result automatically returns to Premiere into the project file it came from. And when you're done, you have to re-export the media via Windows Media Encoder.

So yes, Audition will open Premiere session files - but the only thing you can do with them is to extract the audio and use it on its own. Sometimes this is useful, but not that often...