Healing Brush locking up Audition?

Report · Mar 04, 2020

Since I accepted an Adobe-pushed update to 13.0.3.60, Audition locks up immediately on trying to use the healing brush?

Please reply with your experience: both no problems, and yes problems.

If many of us are using healing brush on 13.0.3.60 without problems, then it's a subtler problem.

But if it's locking up for everyone, then the work-around is simple: roll back to an earlier version.

I just tried rolling back to13.0.2.35. At first this seemed good, but about 1-minute's use of healing brush, and I'm seeing the same result: 1.5 of my 16 cores is continuously pegged, and Audtion's cursor is an endless blue spinny circle.

Report · Mar 04, 2020

13.0.1.35 seems to be the trick. No hangs.

Also, I noticed a suggestive pattern. On Audition versions 13.0.2 & 13.0.3, I never saw the % complete icon pop up, so I was just brush stroking away fast and furious like one might in Photoshop. But once I reinstalled and used 13.0.1.35, the %complete icon would pop up after each brush stoke, and that slowed me down (just a titch). Perhaps the rapid brush stroking (in the later Audition versions) was causing the lock-ups?

Report · Mar 04, 2020

Update: I then re-updated to the current 13.0.3.60, and now it's acting okay. Granted, I'm avoiding slapping on healing brush strokes rapid-fire. But so far no lock-ups. Go figure.

Report · Mar 05, 2020

I tested this using the current 13.0.3.60 release on this laptop with its pathetic two cores... 😉 and ran some process monitoring at the same time. I couldn't get the CPU usage over 2%, whatever I did with the healing brush, never mind how long I did it for. And no lock-ups or anything.

The only thing that I could think of that might affect the performance of this, since it's display-related, is whether you are using hardware acceleration or not:

If it's on, turn it off and try again. Or vice versa. I have no idea whether it's related or not, but it's the only thing I can think of that might make a difference. I am presuming, incidentally, that you are using a PC.