How to Insert only part of a file, like an audio subclip, into Multitrack?

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December 27, 2017
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In other words say I have a one minute long Room Tone file. I just want to insert 10 seconds of it on a track of my choosing. Is there any way to do this, or do I have to insert the whole file on another track, cut, and then move?

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SteveG_AudioMasters_

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If you open a file in Waveform view, you can place either markers, or marker ranges if you've made a selection, by hitting F8. You can either then right-click on the marker range, and insert just that into your multitrack session, but if you do that, in reality all you've done is placed the whole track with just your selection visible. To place just the section you want is going to involve creating a separate file of it, and probably the easiest way to do this is to make your selection, and select Edit>Copy to new (shift+Alt+C), and place the resulting file into your session. Clearly you will have to save it at some point, but when you go to close the session you'll get an option to do that.

I have to say though that I'd be very reluctant, especially with a file of room tone, to create a separate file of it, especially one that's only a few seconds long. I'd far rather have the option to be able to extend it slightly if I needed to, and if you want or need to use it again, you can use a different bit (or the same bit, I suppose) elsewhere in your session. In terms of resource usage, there's very little, if any, difference between playing a part of a file on your HD compared to a whole one - and all you've really ended up doing is storing part of an asset twice - if you see what I mean.

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briandkatz1Author

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Appreciate the answer. But I don't see how you can insert from the marker section into the multitrack session. I see there's an item in the context menu for it, but it doesn't work correctly and if the Multitrack Window isn't active, I can't tell where it'd be inserting. At least it wasn't behaving predictably when I tried. But at least now I know about marker sections! TY.

As for the rest of the answer, I think the complexity of it illustrates the problem. I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve all that. 'Cos right now it's just as easy to insert a full file onto a blank track, do my edits, and then move the result where I want to. And that's how I have been doing it. But I want to do it with less work, not more. In Premiere, I can do it by simply bringing the file into the source monitor, setting In & Out Points, and then dragging or other methods to put onto the timeline. Seems crazy to me that a dedicated audio toolset from the same vendor shouldn't be just as easy and intuitive.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

I know this is an old thread, but it was the only one that came up on a search for this topic. Is there really no way to achieve something like this in Audition? As a Premiere editor, this is driving me crazy!

I would love to be able to simply drag and drop a portion of an audio file into my multitrack sequence without overwriting whatever else comes later on the track (in the case of a very long recording I just need a small portion of)! I'm not sure how Audition decides where to place a clip when I use Insert into Multitrack from the waveform view, but it certainly isn't at the playhead like I'd expect.

Is the expected workflow really to always have an empty track to drag long audio files onto before trimming in the multitrack view and moving onto another track? If there is a better way, someone please enlighten me!

You can determine the placement of multiple clips in Edit>Preferences>Multitrack clips, but the placement on a track of an individual clip will be at the point you last had the cursor when in Multitrack, and on the highlighted track - so if you leave it somewhere strange, that's where your clip will be placed.

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