Multitrack opened on 2 different computers looks different

[michaels37286825]

Hi,

I insert few recordings into multitrack, saved it and gave colleague to cut it.

Received a multitrack file that on the beginning looks good but further the timeline there is more "delay".

Finally, after 40-60 minutes on the timeline cuts are located in the middle of the sentence instead of the end of sentence. Everything looks ok on colleague computer.

[ryclark]

Could you explain your workflow and what you sent to your colleague in a bit more detail please? Are you sending him both the .ses file that you made as well as the actual audio files used in that session? And what did you receive back from him after he had edited the audio?

[michaels37286825]

Hi,

I send sesx file and few wav files that are in the multitrack. Wav files are not edited by second person. She only cut those wav's on multitrack.

Then, if we both export multitrack to mp3 from the very same file we have different results in exported file.

What can cause that?

[emmrecs]

Can you explain a bit more, please?  Specifically, what do you mean when you say the second person "cut those files on multitrack"?

To me, if a file is "cut" it is changed = edited, so the session on your colleague's computer must be "different" to yours.

[michaels37286825]

I've sent to colleague multitrack which looks like that:

Received multitrack which looks like that (the same multitrack but some parts was cut out. No changes made in raw wav files.)

When colleague open edited .sesx file and export it to mp3 it looks good. When I open the very same file the cuts are misplaced in audio. When export it to mp3 cuts in different places than it should be.

After cut we work on the very same file and receive different results when export to mp3. 😕 I work on Mac, colleague on PC. Both on CC.

[ryclark]

Have you received the new edited .sesx from your colleague and opened that on your computer? Does that have the cuts in the correct place before you export to .mp3?

[michaels37286825]

This is the very same place of multitrack in my Audition and colleague:

My

Colleague

Cuts are in the same place but track looks like moved.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

As emmrecs says, any changes made at all by your colleague will result in a different end result. If you are saying that you meant 'put' instead of 'cut', and that not a single change was made, then you need to send all the files to an independent third party, and get them to look at the results - at least this way we'd get a bit more of a clue as to what might be happening...

[michaels37286825]

> To me, if a file is "cut" it is changed = edited, so the session on your colleague's computer must be "different" to yours.

We share the sesx file on dropbox, open the same file, export mp3 from the very same sesx file.... get different result in exported mp3 file. How is that possible?

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

michaels37286825  wrote

We share the sesx file on dropbox, open the same file, export mp3 from the very same sesx file.... get different result in exported mp3 file. How is that possible?

That's why I'd like you to share it with somebody else, and see if they get the same result. This way we'd be able to establish whether this is an exporting or importing issue. Because at the moment, we really don't have too much to go on...

[ryclark]

Looking at the two images the 'cuts' and crossfades are in exactly the same place relative to Audition's Timeline. That means that the .sesx file has correctly stored the details of the edited session. What is completely different though is the actual audio. The two audio files appear to be completely different in the two sessions and don't appear to bear any relationship one to the other. Is it possible to show images of the left hand side of the tracks where the audio begins so that we can see if they start off at the same place? Are you sure that you haven't opened the already cut and rendered audio file back into the session at your end rather than the original unedited version?