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PaulVin
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May 12, 2023
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Want to use batch-process to export, WITHOUT applying processing to originating files.

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I'm using batch process to export from my wav originals, into mp3 files, with a favorite applied. I do NOT want to change anything in the multitrack I'm exporting FROM. I want to keep my multitrack file as-is... but in addition to creating mp3s with effects applied, Audition is replacing the wavs on my tracks with the newly created mp3s. Is there a way around this behavior?

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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May 12, 2023

How exactly are you doing this? Audition cannot have undecoded MP3 files in a session - they have to be decoded to wav files before you can do anything with them in Audition at all, so I'm not quite sure what you mean here.

 

Most of the issues people run into result from not looking carefully at the Export options (it's worth looking at the 'change' options, even if you don't change any of them), or from not specifying exactly what should happen to files in Batch Processing. Can you do screengrabs of the relevant settings?

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PaulVinAuthor
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May 13, 2023

Hi Steve, and thanks for your reply. I'll try to describe the situation more clearly, to make sure we're on the same page.

I'm starting with a multitrack file, with around 20 tracks (it's an audiobook - 1 track per chapter). Each track has one edited, but not mastered, wav file. Mastering occurs when I apply my Favorite to the file.

For final project submission, I need mastered mp3 files. My intent is to output the mp3s to a folder, and keep the mulitrack for backup, with the edited, unmastered wavs, just as they were before Exporting the mp3s.

What I tried to do was bring all wav files into the Batch Process window, assign my mastering Favorite, set the correct Export Settings, and Run the process. This produced mp3s in my desired folder, with mastering applied - which is what I wanted. However, it also replaced the wavs in the multitrack session with the newly created mp3s - not what I wanted.

My question is, is there a way to to export those mastered mp3s, in a batch, without changing the originating multitrack?

Does that make sense, or would screenshots still be useful?

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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May 14, 2023

Well, yes, you're right about my (mis)use of multitrack. For my purposes, I only need waveform... I just started off using multitrack as a kind of graphical file organizer, liked it, and stuck with it... off-label, for sure. I may revisit that process.

 

As for Batch-Process Exporting, I still find the way it works to be wonky. I ran tests, copying your export settings exactly, and using some other settings. After Export, in Waveform, the wav file closes, and the newly-exported MP3 opens. This could make sense, because after exporting, you'd want to inspect the new file... but still, why should conducting an export close the originating file? That's not the behavior when doing a simple File/Export command. In Multitrack, again, the wav closes and the MP3 opens, AND the MP3 replaces the wav as the file referenced in the track... this may work for some situations I'm not familiar with, but it's certainly undesireable for my off-label use case... 

Image1, before export

Image2, after export


You have to bear in mind that strictly, what you are doing shouldn't be possible, as the batch processor is intended to process files, not clips directly from Multitrack view - which, as I've explained, aren't files at all. You are almost certainly in uncharted territory...

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