Why is Export Audio of Selected Range Markers not available but greyed out?

[sBirch]

I have marked up a lot of audio ranges from a mp4 clip that I want to export as individual .wav files. But when I click any single range marker (or a selection of them) the option Export Audio of Selected Range Markers is greyed out.

I am running this as a Multitrack session, was that wrong of me?

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

It works fine here, in both Waveform and multitrack. What is the duration of the clips you want to export? These are definitely cue ranges, not just individual cues?

[sBirch]

Yeah, I very meticulously marked them up as ranges.

As you can see on the screenshot. I am working on an MPEG file that I imported via Premiere Pro. Does that have anything to do with it?

[sBirch]

I contacted support, and they showed me that I had to downmix to a .WAV session for the markers to work. 

[sBirch · Accepted solution]

The step to enabling Export Audio of Selected Range Markers from my multitrack session (Which just contained one audio track anyways) for the MP4 clip I was working with was

1) Click Multitrack | Mixdown Session to New File | Entire Session

2) Save a new copy of the session - which now has just one wav track with all range markers intact

3) Open the new session and lo and behold: Export Audio of Selected Range Markers are now enabled

[jerome di pietro]

It's madness that we're having to do that, but thanks for the workaround

[AV Simulation Phil]

I'm puzzled, I have the same problem as the OP,

however I'm only using wav files in my multitrack session, (narration for e-learning in chapters)

Ive even tried it with just a single track in the multitrack session (multiple files in sequence with effects rack on the track, crossfades)

still greyed out.

I guess I'll need to bounce it to a single file as stated, then export the ranges