Audition Crashes Upon Export: "Encountered A Fatal Error"

breadandwaterpro  wrote I have a session in which I recorded vocals and mixed an entire song, and when I attempt to export the song, I get an error message, and the program crashes.  I looked around and noticed that for some reason, the session was recorded in 32 bit floating format, I changed the sample rate in the waveform editor, but when I attempt to export the project again, it's not allowing me to choose any rate under 3s bit; I'm guessing that this is the problem - as other sessions aren't having this issue; I went to another session (that wasn't mixed), and the mixdown was successful. I also uninstalled and reinstalled Audition, and a still encountering this issue. Anyone have any idea as to what is casuing this, and how to prevent/an alternative to exporting the music? I also attempted to copy/paste the project into a separate session I opened inside the same project, and it crashed again.

I think that you are confusing a few things. The bit depth is 32-bit, and that's the rate at which Audition's engine performs internally. The Floating Point part of this we don't need to worry about here. The sample rate is the rate at which the sample bits appear. When you set up a session, you have to decide what sample rate it needs to be (generally either 44.1k or 48k if it's for video).

What on earth does 'it's not allowing me to choose any rate under 3s bit' mean? Do you mean 32-bit? If you export the session, then yes you can only do this at the session rate, but that's not the same as exporting a mixdown, where you have a lot more options, including altering the sample rate - although generally there would be no reason for doing this.

If you have a session that appears to be valid, and plays back fine, and it crashes when you try to export  it, then the first thing we'd need to see is exactly what that error message says - and if it really does crash the program, you need to do what it says here: Audition Crashed. Now what?