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Geronimosan
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June 18, 2013
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Edit in Audition is greyed out in PPro CC

  • June 18, 2013
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Have an audio clip in my PPro CC timeline. Right-clicking it shows "Edit Clip in Adobe Audition" as greyed out.  (Edit video clip in After Effects works fine)

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    Correct answer Kevin-Monahan

    Hi Nickolas,

    Thanks for your troubleshooting idea to merely reboot. I'll summarize the issue for others:

    If you can't "Edit in Audition" try these steps.

    • Reboot the computer
      • See if "Edit in Audition" is restored after rebooting the computer
    • Reestablish the link between the .sesx preset files and the application.
    • Uninstall and then reinstall Audition
      • See if "Edit in Audition" is restored after reinstalling the application

    Thank you,

    Kevin

    21 replies

    skytechbits
    skytechbits
    Participating Frequently
    August 3, 2024

    If the "edit with x program" is greyed out that means that the program is not opened up yet. Make sure to open Audition,  After Effects, etc., before you open Premiere Pro or you can test whether it works before simply opening the project you want to work on. I closed Premiere Pro and restarted it with Audition open and the "Edit with Adobe Audition" was available. It was not available aka greyed out when I opened Audition second after opening Premiere Pro which is why I found this stream.

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    Willy5FF0
    Inspiring
    May 31, 2022

    Here had the same issue on Windows 10, PPro 22.31.

     

    It worked just by updating PPro to 22.4, Media Encoder to 22.4 and Audition 22.4. So before people try anything to change or uninstall, check if it needs updates. 😉

    Vijay Gir
    Vijay Gir
    Participating Frequently
    March 29, 2022

    This problem still happen in 2022.
    I have premier and Audition both 2022.

    I went to find the Audition templates in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Adobe\Audition\22.0\Session Templates
    Double click on any file, it does not know where to open it, asks me to determine, however, Audition is not in the list so click on find an app on windows, locate the audition.exe file and select it.

    Reopen premier pro and the option"Edit clip in audition " is now active.

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    mariak38518758
    Participant
    April 8, 2021

    I have been using the latest version of all adobe products and Windows 10. Same issue faced - unable to edit clip in adobe audition as it was greyed out when I right clicked on the unlinked audio file in the editing panel. I was able to solve the issue by right clicking instead on the project panel - project file. Dor some reason the option to edit in Adobe audition was enabled there so that worked for me. Hope it helps. 

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      Sunny_focus16B7
      Participant
      March 4, 2020

      "Reestablish the link between the .sesx preset files and the application."

      Um how?

      I tried uninstalling audition (cs 5.5) but it wouldn't let me for some reason. Edit in audition got greyed out right after I installed the latest update for Premiere 2020. It worked in the prior version just fine. I tried your other suggestions with zero luck. I think I'm gonna stop using CC and go back to using CS5.5 because at least that version is reliable, and less buggy.

      nickolasc96235421
      nickolasc96235421
      Participating Frequently
      December 6, 2016

      I originally found this post after experiencing the same issue.  Still says not answered... However, in just a couple minutes into reading most of the original comments, a simple refresh fixed this issue for me. I had recently installed Audition right before attempting to use the "Edit in Adobe Audition" feature in Premiere. Once installed, I then tried to use that feature to find it grayed out. Nothing worked, but then after a restart, I can now right click the media, and see the "Edit in Adobe Audition" in the menu.  Not sure if some of you have tried to simply restart, but it may fix the issue. I'm on a Mac Pro (Late 2013) El Cap 10.11.6 - and using CC 2017 for both Audition and Premiere. Hope this helps. : )

      Kevin-Monahan
      Community Manager
      Kevin-MonahanCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
      Community Manager
      December 7, 2016

      Hi Nickolas,

      Thanks for your troubleshooting idea to merely reboot. I'll summarize the issue for others:

      If you can't "Edit in Audition" try these steps.

      • Reboot the computer
        • See if "Edit in Audition" is restored after rebooting the computer
      • Reestablish the link between the .sesx preset files and the application.
      • Uninstall and then reinstall Audition
        • See if "Edit in Audition" is restored after reinstalling the application

      Thank you,

      Kevin

      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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      DrRabid
      Participant
      December 8, 2016

      Premier should know that Audition is available because it's linked as an installed application in my Adobe Cloud, there is also no doubt hundreds of registry keys created by Adobe that could be used, but they pick the Windows file association. Why?

      Thanks to the community posts, I too was able to get it fixed without waiting for Adobe CC to redownload/reinstall Audition while I was in the middle of a job. In my case, the ".ses" file extension was not associated with any application.

      This problem only occurred for me after upgrading to Premier Pro CC 2017 and I noticed this problem dates back a few years.

        Rogimedia
        Rogimedia
        Participant
        November 21, 2016

        I Am having same issues having  an audio clip in my PPro CC timeline. Right-clicking it shows "Edit Clip in Adobe Audition" as greyed out.  (Edit video clip in After Effects works fine)

        HP destok 16gb Ram 4gbs Envidia Graphics Card

        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil Haugen
        Legend
        November 21, 2016

        First I would uninstall Audition, sign out of the Desktop CC app, reboot, sign back in (if it's not automatic), then re-download/install Audition.

        If that doesn't work, do the same with both PrPro/Audition.

        Neil

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
          Rogimedia
          Rogimedia
          Participant
          November 21, 2016

          Hello Neil

          Thanks very much for the help, actually i uninstall both of them and re do the process to see how its goes..!!!!

          it was very very helpful,

          Thanks a lot.

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          jasonk9580039
          Participant
          November 19, 2016

          Okay, Adobe. I just went through another round of updates and now I can't even transfer over audio that goes along with the videos I am editing. I now have to carry over the video to Audition and re-insert it into Premiere Pro. What the f*ck are you doing with these updates? I never had this problem with your updates before, but it seems this latest round has f*cked the programs over. Why am I paying $60/mo for problems? I don't need to pay money to get problems. I can find those for free elsewhere. I pay so I don't have this deal with this bulls*it. I expect you to fix this issue pronto or I'll just use my money for other things and find a free torrent.

            R Neil Haugen
            R Neil Haugen
            Legend
            November 19, 2016

            This isn't "Adobe" of course, but a user to user forum. With some assistance from Product Support staff ... who aren't on the PrPro engineering team. Just fyi.

            Issues like you're having are typically easy to fix and the most frequent fixer is to take a few minutes and uninstall/reinstall one or both programs. PrPro is probably just not seeing Audition after the update.

            Neil

            Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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            amazing_introvertB836
            Participating Frequently
            November 24, 2016

            Thank you Neil for making us feel bad now about our inability to manage software.
            First it is the role of Adobe to arrange that the installation works. — an app to app link through an update means Adobe people flunked it, not us poor users (I'm IT BTW so I can handle it).
            When the continuous update process dream of CC came-up I was reluctant to admit that this would be a painless process... and it is a  pain at each update. Driver issue, cached issues, temp file issue, rendering issue.
            As I said before I'm IT so I can start from scratch anytime I'd like but the real issue is for non tech people that are just doing their job with a product they pay for every month. I am on a dedicated machine with limited crap on it and with WS grade equipment. It still does not work properly unless you spend countless hours on Google and in temp folders trying to fix the mess.

            SO no, most complaints here are not user's fault. When is it user's fault to trust their software provider and click on Update.....

            I'm fed-up with Adobe stuff, updating gives you better software but the collateral damage in lost hours in production is just not acceptable anymore :-(

            Mod note: please don't use profanity. Our users are of all ages.

              behindthelines84
              behindthelines84
              Participant
              July 7, 2016

              I had the same problem. My SESX files were already associated, but for some reason the .SES re-naming and opening trick seemed to do it. Not sure why, I'm on 2015.3 at this point.

              blosscat
              blosscat
              Participant
              November 18, 2016

              I had the same problem ('Edit in Adobe Audition' is grayed out within Premiere). I'm on Windows 7.

              I reinstalled Audition and it fixed the problem. If reinstalling doesn't fix it, you might have a file association conflict.

              The instructions at the following link explain how to edit the Windows Registry, which might allow you to associate .sesx files with the Audition application (using Open with...):

              https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KqZyOPoVDsz3XQVeU6VWe4E6XFi-pOsUsLwxeoqzpbo/edit?usp=sharing

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                Xi Miao
                Participant
                November 19, 2016

                Thank you very much.

                Your information is very useful. I fixed it.

                My environment：

                Windows 10 64bit

                Adobe CC 2017 (Upgrade from Adobe CC 2015)

                RAM: 32 GB

                CPU: i7 4790

                Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970

                VitoFanelli
                VitoFanelli
                Participating Frequently
                March 16, 2016

                After I try everything with...

                • change file type app (.ses, .sesx)
                • deinstall Audition, cleaner toll, install back again
                • Use a new Windows Admin user
                • delete the 8/0 file in direction path
                • and many other not working solutions ways

                and all this was not working for me, so I deinstalled Premiere Pro CC, I want run the CC Cleaner but the tool dosn´t find any Premiere file, so I installed Premiere again and now it works. I can open the file from Premiere to audition, make changes and resend back to Premiere. I don´t know why it works now, but I´m happy.

                By the way, it dosn´t deinstalled all my plugins so I´m lucky it was not so much time to do that. Maybe it helps you, too.

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