Render and replace audio destination

[leicaguy]

So here's my situation. I have been using Render and Replace on certain audio files because for whatever reason, the built in subtitle generator will not recognize these files and will not create subs for them. When I use Render and Replace on said files, I get my subs.  However, after passing off my external hard drive to another editor to finish up a couple things while I was on vacation, he informed me that those rendered files were saving to my computer and not the external drive where all the media and the project itself lives. Am trying to find a way to get the Render and Replace files to save on said external hard drive. When I looked at the Adobe manual on this topic, it seems to say that when you hit the "Render and Replace" button, a window should pop up and you can set the destination there. However, when I hit it, no such window appears. It only gives me a progress bar telling me it's working. I'm working on a Mac, and am using PP 2024.4.1 Can anyone help? 

One other thing, don't know if it matters, but the files I'm having trouble with are Multicam files. All my single cam footage is fine. 

Thanks in advance for any help.

[PaulMurphy]

Unfortunately, the Render and Replace command will only prompt you for a location when it's applied to video—audio will automatically save the rendered file next to the original media.

However, it seems like the bigger issue is that you’re having to render audio just to create captions for it. Can you describe how you're creating these multicamera source sequence files and how you're trying to create subtitles for them? Maybe we can find a better solution.

[Averdahl]

You can do that by going to File > Project Settings > Scratch Disks and change the path for Captured Audio to your external disk. When done, go to Edit > Preferences > Audio and change Render Edit in Audition files to from Next to original media files to Scratch disks location for captured audio. 

Now the audio files will land on your external disk when you do a Render and replace, even without using Audition. The files will be saved in a subfolder to that path. The subfolder has the same name as your current project.

I cannot test now, but if you open the project later without the external disk the scratch disk will reset back to the default path. That can be important to know if it is a project that you will continue to edit later.

 Am trying to find a way to get the Render and Replace files to save on said external hard drive.

By @leicaguy

[leicaguy]

Hey guys, thanks for the help. I was able to get the render and replace to save on my external hard drive. Thanks!

The subtitle issue is still there though, Paul.  Re: your questions, to created the multicam, I do it using audio waveform. Usually 3 or 4 clips for what I'm doing. I'm attaching a screenshot of the settings if that helps. Once I cut it into the timeline, everything works fine and I go to creat subs. This I do clicking on Text > Transcript > Transcribe. Once it's finished doing it's thing, I'm usually left with something like the other screenshot, saying Source has not been transcribed (again, only for the multicam stuff).  But there will also be a few one-word subs that appear but that don't really relate to the actual recorded audio at all. No idea what's going on with those (also shown in the screenshot). Again, once I select all those audio clips and use Render and Replace, then when I hit the Transcribe button again, those clips all get subs generated. If you have any ideas about why this is happening, would love to hear them. Thanks again for all your help!

[PaulMurphy]

For multi-camera source sequences, you need to transcribe the original audio files in the Project panel, not the multi-camera source sequence.

This way, you’ll get the transcription from the original audio, which is passed on to the multi-camera sequence.