Adobe Audition Saved Multitrack (Change Bit Depth and Sample Rate)

[@StefanForslund]

I'm afraid this doesn't work for me at all since Audition changes the speed/duration of the tracks when I change from 44100 to 48000. Audition resamples the tracks but like I said also changes the speed/duration of the clips. Very strange and annoying. Anybody else experiencing this?

[@MikeRussell]

Hi Stefan, have you considered joining our community and popping your question in there? community.musicradiocreative.com/

[@jakport]

Holy cow, this is the neatest thing I learned today! This fixed Audition when it suddenly decided to change that setting! Thanks for a completely non-obvious tip!

[@MikeRussell]

Great news!

[@repomanband]

You always have great stuff that teaches me useful skills. I'm looking forward to using this in my podcast and music production.

[@MikeRussell]

Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad you find the content valuable for your podcast and music production journey.

[@MelissaSummersIsOnAir]

Ahhhhh I LOVE YOUUU...THANK YOU. Wow you saved me from an 88 Chapter Audiobook read edit...So thankful to God for you...

[@MikeRussell]

Thank you, that is so awesome to hear 😃

[@runningafever]

Pretty super-duper cool Mike, as always. Thanks for doing what you do!

[@MikeRussell]

Hey, thanks for the kind words! Really glad you're enjoying the content. 😊

[@AlejandroRamirez-sw2se]

This video just saved me an immense amount of time, thanks Mike Regards to Elizabeth

[@MikeRussell]

Thank you

[@DamrowFilms]

This was interesting but did not work for me. After saving a promo session inadvertently in 96000 Hz, my boss could not open on his machine by simply clicking on the session as usual. I tried your method, but when I played inside the session, clips did not match up. The session blocks were in the same places, but the clip selections did not match. Ultimately, the solution was to have my boss open up a new session in 96000 Hz, then copy and paste the clips from the original session over to his new one. Mind boggling. All this because I changed the Focusrite interface plug to a different usb on my mac after the computer went to sleep and the interface disconnected. Still, I will save your method in my back pocket. You never know. Seems pretty clever.

[@photony]

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you for making this!!

[@amymartin4618]

Thanks Mike! This is very helpful, but I hit a glitch. After changing the bit depth and sample rate, all my clips were altered to start and stop at the wrong places. Any tips on how to make this change without that happening?

[@tamm4557]

I'm having the same problem. I just changed the sample rate from 48000 to 44100 Hz using text edit. Did you (or anybody else) find a solution?

[@sersys1]

I can't believe something so essential has no graphical interface for it especially if it only takes rewriting a number in a simple text file and refreshing a session.

[@misterjaroslav6859]

Thank you! I lost myself looking for bit rate settings. In order to change bitrate in an older version of Adobe Audition, one needs to save the empty Project as an XML file. Change it and confirm bitrate after opening.

[@tabchee2]

Mike, I am pretty new to this audio editing, and your videos are super helpful, like this one. I have a question for you, as I am now stuck. I did all that you showed and tried to save the file with the new sample and bit rate. But the text editor would not let me save as a session file, and instead as a text file. What did I do wrong? It will be helpful to know what to do from here. Thank you!

[@MikeRussell]

You can always rename the file from .txt to .sesx once you've finished editing

[@tabchee2]

@@MikeRussell Thank you! I was able to get it to save as a sessions file finally. However, I encountered the same problem as most people who had commented on how on the tracks were messed up. It felt like I had to rebuild the tracks again. Did you all ever find out what may cause that? I could not find the discussion in your thread in the other webpage you had linked on to. Thank you again.

[@limerence8365]

Definitely make a copy. I tried this. It converted the sample rate but I still couldn't convert in that sample rate to export it. It also not only flat out deleted clips on my track but jumbled them up and ruined work I spent ages on. I can't go back an fix it without editing the whole thing again. Bit rate didn't even change at all.

[@MikeRussell]

That’s strange. It worked fine for me. Hope you can recover it.

[@limerence8365]

@@MikeRussell Thank you. I have a habit of things going wrong so I converted it before I tried this way so luckily I still had a saved copy. In the end I just made a new project, chose the proper sample rate and bit depth from the beginning, uploaded my previously converted file, let audition do the conversion, then exported that project no problem. I've always found working with adobe products, there will either be a problem somewhere, or you don't know what you're doing to figure out the problem the way the programmers imagined and you have to get very creative to solve your problem.

[@ভোমরা]

Thanks .Sir .

[@hertzaudial3071]

Thank you, this worked, i would still love to be a part of the Music Radio Creative team

[@MikeRussell]

I'm glad to hear that the tutorial helped!

[@brzbck1]

GAME CHANGER. Thank you!

[@RayOrtega]

Thanks again, Mike! I came back to watch this again;)

[@MikeRussell]

😃

[@mrjotz]

Incredibly helpful! Thanks!

[@MikeRussell]

👍

[@hilariopereira4564]

You rock! Thanks!!

[@MikeRussell]

Thank you

[@vismktg]

Great tip as usual! Thanks Mike

[@MikeRussell]

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[@jmcmurrah]

You are wonderful! Thank you for this!

[@MikeRussell]

Thanks

[@abbieamavi]

*this was so helpful, thank you!!*

[@MikeRussell]

You are very welcome!

[@vincetornero8665]

Props for this. Huge help.

[@pjchampoux]

Wow! Thanks for that, that's awesome!!

[@MikeRussell]

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[@MsDebbiedebby]

This didn’t work for me the metadata wouldn’t open

[@yan-nickmichaud1001]

Same

[@lynbia]

Hi Mike: so I was able to convert sample rate from 48 to 44, but now every clip is starting later. E.g., instead of a speaker saying "Hello, I'm XYZ," the clip now cuts to just saying "XYZ." Any tips on how to adjust?

[@MikeRussell]

That should not happen. How did you do the conversion?

[@lynbia]

​@@MikeRussell I dropped the sesx file into Sublime Text, and changed sampleRate="44100"> to sampleRate="48000”>. Saved as new file, and opened new file.

[@MikeRussell]

That shouldn't have happened as it only changes the sample rate. Did you keep the original file?

[@nicolespahich3780]

@@MikeRussell This exact thing happened to me today.

[@Neznany]

​@@MikeRussell It is happening - cutted track is getting messed

[@josephhpauls]

Thanks for this, really helpful.

[@MikeRussell]

👍

[@kaylonrushing4785]

You'd think a professional audio software would have this feature natively lol

[@NemouseJurado]

100%

[@motashaiye]

Thnx

[@MikeRussell]

You're welcome!

[@jxxnxn1565]

Thanks MI|KE, wonderful tutorial about a hack that helps a lot.

[@MikeRussell]

Thank you!

[@AnasAlsayedStudio]

Question: always when I safe or export file lower than the actual bit rate in my audio interface (ie, if my audio interface is set on 96khz and wanna safe the file on mp3 “48khz” , I’ve to reset audio interface setting again

[@SeleneASMR]

How did you get that window where you dragged the audio to to change bit?

[@MikeRussell]

Those are the standard explorer and text editing windows.

[@yassinalami3986]

Nice explication

[@Assthrill]

Спасибо большое!)))) Thank you so much!)))

[@MikeRussell]

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[@stephanblake_]

Asking for a friend, but I have 2 Blue Yeti microphones, one only records at 16 bit, the other at 24 only, is it safe/okay to set my Multi-track on Audition to 24 bit without having any issues? Thanks Mike! I'm the same guy who always comments too

[@MikeRussell]

Yes, it's safe to set your multitrack in Adobe Audition to 24-bit, even if one of your Blue Yeti microphones only records at 16-bit, as Audition will automatically up-sample the 16-bit audio to match the higher bit depth of the other microphone.

[@stephanblake_]

Amazing, I was worried but now I'm glad to hear that, thank you sir! Not all heroes wear capes!@@MikeRussell

[@timroche1947]

slow down mate. Where did you pull the screen out of at 1:18. Premiere Pro does Not have MRC at :50. Trying to change mini dv 12 bit to something that works? Audio is choppy. That's all.

[@MikeRussell]

Firstly, are you using the latest version of Premiere Pro?

[@timroche1947]

@@MikeRussell Yes

[@MikeRussell]

MRC is my Adobe Audition presets which you can get here mrc.fm/presets The screen pulled in is just an explorer window pulled from my second monitor.

[@migsdalusong]

thank you!

[@MikeRussell]

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[@dariopianista]

Good. But I need to change the sample rate for a .wav file, I dont wanna change all session

[@MikeRussell]

Under the edit menu in the waveform view you'll find an option to convert sample type 👍

[@DavidMathieson]

I'm trying to solve a problem and I can't find a solution, although it's possible I'm not searching with the correct question. I'm a video producer who's begun producing a podcast. Your tutorials have been extremely helpful in orienting me in Audition and audio in general as well. Thanks for that! I'm videoing the podcast recording with a single camera, 24fps, not using the on-camera audio except for reference. However, in most of the recordings (and all of the recent ones), I have a 1-3 frame audio drift. I'm trying to see what can be done to prevent this, rather than having to chop up the finished audio (edited and mastered out of Audition) in Premiere Pro and slide it the necessary frames. I'm hoping I can do something in Audition to help with this? Higher sample rates? Threats of corporal punishment? I hope you have something, because I don't want to have to find another mountain to climb looking for a different (audio) guru. Thanks in advance.

[@MikeRussell]

Thank you and great question. I'll have to look into this for Audition. I record in ScreenFlow and experience around a 3 frame drift. There is an Apple AU plugin I use that syncs samples. Very handy!

[@patrickbeggs3637]

Your a lord. Thank you

[@MikeRussell]

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[@simonritchie6341]

Will this process work with older versions of AA (3.0) in my case (yeah I know) have got sublime text but it just appears as many lines of numerical code (8 columns for each line) I presume (Well hoping) this can be translated into what we see in the video but having no luck so far! Any helps much appreciated!

[@MikeRussell]

Hi Simon, Adobe changed the way session files are saved when they moved to the CC releases. Adobe now uses .sesx files which hold much more data than the .ses files that they used to use. It's unlikely, given the developments in the software, that you'd be able to import a .sesx template file into Adobe Audition 3.0 I'm afraid.

[@Safeway_Sage]

So, here's a question, can Audition export at 320kbps?. It looks like the limit is 192kbps

[@MikeRussell]

Yes, 320 mp3 is possible!

[@darrenforster99]

I can't believe that a premium package like Adobe Audition can't actually do this from within the program itself. Audition is a good program but having to load up a text editor to change basic settings like sample rate and bit depth is a bit of a bad design - maybe Adobe should get round to fixing that!

[@MikeRussell]

You get the option to chose these when you first create a session from within Audition.

[@darrenforster99]

@@MikeRussell I don't seem to get that option - I just click "View->Multitrack Editor and it just automatically creates a new multitrack with default 44,100 stereo sound - I take it I'm creating multitracks wrongly then? It even defaults to 44,100 when I'm editing something that's a totally different setting.

[@MikeRussell]

44,100 is the default for audio. 48,000 is for video.

[@richardpwillan]

it just opens an image or file location for me when i drop into text edit?

[@MikeRussell]

Which OS are you using? This should just open the .sesx file which is just a text file created by Audition using their own extension to ensure it's associated with Audition when opening.

[@SiHorrocks]

omg typical Adobe overcomplicated nonsense, but thank you for showing how

[@MikeRussell]

I aim to unravel the complexities!

[@sanjaypant9329]

can you please tell me how you put your face over your videos

[@eRReVee_Dj]

Hi, Mike uses OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) LINK: obsproject.com/ which is completely free! Best Regards

[@W93h3753mwesley]

Green screen prop

[@MikeRussell]

Thanks! Yes, OBS Studio for live and ScreenFlow for recorded video mrc.fm/screenflow

[@MikeRussell]

That shouldn’t be happening. Maybe you could join our community and share some files so the community can have a look for you? community.musicradiocreative.com/