Audacity - Adobe Premiere

Jon, thanks for the link to Super. It seems to cover everything, including the kitchen sink. :-)

I did try "converting" a crashing PE generated WAV file, from WAV to WAV, and the resulting new WAV file does not crash Audacity.

The only file I've found that crashes Audacity is the one created by PE.

The conversion also strips the file of all metadata, though I have no idea if that's important or not.

Bruce.

Bruce I dont know about metadata I use adobe audition I just know that always tells me the WAV from Pe needs to be downsampled as PE uses 48 by default

Jon,

I use Audition also, though have not done much with PE WAV files. When I am creating musical compositions, I always Export from the other programs as 48KHz 16-bit PCM and Audition has never balked. I do this because my end use will be DVD, so I'd just as soon keep the files in their final form.

I'll have to do an Export from PE and Import to Audition. Since I use PE so very little, I may just not have noticed a problem, but 48KHz files from many other sources work fine in Audition 2 & 3.

Let me go check...

[EDIT] Exported from PE and Imported into Audition. Everything fine. Checked File Info and it was 48KHz 16-bit, just as I had intended to Export/Import. Not sure why your copy of Audition wants to downsample PE Audio files. None of my versions do. The conform and generate a PEK file, and all is there and well. Odd?

Hunt

Bruce no It does'nt want to downsample for editng individual files just if you happen to be in multi edit and go to use a 44 and a 48 or 98 it will tell you to down sample the 48/98.I use 98 for editing sometimes .Thats what drew my attention toit in the past.It never baulks just informs you you to make a copy then gives you the samplerate box to ok. Going to cd with odd size sample files files it down samples itself

I have no idea about how these might work with the files you have, but apart from Adobe Audition I use these -

Wavosaur - www.wavosaur.com - freeware stereo editor. Very light on its feet but it can use VST effects to add to its inbuilt functions.

As with any destructive stereo editor, use it on a copy of your file, or be very sure to use "save as" and give a new filename, rather than over-writing your original.

Not freeware but remarkable value for money, and a tiny non-invasive install - Reaper, www.reaper.fm - multitrack 'digital audio workstation' - which can be used as a stereo editor because it has an optional 'ripple edit' mode (so if you delete something from the middle of a file, everything to the right moves left to fill the hole). It also has a video window and can open some video files so you can work on the associated audio. But it can't save the revised audio back to the video, you'd have to use Elements for that part.

Ozpeter,

Thanks for the suggestions for other Audio-editing tools.

Over the years, your many posts to the Audition forums have been very helpful to me. As I only use it for my Video production, there is always a lot, that I do not understand. Your articles and replies have helped me to use it better for my purposes, and have given me an education in general Audio, at the same time.

Hunt