therealdobro wrote:

 

So, how do I do a destructive cut and keep the MT timing intact?

Can't answer that, because essentially you can't. I can ask you another question though - what exactly are you trying to achieve here? I bet there's another, easier, way of doing it...

Use the razorblade tool. It makes cuts across all selected tracks, and you can then group the bits you cut. After that you can move the grouped cuts anywhere you want, and also put fades, etc on them easily. With vertically grouped clips, grabbing the fade handles on one clip grabs them on all, so your fade is across the lot automatically.

I'll give this example from my workflow in Audition 3:

After doing a live recording, I might have 16 tracks in the session, 4-5 songs in length. I would save the session as some sort of default session referencing the original files. Next I would destructively trim each of those files down to the length of the 1 song I was working on, and save that file as a different file in an appropriately song named folder. After trimming each of the files down to 1 song length, and resaving those files in the specific song folder, I would save the session as the song name.

At the end of the process I could simply reopen the default session referencing the orignal intact (4-5 song tracks), and begin trimming/saving tracks for another song from the recording. All this time the tracks would stay in sync in relation to each other.

You might ask why I would do this since I could just drag the start/end time of each clip and let every song session from the live recording just reference the same 16 tracks. Truthfully, I just like having separate song folders, with all, and only it's media in the folder.

In Audition 6, destructively trimming a file pulls the remaining audio out of sync in relation to its orignal placement on the timeline.

I understand the logic of why this would happen, it's just a change from Audition 3 that has a negative impact on my workflow for live recordings.

_durin_ wrote:

 

It's true that Audition CS6 doesn't reconcile clip synch to destructive changes made to assets.  Though Audition 3 did its best to handle this, it's difficult to get this perfect. 

Well that's the thing, really - I realise that Audition 3 did this, but I've not implicitly trusted it - hence the other way of working that doesn't even invoke the need to edit before mixdown. This has worked out fine for me with CS6, because to all intents and purposes I haven't had to change any working methods at all!