4 Replies Latest reply: Jan 6, 2009 4:38 AM by Ozpeter RSS

    Importing *.avi files created in Audition 1.5

    (DJ_Shotty) Community Member
      Any of you Adobe boffins taking notice here? Hope so, cos here's a job for you.

      Get any *.avi file you like, then load it into Audition (any version, doesn't matter, I've tried this with all of them)

      If you are, in fact, lucky enough to get Audition to open the file you've chosen, muck around as much as you want with the audio stream, then export the entire Multisession as an avi, with mp3 audio codec. What I've essentially done here is recreate the audio stream as a 192kbps 48000Hz 32bit mp3, and interleaved it back into the video.

      Next, try to get that to import into Soundbooth CS4, or Premiere CS4, or Adobe Media Encoder CS4. I've had nothing short of a pain in the *** to get it to work. It just keeps coming up with, "Unsupported audio rate in file".

      Now, remember what I've done. I created this file using Adobe Audition 1.5, and now your super duper mega-expensive piece of **** Soundbooth won't let me work with it, and the other video-editor/creator programs in this 'suite' won't work with the file either!

      I've been working with this type of software since the days of Syntrillium's Cool Edit - the program you used as the base for Audition. I've also been remixing music as a DJ for over 20 years, doing video editing for almost 15 years, plus I'm not exactly running a piece of **** machine here. I have all the latest codecs and Windows Updates installed. With that in mind, I will be offended at any such lack of respect, like the, "Have you tried, (Basic no0b-level ******** thing to do)" that you self-proclaimed 'tech-heads' usually reply with. This 'Creative Suite 4 Master Collection' of applications has just cost me $5000, so you can believe my disappointment that it doesn't work!

      System specs:

      Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 motherboard
      Intel E6850 Core2Duo CPU @ 3.2GHz
      4096MB Corsair Dominator PC2-8500 RAM
      Twin ASUS EAH2900XT VGA cards (in Crossfire)
      Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro sound card
      Twin Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA-II hard drives in RAID(0)
      Operating systems (dual-boot): Windows Xp Professional X64 SP2 / Vista Ultimate X64 SP1

      CS4 Suite installed on Xp X64 SP2, with all latest updates/codec packs, etc. fully installed and activated.
        • 1. Re: Importing *.avi files created in Audition 1.5
          Matt_Stegner Adobe Employee
          AVI is a very, um, "open" format, and heavily dependent on the OS (in your case Windows).
          Can you tell me what the exact audio and video codecs are being used (inside the AVI) to reproduce this problem? I was unable to reproduce this issue with Audition 1.5 and Soundbooth CS4, and Audition 3.0.1 and Soundbooth CS4.

          Also, you state that you "essentially done here is recreate the audio stream as a 192kbps 48000Hz 32bit mp3, and interleaved it back into the video". Are you sure that you are using MP3 as the audio format when saving back to AVI? Auditions MP3 exporter, when working with AVI, does not allow 48k sample rate nor does it allow 32 bit sample depth.
          The "uncompressed" exporter in Audition 2 does have these settings, is this what you are using for the audio stream?

          -Matt Stegner
          • 2. Re: Importing *.avi files created in Audition 1.5
            (DJ_Shotty) Community Member
            Now, make sure you read and understand
            i everything
            I've written in this reply.

            (quote)"AVI is a very, um, "open" format, and heavily dependent on the OS (in your case Windows). "(endquote)

            Tell me the truth. You're an American fresh-out-of-college no0b fuckwit, with no 'hands-on' experience at all. (actually,the 'hands-on' experience you
            i do
            have is limited to your hands on your dick! For you to send a reply such as the one you have to me, it shows you obviously haven't taken note of my system specs, nor my level of experience with both computers in general and audio/video encoding.
            If the correct codecs are installed, it then becomes heavily dependent on the
            i software
            and whether it has the capability to 'read' the file. Thing is, even after exporting an 'uncompressed' *.avi, Soundbooth CS4 keeps coming up with, "Unsupported audio rate in file." Remember, this is a 'fully-fledged' install, straight from the DVD discs in the package box, and fully registered with all the Soundbooth CS4-specific codecs it puts in post-registration.
            You ask what codecs were used in creating the file that Soundbooth won't open. NONE, you fucken idiot! Uncompressed means exactly that - NO FUCKEN CODEC COMPRESSION! This has happened
            i after
            processing the *.avi through VirtualDub, the most widely used
            i codec-independent
            program on the planet for uncompressing *avi's, irrespective of what codec has been used to
            i create
            the interleave.

            What part of my message, "I've also been remixing music as a DJ for over 20 years, doing video editing for almost 15 years, plus I'm not exactly running a piece of **** machine here. I have all the latest codecs and Windows Updates installed" didn't you understand? I actually
            i re-write
            my own versions of Windows, you fucken goose - that's from Windows '95 right up to Vista 64 Ultimate! Maybe you also didn't read the part of my message where I said, "I will be offended at any such lack of respect, like the, "Have you tried, (Basic no0b-level ******** thing to do)" that you self-proclaimed 'tech-heads' usually reply with"
            When I say the program doesn't work, I fucken mean it! I'm 40 years old, mate, and haven't got time to be treated like a dumb ****! I've just spend FIVE FUCKEN
            i GRAND
            on this software, based on what Adobe has told me about its' capabilities, and when it's not working due to you fuckwit tech-heads not getting it right for an operating system that's over SIX YEARS OLD now, you can expect blokes like me to go off their nut when you treat us like schoolkids!

            (quote)"Auditions MP3 exporter, when working with AVI, does not allow 48k sample rate nor does it allow 32 bit sample depth."(endquote)

            Well that's just fucken stupid, isn't it? When the program encodes and resamples audio at those bitrates, it won't export it? Honestly, grow a fucken brain and realise how dumb that statement actually is! There are a number of other audio/video editing programs that DO open, render and re-encode at these bitrates. Every other program I use for encoding *.avi's allows me open and work with the files that Soundbooth CS4
            i won't
            open on the same OS, namely NeroVision 4 (for DVD-authoring) and other encoding software such as Cucusoft and ConvertX-To-DVD. Even your own program, Audition 1.5, has no problem in splitting 'movie.avi' into audio and video streams - both of which are fully viewable in the multisession.

            Soundbooth CS4 is a ****-up, mate, plain and simple. Get a patch out that allows this piece of **** to open an ordinary everyday uncompressed *.avi file, or I want every cent of my money back!
            • 3. Re: Importing *.avi files created in Audition 1.5
              (DJ_Shotty) Community Member
              Now, make sure you read and understand
              i everything
              I've written in this reply.

              (quote)"AVI is a very, um, "open" format, and heavily dependent on the OS (in your case Windows). "(endquote)

              Tell me the truth. You're an American fresh-out-of-college no0b fuckwit, with no 'hands-on' experience at all. (actually,the 'hands-on' experience you
              i do
              have is limited to your hands on your dick! For you to send a reply such as the one you have to me, it shows you obviously haven't taken note of my system specs, nor my level of experience with both computers in general and audio/video encoding.
              If the correct codecs are installed, it then becomes heavily dependent on the
              i software
              and whether it has the capability to 'read' the file. Thing is, even after exporting an 'uncompressed' *.avi, Soundbooth CS4 keeps coming up with, "Unsupported audio rate in file." Remember, this is a 'fully-fledged' install, straight from the DVD discs in the package box, and fully registered with all the Soundbooth CS4-specific codecs it puts in post-registration.
              You ask what codecs were used in creating the file that Soundbooth won't open. NONE, you fucken idiot! Uncompressed means exactly that - NO FUCKEN CODEC COMPRESSION! This has happened
              i after
              processing the *.avi through VirtualDub, the most widely used
              i codec-independent
              program on the planet for uncompressing *avi's, irrespective of what codec has been used to
              i create
              the interleave.

              What part of my message, "I've also been remixing music as a DJ for over 20 years, doing video editing for almost 15 years, plus I'm not exactly running a piece of **** machine here. I have all the latest codecs and Windows Updates installed" didn't you understand? I actually
              i re-write
              my own versions of Windows, you fucken goose - that's from Windows '95 right up to Vista 64 Ultimate! Maybe you also didn't read the part of my message where I said, "I will be offended at any such lack of respect, like the, "Have you tried, (Basic no0b-level ******** thing to do)" that you self-proclaimed 'tech-heads' usually reply with"
              When I say the program doesn't work, I fucken mean it! I'm 40 years old, mate, and haven't got time to be treated like a dumb ****! I've just spend FIVE FUCKEN
              i GRAND
              on this software, based on what Adobe has told me about its' capabilities, and when it's not working due to you fuckwit tech-heads not getting it right for an operating system that's over SIX YEARS OLD now, you can expect blokes like me to go off their nut when you treat us like schoolkids!

              (quote)"Auditions MP3 exporter, when working with AVI, does not allow 48k sample rate nor does it allow 32 bit sample depth."(endquote)

              Well that's just fucken stupid, isn't it? When the program encodes and resamples audio at those bitrates, it won't export it? Honestly, grow a fucken brain and realise how dumb that statement actually is! There are a number of other audio/video editing programs that DO open, render and re-encode at these bitrates. Every other program I use for encoding *.avi's allows me open and work with the files that Soundbooth CS4
              i won't
              open on the same OS, namely NeroVision 4 (for DVD-authoring) and other encoding software such as Cucusoft and ConvertX-To-DVD. Even your own program, Audition 1.5, has no problem in splitting 'movie.avi' into audio and video streams - both of which are fully viewable in the multisession.

              Soundbooth CS4 is a ****-up, mate, plain and simple. Get a patch out that allows this piece of **** to open an ordinary everyday uncompressed *.avi file, or I want every cent of my money back!
              • 4. Re: Importing *.avi files created in Audition 1.5
                Ozpeter Community Member
                Unfortunately it's been necessary to set "DJ Shotty" read-only due to repeated infringement of forum rules.