Topic: Any Adobe Audtion gurus? It won't let me time stretch!

[landshark]

'm trying to time stretch a clip, but Audition won't let me. I select the correct tool, I get the time stretch cursor (the one with the clock) and I stretch. Visually, it looks like the waveform is being stretched, but as soon as I let go of the mouse button, the waveform snaps back to its original. If I was trying to stretch longer, it just adds silence to the end of the clip. If I was trying to compress, it just truncates the clip based on where I released the mouse. I also noticed that when I right click the track in multitrack view, the third selection, "Clip Time Stretch Properties" is grayed out.

Any ideas welcome, this is driving me up the wall!

Mike

[SIRMick]

Using the edit window, if you look on the menu under "Effects" you will see time/pitch.  From there choose stretch.  Check "High precision" and "Resample"  Then you just need to decide on how much you want to stretch it

HTH

Mick

[landshark]

Thanks Mick -

I did try that (I've tried seemingly thousands of ways to timestretch).  The problem seems to be the file size - I'm working with about an hour of 24/96 (altho I downsampled to 24/48 to try that) and with that file size, Audition just doesn't want to allow timestretch.  If I add shorter clips in multi track view, I can timestretch those clips, just not the long ones.  Which, of course, does me no good since I'm trying to synch three stereo tracks of recording.  I tried turning off "undo" and maxing out the size of the temp space, but still no dice.

Mike

[SIRMick]

Mike,

The problem in your case is almost certainly that Adobe doesn't like to work with files that are over 2 gbs in size.  I think you are going to have to cut the file so that Adobe will do it. 

[phanophish]

Can you approach it from the other direction and slightly time compress all of the video?