TLDR: I would like Premiere to offer the option to refer to original audio files when selecting "Edit in Audition," instead of generating new audio files.

Right now, when I select "Edit in Audition" in Premiere Pro, Premiere will auto-generate audio files for each clip I have, adding in extra audio handles for each clip to give me a bit of room for when I edit.

This approach makes a lot of sense for a larger production, in which there are many takes, of which only a few make it into the cut that moves onto audio editing. It means the audio editor only has to have just enough audio for just the selected clips plus their handles.

But it's not as useful for a smaller production. In the videos I've been making for the past few years, in which I cut both picture and sound, I let the camera and audio recording device run, and cut out of that track. So when I export to Audition, I wind up with a bunch of redundant audio that's less useful to me.

I'd like to tell Premiere Pro to reference the original audio files when editing in Audition. If the audio is embedded in a video file, Premiere can extract it and send that to Audition. This will save me a lot of time in a couple of ways:

1) Right now, when I open something in Premiere, I have to do all destructive edits in Audition (like noise reduction) FIRST, then go back to Premiere, do the picture edit, and then go back to Audition to tidy up my edits.

If I can tell Premiere to reference original audio files, this means I can do all my work in Audition after the picture edit, which makes a zillion times more sense for me, and gives me flexibility to fix stuff when I want, instead of realizing something doesn't sound great late in the process and having to do a bunch of cumbersome relinking to get back to where I was.

2) It's so much easier to search for room tone when I'm working with original files. Right now, I have to import the original file back in. It's a pain point.

3) When working with audio recorded on an external device, this will be pretty significant savings on disk space, as Audition is using exactly the same audio that Premiere is, instead of rendering a bunch of files that are essentially duplicates that are just going to stay on the same hard drive.

This process shouldn't affect the option to export duplicated audio with handles, so larger productions should be unaffected. But vloggers and other folks who make video content for the internet could really use this extra flexibility.

Thanks!

A more coherent approach should be taken to source channels, timelines, and monitoring.

In short, there's no reason that audio tracks in Premiere Pro should have a "track type" assigned to them (mono, stereo, multi-channel).

Any clip (mono, stereo, multi-channel) should be able to be put in an audio track.

There are three issues which need to be addressed:
1 - How channels are assigned within each source clip (ie. is it a mono channel, 2 channels as a stereo pair, or multiple channels as a 5.1 set-up, or any combination of the above)
2 - The number of channels in the master track (ie, what the timeline has been set up as; this should either be stereo, 5.1, or multi-channel)
3 - How the timeline master track is linked to hardware channels for monitoring.

Tracks should play no part in this chain. The channel mixing capabilities on each clip should address the chain of signal from clip to master timeline channel.

I have two issues in my current project that I am noticing. I am working in Premiere Pro 2019.

First, I am trying to copy and paste a Multi-Band Compressor and DeReverb audio effect to multiple clips. When I right click, copy and paste the effects, the effect "pastes" but it resets, and does not retain the pre-applied settings. This is extremely frustrating and a huge time waster to have to check and manually fix.

Second, if I copy and paste with keyboard hotkeys, the pre-applied settings of the audio effects are retained, BUT the order in which the settings appear are now reversed. Annoying, but should be simple fix, right? When I go to drag and drop the audio effects to rearrange them, nothing happens. Nothing moves. If you did this with video effects, you can drag and drop the effects to re-arrange them but not with audio.

When running PremierePro2020 on a Mac, the computer speakers will make noise. This kind of noise is similar to the noise at the bottom of the current. It is not very sharp and needs to be heard in a quiet environment, or you can hear it by placing your ear near the computer's speaker. When you click the Finder icon in the Dock, the noise disappears. When you click the PremierePro icon again, the noise appears again when you switch back. My computer is a MacBookPro 16-inch and the system is macOS 10.15.2, 10.15.3. In addition, I also found that AE 2020 does not have this problem, but Au2020 also has this problem. I think this is a bug of PremierePro2020 and Audition2020.