I Deleted an Audio Track!

[Joe_Hicks]

I have inadvertantly deleted an audio track. Is there a way of salvaging this track from the "conformed audio file" in Premier?

[Sirius_Doggy]

I'm not sure that it's possible but hopefully you had auto-save turned on.... You may have just lost a bit up to the last auto-save?????

[Neil Rowe]

yeah.. if you havent close the program yet.. just hit undo.. cntrl z.. even if youve saved it since you deleted it it still retains the history from when you opened the project so you can undo things before your last save even. if you closed it .. you could always just grab the orignal clip and seperate the audio and slip it in and synch it up again.. its not too hard really.

[Sirius_Doggy]

iamloser - that would work easily if he just deleted one clips audio but it sounds like maybe he deleted an entire track that has a good bit of editing already done to it. Auto-save is your friend...

[Joe_Hicks]

I deleted a music track that is not associated with any video track-- it's background music. The track was deleted from the hard drive, not the timeline. I was curious to know if the conformed file could somehow replace my missing wma file??

[Sirius_Doggy]

ouch!.. I don't think so.
No chance of getting the music again?

[Joe_Hicks]

Yeah, I can get it. I was trying to save myself some hassle-- thanks though.

[Neil Rowe]

oh ...i thought you could undo a track delete or a track addition as well... ill try it tonight. PPRO pretty much lets you undo anything you want. you can even undo importing a file or deleting files from the file bin.

[Joe_Hicks]

oh ...i thought you could undo a track delete or a track addition as well... ill try it tonight. PPRO pretty much lets you undo anything you want. you can even undo importing a file or deleting files from the file bin.

Yeah, PPro is pretty good about that. But... this is a very different story. It's a file that was accidentally deleted from the hard drive. I no longer have immediate access to this music track, so I have to go and find it again (hopefully)-- wish me luck!

Given the size of the conformed audio files, I thought maybe all the audio data was there and through some miraculous way it could be converted back into the audio timeline with no worries. Oh well, live and learn.

[Neil Rowe]

yeah, if youve used the render and replace at all you should be able to go back and grab the original if you rendered any processing on the audio file and it was replaced with a new renderd file.. otherwise youd have to reload it. good luck. :)