How to Import Markers into Adobe Audition
It’s pretty easy to export your markers out of Adobe Audition. But for some reason, I couldn’t find any information on how to import markers into Adobe Audition.
I have a list of markers that were manually created in a text file and I wanted to import them into Audition.
But no matter what file format I tried, Audition wasn’t able to import the file.
After some trial and error, I came up with a way to do this using Google Docs.
1. Create a Google Doc Spreadsheet
Create a blank spreadsheet with the following columns:
Make sure to format the ‘Start’ and ‘Duration Time’ columns as ‘Text’. Just highlight the columns and from the Google Doc menu choose Format > Number > Plain Text.
2. Enter Your Marker Information
Enter your marker information using the same format that Audition uses for exported files:
I just put ‘decimal’ and ‘Cue’ as the default values in the ‘Format’ and ‘Type’ columns respectively.
3. Export Your File
Export your Google Doc spreadsheet to a tab separated text file:
Select File > Download As > Tab Separated Values (.tsv)
IMPORTANT: Once downloaded, rename the file from a .tsv extension to a .csv extension. Otherwise, Adobe Audition will give you an error when you try to import the file.
4. Import Into Adobe Audition
In Adobe Audition, select File > Import > Markers from File and select the file you just renamed.
And voila! Here are the markers imported into Adobe Audition:
Hello, thank you for writing this! I have been looking for this solution every where and this simple guide worked very well.
With only one problem. My markers have imported into audition exactly as this guide suggested, I can see them in the “markers” section exactly as they are supposed to be, but for some reason they aren’t actually showing up on the wave form. Well, only the first one does. Have you encountered this?
Hello! Disregard my last comment. I see what my error was. I was using a cue sheet to fill out my spreadsheet and had one too many “:” instead of “.”, so audition was reading hours instead of minutes. Thanks again for this tutorial, I am going to check out your podcast as well.
Hey Luke — glad to hear you figured this out!
Thanks mate! I dont know why creating a csv from excel didnt work, but creating a tsv from google doc and then renaming it to csv would. You are an amazing life saver to have figured that out!!
You’re welcome Adrian. Thanks for the feedback!
Terrific. Tks The other thing I’m trying to do is save downloaded music files to CD using Audition. I need to print a track list with each CD. The audio is easy. Load a batch of files in one operation, select the lot in the Audition file list and transfer to a new CD track list, burn to CD.
But how do you print the track list. I can’t even copy or export it to a spreadsheet or as a text file. It is an XML file but I cannot see how to convert it easily to plain text without any html/xml tags.
If your tracks are stored as markers in Adobe Audition, you can select all the markers, right click on the selection and export the list to a CSV file.
Thank you so much! I would have never figured this out…
OMG . Thanks so much for this. Just spent 3 hrs trying to recreate a spreadsheet…
Thank you very much. This worked perfectly!
Via Excel (Windows):
1) Enter the data in Excel as show above
2) Autofit columns
3) Copy and paste the data into Notepad
4) Save as .csv
Wow, such a small detail. Thanks for this works perfectly. I wonder how the data is specified as text in the csv.