I lose my audio when I do my editing with CS4 Pro Help!

Question

I still have audio as I can see the bars to the right of the timeline.  How can I retrieve the audio?

Answer 1

Good morning!
OK, let's step back a bit to your two Projects.
In Project 1, you have the Audio and it plays fine. You did a Copy/Paste of some of the Assets from Project 1, and added them to Project 2. Here the Audio does not play. Is that correct?
Many of us have encountered problems, when Audio is Copied/Pasted, even within one Project.
Now, assuming that the actual source files have not been moved around, the links to those should be fine in your Project file (the PRPROJ file), but migh have become "confused." Select one of the offending Audio Clips in the Project Panel, and hit the M key (Match), to see if this refreshes the link.
If that does not cure things, in the Timeline, select one of those Clips, and Rt-click, choosing Render/Replace. This creates a WAV file for that Clip's Audio, and Replaces the original with this. The color of the Audio portion will change in the Timeline. Test.
If that does not cure things, I'd Open Project 1, and test it for Audio. If all is good there, do a Save_As, giving this new Project a unique name. This will allow you to work on the "new" Project, but keep the original one untouched. Now, just delete the portions of Project 1, that will not be used in Project 2. This is done from the Timeline. When done, go to Project>Delete Unused, to eliminate the now "Unused" Assets from the Project Panel. Basically, cleaning up this intermediate Project. When done, you will have a new trimmed Project, with just the material that you will need. Now, hit Save (Ctrl+S). Exit and Open Project 2. Do the same Save_As, so you will now be working with a version of Project 2, keeping the original safe. Import your "trimmed" version of Project 1, into Project 2. In this intermediate version of Project 2, Delete the problem source footage. Open up Bin with the Imported Project in it. Here, to keep Copy/Paste out of the mix, I'd drag the Assets from the Project Panel (in the Bin(s) for the footage from Project 1A. This should work fine. Test.
Good luck, and please let us know how it goes. I tried to give you steps for a couple of methods, going from easiest to more advanced. I'd try them in that order, so you do not do more work, than is required to get your Audio into Project 2. Also, remember that I am working with PrPro 2.0, so there could be slight differences between it and CS3/CS4. The syntax should be similar enough that you can figure out the differences. If not, some CS3/CS4 user can step up and tell us both, "oh, that name has been changed. It's now _____."
Hunt
PS - there is still a variation on the last suggestion, but we'll not bring it out, unless everything so far fails.