Mixdown to 5.1 .mov produces gap

I mixed a session from Audition CS6 and the resulting 5.1 .mov file has a gap in it that is nearly a half second long. The source files for the mix are fine at the same place and there are no effects or key frames in use at the point where the problem occurs. This is a long project that runs over 2hrs and 4 mins. if that matters. Has anyone else experienced this? You may wonder why I chose .mov for the mixdown. It's because .wav will not import into Premiere CS6! It would be nice if Adobe's products would work with files created by their other products. In this case Premiere gets an import failure error and says there is a header error.
Terry

Same Problem here and it even get worse!
-> Task: Import a feature 5.1 Audio mix from Audition CS6 into Premiere CS6 (resulting audio file is > 4GB)
-> Result:
1. Export the feature 5.1 mix as 48KHz 24Bit 5.1 RF64 Broadcast WAV --> File is valid but Premeiere can't import RF64 Broadcast WAV (Error on import: unknown header)
2. Export the feature 5.1 mix as 48KHz 24Bit PCM MOV --> Every Audition export >4GB results in a corrupted MOV file with audio glitches at the same position.
RF64 Broadcast WAV & PCM MOV are the only file Formats supporting larger than 4GB audio.
The attempt to import a mixdown Audition XML into Premiere failed because Audition creates RF64 Broadcast WAV that Premiere doesn't read.
-> My Config: Win7 X64, CS6 (all current Updates), Corei7, 12GB Ram
-> Task: Export WAV uncompressed 5.1 48KHz 24Bit from a 5.1 Adobe Premiere sequence
-> Result: "Error compiling Movie: Unknown Error"
That has worked in the past with CS5.5
--> If I export as 16bit from Premiere it will work but that doesn't help because I need at least a 24bit export...
Whats going on there??

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user8821725 wrote:
I seek some advice from anyone with first hand experience in this area.
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Please don't listen to anyone. Get yourself a defragmenting folder, and email Apple to tell them it's just not good enough to give their customers half assed answers and inadequate basic maintainence tools. Mac OS X must literally be the only operating system out there where something as basic as defragmenting is not only almost impossible to get answers on, but actually costs money to fix once you DO get answers.
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But sometimes even the best developers can royally f*ck up. This is one of them.
There is no readon people should be forced to put up with this crap. Absolutely no reason at all. I've had 3 months of crappy performance with no official explanation whatsoever.
Apple if you're reading this: I love your products. I'm a loyal customer. People are more forgiving than you think, speak up, admit you dropped the ball, and DO something about it in your next updates to Lion and whichever versions of Leopard you are still actively maintaining.
There's no shame in admitting when you're wrong. The shame is in hiding behind false promises and walls of silence.
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