• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Lost all my audio…any ideas?

  Posted by Scott Thibodeau on September 27, 2009 at 3:12 pm

  After a hiatus of a few months I went back to a project I have been working on. Nothing has changed but the sound in all of my clips in the timeline is gone. I can get it back by doing the following:

  1) Reveal in Project
  2) Place clip in source monitor
  3) Replace with Clip ==> From Source Monitor

  Kind of a long and arduous task though seeing as I have taken sound from different clips and placed it over the sound in the clips I am using. (ie. a clip of me driving might have the stereo on so I took the sound of the vehicle from another clip and overlayed it)

  I have since moved the files to a more stable drive but maintained the directory structure and drive name for the new drive. F:\Video\Edit is still the same thing. The only other difference would be that my cache files were removed as I installed a new OS on my main drive but again, before I did any of this the sound was still missing.

  Any ideas what might have caused this to happen? More importantly, is there an easier way to relink all of those sound files? They’re all still in the same place on the same clips and in the same directories.

  Thanks in advance.

  Scott

  Scott Thibodeau replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mike Velte

  September 28, 2009 at 10:31 am

  You probably lost your CFA (Conformed Audio) files.
  Premiere might be trying to re-conform them, but this might take a while. Open your project and note a progress bar in the lower right corner of the interface.
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  Scott Thibodeau

  September 28, 2009 at 11:37 pm

  Thanks for the reply. I tried this and the program was Generating Peak File but that didn’t seem to solve the problem. I did find some auto saved files and they seem to have the audio intact. I must have pooched something along the way. Human error, as always.

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