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Audio Skipping…tried everything. HELP!
I’m having a truly bizarre audio problem.
I’m working on a project using Adobe Premiere 6.5 on a Mac G4. For half a day everything was working peachy. Then, after shutting the project down and later opening it again, I started having a problem.
When I play the timeline, there’s a strange audio glitch that happens within the first couple seconds of audio…it’s like it skips back a few frames and then keeps playing from there. The problem is, the video doesn’t have this glitch, which means now the sync is a couple frames off. The problem is worst when I use a separate audio file (like a music track), but still does it when it’s embedded audio that goes with the video clip.
This only affects playback within Premiere. If I export out to a QT file, it plays back perfectly. But needless to say, this makes editing further very difficult.
I’ve rendered out the audio, but it hasn’t helped. I’ve experimented with audio from a number of different sources, at different sample rates, and with all the project settings I can find, and nothing solves the problem. Neither does rebooting or working in another project.
I know this is an old version of Premiere, but I hope somebody knows how I can fix this, or I’m gonna be up a creek.
Thanks!
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6 Replies
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I’ve also seen projects, where, they were created than a ton of editing was done, than there would be some kind of project corruption when the project was reloaded. I’ve since tried to avoid binge editing.
-Try to load the old project into a new one?
-Try deleting all of your audio preview files?Perhaps the original audio files use a codec that isn’t entirely compatible with premiere.
-Try decompressing the audio (and possibly the video) prior to import.If you create a new project than import a PCM WAV audio file, does the error occur?
Vince
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I just tried creating a completely new Premiere project with generic DV settings, setting the project audio at 16bit 48k. I then used a 16bit 48k PCM wav file, a completely different piece of audio than anything I’ve used so far. I made copies of the file on my local hard drive and on my external media drive. I imported both files.
Both exhibited the error on playback in the timeline.
So the error now affects ALL of my Premiere projects, not just the one I’ve been struggling with.
The only other thing I can think of that happened between when the audio worked fine and when it stopped working (besides closing Premiere and re-opening it), is that I updated my Quicktime software.
Is it possible that upgrading to the latest Quicktime version had some impact?
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It’s certainly possible that there could be an issue updating QT beyond what your version of Premiere was designed for.
But.. I don’t have any facts on that.I’d hate to suggest reverting your QT to a previous version, but that might be worth checking.
Or, of course, updating Premiere could do the trick???If you do solve the issue, be sure to add the solution to this thread. Include the premiere and quicktime version combinations that work and the versions that caused the issue.
hope this helps 🙁
Vince
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In case anyone is reading this thread 10 years later, I am using CC 2018 and having this exact issue. So doesn’t look like the update did the trick.
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Well instead of necroing a 10 year old thread you could’ve done a new one with more recent information.
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So here’s some new information:
Converting the file to WAV (with AME) did nothing for me, but changing the file name (of the original MP3) and re-linking fixed it with no system or app restart necessary. Weird, but hopefully you’ll have the same luck.
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