Inherited project: sound wav files are 48khz, clips and sequences are 41khz. Why? Problem?

[Ricky Barrow]

Someone probably made a sequence from the clips. By default the sequence settings take on the same parameters as the clips. You are change sequence settings at any time or you can dictate export settings when exporting sequences. Personally I would make the sequence settings the same as what I intend to deliver. PPro should re-sample all 44.1 to 48 on export, if exporting to 48 …BUT, I do not know if that will work on AAF to sound person.

As a quick check, simply duplicate the sequence and change the settings to 48 and see if there are any negative results.

Ricky

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks.

Do you know why the clips would be at 44.1 if the original audio is at 48? I just made a merged clip by selecting the picture and sound for one and right clicking > Merge Clip and it came out at 48 and I didn’t see any option to alter it.

Oh…. I’m guessing they had the sequence setting at 44.1 and Merged Clips from the timeline. I had to fix sync on a few shots and did it that way and just looked and see that they are at 44.1.

[Ricky Barrow]

Not sure what you mean by original audio. I made some assumptions by reading your post – I assumed someone shot “clips” (meaning video and audio) and that the audio on the “clips” were 44.1 —- I then assumed maybe it was a professional shoot or somewhere they added 48k wav files … either “extra” audio or recording at the same time and same content as the “clips and it was identical except it was 48.

At any rate, I made assumptions and would only be making more assumptions by trying to answer why. I would really need to know all about your assets and would even then probably need to make an assumption. Bottom line is that I don’t think you’ll have any trouble … you can always cross bridges when they come up. I think you’re in a good place and would carry on – sounds like you are doing well with minor glitches!

Ricky

[Nina Lucia]

Yes, picture was shot with an Alexa and sound was recorded by a production sound mixer at 48khz. So we have the camera files and wav files.

These were then synced/merged and the resulting clips now have 44.1khz listed in the Audio Info column, where as the individual wav files have 48khz in there.

So I’m now assuming that they made their sequence setting at 44.1 and synced/merged the clips using a timeline that was at 44.1.

Since it plays fine with no issues, I’m going to leave things as they are until we are picture locked and then try your suggestion of making a copy and changing the audio setting.

I appreciate your time and input!

[Greg Janza]

If you still have the option and time, all audio should be married with the video through creating multicam source sequences and not merged clips. Merged clips is a destructive function that really should be eliminated from Premiere.

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[Nina Lucia]

What is destructive about merged clips? From what I’ve read it doesn’t matter, and it seems that merged is what I’m used to from other editing software.
Source: https://blog.frame.io/2018/05/14/premiere-batch-syncing/

Does the multi-cam sequence method actually give you sequences? I hate copying from one seq to another, are those different? Can they be loaded into the source monitor and marked with ins and outs and can overwrite be used? (I’m an Avid editor who has also used FCP7 back in the day)

[Greg Janza]

Merged clips destroys the connection to the original audio media. Do a search on
Google. There’s a lot of info on why you should avoid using merged clips.

Multicam source sequences act the same as clips. It’s non-destructive and it’s the way to sync secondary audio

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