Lingering “phantom” audio

[Don Smith]

I just had something similar happen.. I split a clip to cut out a few seconds and dressed up the timeline. I started hearing the phantom, as you call it. I expanded the clips and saw that the cut didn’t take out the audio and after the timeline tightened up, the extra audio sounded below the clip that came earlier. I forget the details but I could not make it go away simply by dragging back the extra audio. It seemed to be a bug in the system. I think if you expanded the clips surrounding the gap you’ll see the dangling audio.

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[Mark Morache]

Same thing happened.

Use the V tool to try to isolate the problem clip.

Once you find the clip with the phantom audio, select the clip in the timeline and opt-cmd-C to copy the properties, use a shift-f to find the clip in the bin, then replace the clip in the timeline with itself (the clip in the bin), then opt-cmd-v to paste the properties back onto the clip.

You may need to do some audio trimming if you created a split edit.

This was the simplest way I found to work-around this bug. And it is a bug.

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Mark Morache
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[David Eaks]

I’ve had this “Phantom Audio” as well. I ended up finding 1 frame of a clip, between two clips, but with its audio extending some 40 mins under the rest of the project. It was driving me crazy!

[Casey Hayward]

What do you mean by “V tool”?

[Casey Hayward]

Ok,

Thank you all for your help! I used the timeline index to track all instances of this short “phantom clip” I found an invisible one at the beginning of the timeline. I’m not sure why the audio was playing back in the middle of the timeline. I could not see or grab on to the clip so I deleted it in the index and this solved it. Thanks again.

[Bene Jourdier]

Hello,

We have a same problem. A phantom audio in timeline.
We can’t see the clip audio, it’s a big clip, hide on the principal scenario.
We don’t understand your advices. Can you gives more details, please.
We try but nothing happen !
We become crazy 😉

Thanks

[Joseph Mcdonald]

I had this issue as well. I found that the phantom audio was attached to a specific video clip by deactivating each clip in my storyline one at a time with “v”. When I found the right clip, deactivating it removed the phantom audio. When I “expanded audio/video” on this clip, which was 3 clips to the left from the phantom audio, the audio track showed up. somehow it had gotten slid over from the video and it was not visible because it was still attached to the original video clip yet not synched. See attached image (showing audio clip after expanding).