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  • random audio dropouts

    Posted by Dee Dobbs on September 1, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    I have a strange audio problem. When playing back clips in source window and on timeline the audio randomly drops out or just stops but the video keeps playing fine. It pops back after a couple of seconds but where it disappears varies each time you play the clip. On export the audio exports fine. The first couple of projects I worked on this problem didn’t appear. It’s more of an annoynace than anything but seems to be getting worse and is starting to be problematic listening to anything. On the timeline the audio is fine, the waveform shows no dropout or any breaks. Any help would be appreciated. Running Vista 64, using HDV Canon XHa1s, CS3, new Asus motherboard, lots of Ram and Drive space. Just seems like the aduio can’t keep up. Help!

    Steve Thomas replied 16 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Jake Williams

    September 3, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    Hi Dee,

    Are you running any other programs in the background? I had this problem before upgrading to CS4, try using a program called enditall to close all nonessential programs before starting premiere or reinstall the suit. That fixed the problem on one of the machines I was running CS3 on.

    Jake Williams

  • Dee Dobbs

    September 3, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    thanks for the response, no other programs running, could it be a ram issue, does premiere have a way you can allot it more memory?

  • Mark Wherley

    December 5, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    I’m having the same problems. Running CS3 with nothing in the background. Audio randomly drops out while playing back clips on the timeline.
    For me, I’ve noticed it has only been happening with a Sony EDCAM EX project (I’ve edited DVCPRO HD projects without this problem).
    I’m running a pretty beefy machine, plenty of system resources.

    I haven’t been able to find an answer to this problem anywhere on the web though?

  • Steve Thomas

    April 2, 2010 at 10:26 pm

    Mark
    Ive just been getting this effect using xdcam on cs3 even happening on 64bit system. Have you crack it yet?

  • Mark Wherley

    April 3, 2010 at 3:22 am

    The only solution that has worked for me is to restart Premiere.

  • Steve Thomas

    April 3, 2010 at 10:14 am

    Yep that works for a while. I thought it might be a fire wire thing, as my sound out is edirol fa101 fire wire, but it still gives the same problem with the onboard sound, which I disable when using edirol. One would expect the video to go first but that is rock steady, just sound cutting out every 5 secs or so. I have noticed that when thing start to go very bad the sound starts to distort as well, re boot time!

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