Sound suddenly slower, lower pitched in sequences

[Petros Kolyvas]

Hi there,

GarageBand may be the key.

It sounds, to me, like your system audio clock is playing back your audio at 44.1kHz.

Often GB and Logic Pro project defaults a 44.1 and the system may have changed the Core Audio samplerate. Do you use an external or 3rd party audio interface?

A simple option would be to reboot and then re-open your video project. Usually Core Audio will set its sample rate based on the application’s demands, but it is occasionally mistaken.

Let us know how it goes.

PK

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[Scott Reus]

Thx for your reply. Yeah, I thought something similar. I exported the GB file from QT Pro 7 (so much more functional than 10!) to a 48kHz song to test that but it still didn’t do it. Though, I finally did get it working again. I can’t recall the exact combination of things that resolved it, but, you’re right, some combination of restarting my machine and creating a new sequence, then copying and pasting the old sequence into the new sequence seemed to do the trick.

Thanks for your help! -s

[Monterrey Salazar]

It would be awesome if you could figure out what you did. I’ve created new sequences, new projects (at different sample rates), restarted premiere, rebooted computer and I’m still getting low-pitch audio playback. I’m going to try to render the project anyway (going to be hard to edit the audio with it all looooow) and maybe the .avi file will have normal audio, but my hopes are not high.

[Dan Shensmith]

Solved it (For me at least)

Assuming you’re doing as I was, i.e. recording audio in Garageband, bringing it into AdobePro for editing.

My problem was thus ;

my AP project had audio settings of 48000Hz
(found in sequence settings/audio)

However, GB was recording and therefore exporting in 44100Hz

Obviously, AP was therefore playing it back at a slower speed, hence lower pitch.

So it wasn’t technically a pitch issue, just a Hz speed issue… Changing this setting returned my audio to normal playback 🙂

[Sean Parker]

So… I know this thread is over a year old, but as it is currently the first Google result for “Premiere GarageBand glitch” I thought I’d throw in the solution that worked for me in case anyone else is stumped.

It all came down to Premiere and GarageBand being open simultaneously. My system didn’t like that. After quitting BOTH applications and then reopening only Premiere, the sound returned perfectly to normal again.

[Greg Spickard]

Damn I hate when the only threads google gives me for an issue are over a year old… oh well I’ll post here anyways in hopes someone has a solution. I’ve just imported a Premiere project from one machine (hardware failure caused it to die) to another machine, cross platform (PC to Mac) and I am hoping to finish this project soon but I ran into a serious hiccup… after Premiere updated my project to CS5, the version I am using on my second computer (an Apple Macbook Pro) I noticed that some of the video files (only the .avi ones, not the .mov ones) now play back with very slow audio.

By reading through this thread I’ve determined that the most likely culprit is some kind of Hz issue where it is playing the clips back at 44.1 rather than 48… how do I fix this? People on here keep talking about GarageBand, but I have never used that software and this is totally unrelated. I have tried rebooting and whatnot, but this wasn’t an issue on my old computer, so I’m not sure why it’s cropping up just now… Can someone point me towards the correct settings to adjust so my sound plays back at the correct speed?? I’d greatly appreciate it!

[David Intrator]

I’m in the same boat. Discovered the issue yesterday after creating a track in Logic Pro X (apparently same engine as Garageband) and then importing it into a PP CC project. I did one experiment in which I closed down both Logic and PP, then relaunched PP only. It seemed to work, but I have to do more testing today.

What makes this annoying is that I often go back and forth, making musical revisions as I prepare a final output. To have to constantly shut down Logic and PP will really slow down my workflow.

I too would like to understand how I can change these clock settings (if that’s is indeed the problem) without having to shut down my apps.

[Ken Ashe]

I am having the same issue. I just downloaded “mavericks” software for the OSX upgrade. And also have been playing around in Garage Band… not sure if it is related to either but it happened after doing both of these things.
The Sequence settings shows the audio to be 48k, and unchangeable anyway.
If anyone knows of a way to go back to my old software I can do that and see if that solves the issue.
Ken

[Amit Edelman]

to solve, use “edit clip in adobe audition”
there you interpret sample rate, and close the file (save it back to premiere)

that should fix it.

[Steven Flynn]

Not for nothing, but I have had the same thing happen in PP CC and it’d happen out of nowhere, but usually right after launch. I’m running a project in mxf and it takes the engine a while to “load” all the media. I’ve rebooted and that fixed the problem, but this time, while taking the time to read this thread, I just left PP sit, and when I went back it was playing fine. It’s like it’s playing a “proxy” or interpreted clip while it’s figuring out the rest. At least this time. Just FYI. Steve