USB Mic Input Premiere Pro Mac

[Ivan Myles]

I’m not sure if it works the same way on a Mac, but in Windows you would select the mic as an input device using the Preferences > Audio Hardware > ASIO Settings.

[Chris Cea]

HI Greg, I’m not sure if you ever found an answer to your problem. If not, try the following.

PREMIERE PRO>PREFERENCES> AUDIO HARDWARE – Choose your Microphone from the ADOBE DESKTOP AUDIO drop down.

WINDOW> AUDIO TRACK MIXER – Click on the “R” button that correspond to the track you want to record on. (The “R” button is next to the “M” and “S” buttons)

Click on the menu drop down button at the top right of the Audio Track Mixer panel. You should see “METER INPUTS ONLY”. Make sure that is checked off. You should be all set up at this point.

Now to record your VO, click the red circle at the bottom of the “Audio Track Mixer” panel and then hit the space bar to begin recording.

Good Luck Greg
Chris

[Ted Burke jr]

I have the exact same issue as described above. the Premier Pro does not recognize my USB mic although FCP and Audition do. The solution suggested are not helpful because the USB mic does not appear in the drop down menu under Preferences>Audio hardware. This works easily and seamlessly in FCP. Must I go back and edit this project on FCP??!!

[Peter Garaway]

For Mac OS you need to setup the USB device as Aggreate Device. Try the following:

1. In the Audio Midi Setup application in Utilities, go to Audio > Open Aggregate Device Editor.

Check each of the following:
– Your USB microphone.
– An additional input device, for example, Line In.
– An output device

2. Select this new aggregate device within Premiere Pro’s Audio Hardware Preference panel.

Create a Mono track in sequence and record to that.

Hope this is helpful.

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Jon Barrie]

https://forums.adobe.com/message/5919277#5919277

Cheers JB

Jon Barrie
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[Matt Orfalea]

Nothing is working for me.

I’m using Mac OS 10.8.3
My H4n (recorder/ USB audio interface) is recognized by my computer and I have set it up as and as an “aggregate device” in the audio MIDI setup settings.
I cannot choose the input for a track and Premier doesn’t doesn’t recognize any levels.

Help appreciated.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Matt
https://www.youtube.com/orf
https://sites.google.com/site/mattorftv

[David Bauman]

I’m having this same issue. It’s completely ridiculous. I have two sound people who know what they’re doing, and none of us can figure out why neither FCP7 or Premiere Pro are such completely incompetent programs for live recording via a board with a usb to our computer. Ended up just recording to the H4 by itself, but can’t use my computer as a back up clearly. The internet has nearly no answers for this.

[Deann Engvall]

I had to respond to this because I had the same issue and you can just forget all that aggregate stuff. Choose your mic in the OS sound preferences open premiere add a new audio track and make sure it is mono (others are stereo by default) go to preferences and chose system default for hardware. Your mono track will say “ln 1” at the top in the mixer and you can write/record with no problem – found this on Adobe forum. See your microphone is mono. That was the problem all along. Built in microphone splits to stereo so stereo tracks were happy with it.

[Rob Mize]

DeAnn… that’s the ticket. Changing the input in the Mac System Preferences and creating a Mono track for the voice over recording. Thanks very much. Happy New Year !

Rob Mize

[Edmundo Munguia]

Hi! I am so sorry because it is 2017, and I just found that my new USB device “disappears” after selecting the MIDI Setup.
Either configuring this during a Premiere session or before opening the app, the thing just “goes away”