.wav won’t play in Premiere CS4

[Vince Becquiot]

Will it play at regular speed in the source windows, or simply when scrubbing?

Have you tried dragging it below the master track, thus creating a new matching track?

If none of that worked, can you give more details, sample rate, bit rate, etc. ?

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Chuck Rosenecker]

ok . . .

The wave in the source window displays waveform, but the only audio comes from scrubbing the track. It won’t “play” at all.

The clip won’t drag at all. If you attempt to insert the clip using in/out marks, the sequence shifts media on the existing time-line, creating blank space where the wave should have been inserted.

Most of the video was shot on HDV and imported via FireWire using Premiere’s Capture Tool. Some video is SD imported SDI using the provided AJA QuickTime Codec within the capture tool.

The .wav is a standard 16 bit, stereo PCM . . . nothing that wouldn’t play on granny’s laptop at home.

We have imported it into SoundBooth, re-saved it as a .wav with the same end result. We have imported into an Avid Adreneline and exported a Quiktime with the same result. . . BUT, music ripped from CD has been working and audio captured with SD video (SDI) has come in clean. There have been no issues with the HDV media captured using FireWire.

We are relative novices to the Premiere System, and have had problems in the past matching preferences (Capture, Playback and Sequence) to generate a stable work-flow. I suspect we may be in this shadowed land again, as other edit systems in our plant recognize and play the track.

Hope this helps fill in the blanks.

Thanks again,

Chuck Rosenecker

[Vince Becquiot]

It’s possible that Soundbooth exported without any changes.

Try exporting as AIF from Soundbooth instead.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Jon Barrie]

I agree with Vince. If you can get the file to play in Soundbooth then export as Uncompressed AIF.

I have a feeling the original PCM is not truely Uncompressed and Premiere is having an issue with it. Are there other settings on the audio recorder you could experiment with and see if Premiere likes one of them so you don’t need to convert in the future. (not that is takes all that long).

– JB

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jonas Bendsen]

I’m experiencing a similar problem cutting a trailer.

I’ve got some .aif files that simply won’t play in a sequence (they scrub, and with ours they actually do play in the source pane. The weird part is, if I drag them to a different sequence, they work just fine.

I’m wondering if this might be the case with your scenario as well?

I would just create a new sequence, drag the audio files into that sequence, and be done with it, but the files won’t play in the current sequence or a newly created one. They only play in “already created” sequences.

Very strange.

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