Waveform Error (Solid Red in Sequence, no Audio)

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Brandon Adams] “(These sequences originated from a different PP project that I copied and then pasted into this project. It seems others have reported the same problem when copying sequences like that”

Looking around the internet has turned up many examples of this, and everyone seems to agree it’s a bug related to copy and pasting audio from one project to another.

Instead, try importing the original PP project into the current one, open the timeline where these files originally were, and then copy them to the new timeline (which is now a copy/paste inside the same project. See if that works.

[Brandon Adams]

Thanks John-Michael, I’ll give it a shot

-Brandon

[Rob Carr]

I may have found a way to fix your problem.

I have had this similar problem…because of some Premiere version mix up (i still do not quite understand it, and it only is an issue with this file) any time i want to edit this one particular project, i have to start a new project, and import the old sequence into the new project. Very frustrating. It would always work fine, but recently the audio waveform would appear red, and i wouldn’t be able to reconnect it to edit.

Anyways, just now I reconnected that audio by taking out the existing “Mark In” and “Mark out” paramaters that were set before. One i did this, the sound information came back.

I hope this helps. I almost had a heart attack there.

[Brandon Adams]

Thanks Rob. Did you remove the mark in and mark out for the sequence or for the individual clips?

-Brandon

[Ricardo Birnbaum]

Thanks, importing the Premiere Project via, File, Import, (premiere project where the clips were originally placed) worked for me.

[Rob Bellon]

I had the same problem. Found the fix in the Adobe forums: https://forums.adobe.com/message/4778837#4778837

Copied here:

I’ve found a solution for this, at least in my case. For some reason Premiere sometimes fails to assign the audio channels.

In a sequence with red “disconnected” audio, try this:
1) Select all of the affected audio
2) Right click and select “Audio Channels”
3) Make sure the “Source Channel” drop-downs are all assigned to either a right or left channel.

For some reason, these were all assigned to “none” each time this happened to me.

[Glenn Allyn]

Thanks, Rob Bellon! That solution totally worked!

[David Atkins]

Thanks Rob! That totally fixed my issue. I’ve been editing a project in CS6, and I had an assistant editor logging and syncing in cs5.5. Everything imported to cs6 correctly, but I was baffled by the red audio. I appreciate the help!

[Riaan Coetzee]

Thanks Rob this worked great for me as well.

[Tracie Bosket]

Rob! Excellent! I have had this problem (PP 6) may times before and always had to go back and start again from an earlier version. Your solution works great.
Thank you, thank you!