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October 7, 2025

error during AAF

  • October 7, 2025
  • 13 replies
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Hey everyone,

ive been trying to export an embbeded AAF file to my sound designer, however whenever i run the export process i keep getting this error message:
"Cannot embed audio source "File path" because an error occurred when writing essence data. Premiere ASL error number: -2147286767."

 

so far ive tried:
1) Render and Replace all the audio on the timeline

2) transcode each channel seperately into WAV

3) remove transitions and effects or render with audio clip effects

4) exporting with complete files

5) change the bit and sample to 16\24 and 48\96KHz

6) checking the tape names box

7) copying the info to a new timeline

😎 compying the info into a completely new Premiere project

 

but nothing seems to be working.

the only thing the works is when i export the AAF with Seperated files instead of Embedded.

the sound designer really preferes to work on an embedded file, and i see no reason for it not to work, but so far cant fix it.

 

can anyone please help?

thanks in advance!

13 replies

Bust3rAuthor
Participant
October 7, 2025

i have not been able to identify a specific file that causes this. the timeline contains 21 audio channels overall and they take their info from the same source files - mostly.

whenever this error pops up, i recieve a message about 13 different files, and their names are essentially nonsensical, so i cant identify their source, for example:

"Cannot embed audio source "F:\Export\AAF Media\d7819d58-4f61-364a-da77-a1be00000083.wav" because an error occurred when writing essence data. Premiere ASL error number: -2147286767."

 

however, when i tried eliminating all channels except for one active, as suggested, it seems to be working (tried on 5 different channels). any particular meaning to this?

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 7, 2025

Hi @Bust3r - This is a known bug, and we’ve filed it with our team. We’ll keep you updated on its status. Apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience. 

 

As a workaround, under Files: instead of embed audio choose "Separate Audio"

bbb_999
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 7, 2025

Frustrating!

In your experimenting, have you been able to identify a specific audio file (or type of audio file) that provokes the behavior? I.e., if you remove every audio file except one, does the embedded export still fail?