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seanmcnally98
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January 24, 2023
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Display waveforms for audio clips while dragging

  • January 24, 2023
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Very simple idea, while dragging audio clips on the timeline, continually show the waveform rather than showing a blank box. This functionality is present in Audition, and is incredibly useful for manual synchronization. See attached gif for further explanation of what I mean by the "blank box".

I'm aware you can sort of already achieve this by "nudging" the audio clip, but it would be great if this were always available when dragging. Thanks!

33 replies

Participant
January 24, 2023
Having switched from VEGAS, I was very surprised by the lack of this simple and necessary function.
Participant
January 24, 2023
November 2021 reporting in, still no fix.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Came here to post this as well. This was a pretty big game changer in Avid when they introduced it a while back, and it's pretty standard in a lot of DAWs and other NLEs. I would love to have this function in Premiere!
Participant
January 24, 2023
Please fix this Adobe! This is mostly the only annoying thing about the software!
zero_2579
Participant
January 24, 2023
Just today I thought again: Why is this a thing? Every other editor can do this. - Even Audacity.
Participant
January 24, 2023
As someone who is really trying to transition to Premiere Pro from Vegas Pro, this here is a pretty basic function. Please, Adobe. Please tell us that you are working on this. We know that Audition is your designated audio editor, but this very simple function is in many other NLEs (including Vegas.) Premiere Pro is a powerful tool, it shocks me that this isn't standard.
sastian
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
Soooo we pay monthly for this and this was suggested in 2018, Is there any hope?
Participant
January 24, 2023
I'm here in September 2020 wondering why this still isn't a thing. As a software developer, I get that there's probably a good programatic reason for this, but the fact that I can move waveforms around in Audition without losing the visual gives some indication that Premiere should be able to do this, too. I think even iMovie can do this and that's... well, yeah.
KeulerB
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Even grabbing the Scroll Bar at the bottom of the sequence loses the display.
CC 2020 is a little better at it, but not by much. Two audio tracks are pretty good, but the grabbing of the clips still does not work. The more tracks you add, the slower the refresh rate. I'm currently working with 25 Standard tracks where all the audio clips are single clip/stereo.
This seems like a job for proper coding for the Graphics Card?
Another thing I don't understand is why the refresh rate is so slow even though waveform files are being generated and stored on your drive?
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
A short update, I don't know why it's not there yet? Maybe Avid has it patented ? but Resolve has it too.
It's also about the function that will revealing the waveform during trimming.
Vote, everyone, maybe they'll finally implement it after many years to Premiere ....(!)