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caml38685364
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March 30, 2019
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Chunks of audio replaced with 0dB noise

  • March 30, 2019
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This has been the most annoying error I have ever come across, it seems like no one else has this problem.

I record my audio with Adobe Audition and video with Nvidia ShadowPlay.

Inside audition, the audio waveform looks normal but at certain parts plays this 0dB thudding/screech it's not constant, but when exported it shows up as constant inside of Premiere, not for the whole clip, but for lets say 5 seconds, its like someone touching the end of an aux cord over and over, a kind of high pitch thud.

There is absolutely nothing that would indicate to why it happens at the certain parts that it does, it appears completely random.

Sometimes when trying to play the audio in Audition at those parts it will freeze and tell me a reading/writing error has occurred, all my drives have more than enough space so it's not a low space issue.

The weirdest part to me is that Audition/Premiere don't play those certain parts, but VLC media player can play a bit more.

Let's say i was counting from 1 to 10
Auditon/Premiere would cut out at 4
VLC would cut out at 6/7

This just seems like such a stupid error and it's given me a massive headache, any help would be appreciated greatly.

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Correct answer ryclark

I wouldn't know since I get an error "Can't read from the source file or disk" when I try copy the file somewhere else.


Well that sounds like the problem then I'm afraid. Somehow that external disk is corrupted so both Audition and VLC run into problems streaming the audio off it.

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ryclark
ryclark
Participating Frequently
March 30, 2019

On which drive is the faulty audio file stored? Is it on a local hard drive or some external storage? Are you on a Mac or a PC and with which operating system?

None of the audio waveform looks correct in your image. Is that just a bad bit or does it all look like that?

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    caml38685364Author
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    March 30, 2019

    Thank you for your reply, ryclark.

    An external drive, I'm on PC, Windows 10.

    I'm not sure what you mean by it doesn't look correct, that is after the audio is edited (hard limiter maybe why it looks sort of flat).

    The chunks where it is 0dB, just maxed out, are my problem, the rest plays fine.

    Although in Audition, the waveform looks completely normal, even when I get that 0dB noise, the audio within that red box plays the same 0dB noise.

    I'm going to try recording audio to an internal drive and video to external. This error only occurred as of switching to ShadowPlay for my video, I'm thinking that it's too much writing to the drive at once, but that still doesn't explain as to why the waveform looks normal, why VLC can play more then Premiere/Audition.

    I ran a chkdsk on both drives and there was 1 bad sector on the internal drive, but otherwise everything fine.

    ryclark
    ryclark
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    March 30, 2019

    If you copy the audio on the external drive onto your local one does it play OK from there?

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