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July 17, 2026
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Aduio waveforms disappear

  • July 17, 2026
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My audio wave forms always seem to disappear, when ever i close premiere pro and open it back up, wave forms gone, when I attach proxies, wave forms gone, I move the timeline or zoom in waveforms gone…….. I’ve tried clearing media cache, render and replacing, even reimporting the files but nothing…… how can this fuckass program that we pay a ridiculous subscription price for have so many fucking problems, don’t even get me started on the constant crashing for just trying to cut up footage sometimes….

 

I use a Macbook pro M4 for editing recordings from OBS which should be more than enough than what I need done in premiere pro for basic cutting and editing

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    Community Expert
    July 17, 2026

    Would you be able to share the detailed file information using MediaInfo?

    Audio recorded in OBS can sometimes cause issues in Premiere Pro depending on the export settings (particularly MKV and multichannel files), so it would help to know the format, sample rate, etc. of your files.

    Sankarasanjeevi
    Participant
    July 17, 2026

    Have you applied any audio effects? I had the same problem when I edit podcasts and then I always need to render audio to bring the waveform. Finally I found that I shouldn't apply effects inside multicam sequence and I then applied the effects to editing sequence itself and it solved the problem. May be remove the effects inside nested if you have them and try adding them in the main editing sequence. That might solve!

    Sankarasanjeevi
    Participating Frequently
    July 17, 2026

    I have not replied any effects no, this is just the cutting phase so no effects have been applied anywhere