Audio Crackling Premiere Pro 2025.10

Hi! It doesn't look like anyone answered your question with a resolution that's worked and I've been having this problem for an embarrassingly long time. I have a Ryzen 5000 series chip, 128Gb DDR4 ram, 10 TB of SSD, and a 3070Ti. I had the same issue with the crackling audio with two USB interfaces, seemed not to be an issue when running through my Realtek headphone jack on my PC. Only premiere caused the issue and I tried EVERYTHING I could find, but I finally accidentally discovered what appears to have been actually causing my problem.

I had gone through and changed drivers, maxed out power settings, installed Windows 11 fresh on a new drive with a new install of Premiere, but nothing worked. Until I learned how awful the H.264/H.265 codec is for editing. I do 4-6 camera multi-cam shoots of my band and other bands near me, in 4-5k resolution and as soon as I messed with color, got a few cuts in, or did anything, it would get crackly, choppy audio and eventually start losing FPS and stutter. Now I've educated myself on Codecs and I'm transcoding my footage into Apple ProRes or Cineform 10 bit before messing with it. Proxies worked a little better when I tried them, but so far the transcoding seems to have fixed the audio issue. Certainly worth giving it a try!

Is there a mismatch in the sample rate between your sequence, your media clips, and your audio interface?

What happens if you increase the latency or buffer size under Preferences > Audio Hardware?

Also, do you have Attempt to force hardware to document sample rate enabled?

Hi there,

We're sorry to hear about this. For testing purposes, have you tried temporarily isolating USB Audio Interface Arturia Minifuse1 & checking whether playback is working properly on the system's default Audio I/O?

Thanks,

Sumeet