Audio dropping out during playback in timeline

I may have found a solution ... for now.

I have been encountering the same issue for the last week on a new project where I have multiple video tracks above two audio tracks ... a music track beneath a voiceover track.

The timeline audio was disappearing every time I would ...

• add a new video or audio clip to the timeline, or
• edit an clip on the timeline - either from the timeline or the Audio Track Mixer .

The Audio Mixer meters were active while master timeline meter went blank. The Source Clip editing window audio played fineeven though the timeline auido was lost.

RESOLUTION: I added a "New / Sequence" from the File Menu - copying over all my assets to the new timeline. The Timeline Audio editing has remained stable with no lost audio. I had to rebuild my Audio Track Mixer Settings, but that's easy enough.

As a novice user, I will admit that when i opened Premiere I would simply jump right into the timeline that popped up with the launch interface - this new Sequence Setup seems to be working ... at least for now.

I am using Premiere Pro CC 2015.0.1 with the following hardware configuration ...

Model Name:    MacBook Pro

Model Identifier:    MacBookPro11,4

Processor Name:    Intel Core i7

Processor Speed:    2.2 GHz

Number of Processors:    1

Total Number of Cores:    4

L2 Cache (per Core):    256 KB

L3 Cache:    6 MB

Memory:    16 GB

I tried pretty much all of these solutions for Premiere CC 2015 and none of them seemed to work.

What seems to have worked for now was to go to Preferences > Playback > Audio Device and switch it from "Adobe Desktop Audio" to "Adobe DV."

I may have an unusual circumstance in this project because I have an imported 48000 Hz 32 bit float WAV and am using an external ASIO sound card.

Unfortunately the correct answer didn't work for me.  After going through all the settings and trying all kinds of options, I stumbled on the magic combination to fix this.

1. Go to Edit > Preferences > Memory - change setting for "Optimize rendering for:" to "Memory"

2. Go to Sequence > Sequence Settings - add checks to "Maximum Bit Depth" and "Maximum Render Quality"

So if I understand this correctly, you DO NOT want your sequence to render. You want a red line instead of a green above your footage and this audio drop out will stop.  Before you make this change, watch when the audio drop out occurs.  You open your project.  You see the red line above your footage.  The second it turns green you start having the audio drop out problem.

Hope this helps!

Hello Everyone,

I'm not an Adobe Premiere user, but I've stumbled on this thread after searching for a solution for my Macbook Pro (late 2013) audio drops during video playback.

I'd like to add an important fact about the described bug. This is not just happening with Adobe apps.

For a long time, I am seeing audio drops problems while streaming video using Plex to my Google TV. At first I thought this was a Wifi problem (since Apple acknowledged wifi problems fixed in the recent Yosemite updates), nevertheless, the problem still happens.

Today, this bugged me so much while watching a film, I connected my computer to the TV with an HDMI cable, in hope this will solve the problem. However, even with the cable, and using both Plex and VLC, the audio would still drop for a few seconds every once and awhile while video still kept playing.

In any case, I'm not sure what the cause of the problem is, but it seems it is not wifi related. Wish I knew more.

Any thoughts would be welcomed.

I think I found a solution to this problem (temporarily).  What I ended up doing is increasing the amount of RAM available for Premiere.  I have 8GB  of RAM on my 15'' Macbook, I increased the RAM to 6.5GB running for Premiere.  I just tried this and played my video 3 times without any audio drop.  This could be a temporary solution until an update.

Having this annoying problem also.  Using the Space Bar to play timeline it takes pressing and holding to a count of three or trying press play three time in a row using the space bar to get ungarbled audio, or any audio at all in a normal uncomplicated sequence on the timeline.

Really annoying.  Audio used to be so simple and untaxing to a sequence.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014.1 release

8.1.0(81) Build

OSX 10.8.4

40 GB RAM

G Raid G Speed Q w/ ESATA connection

1920x1080 29.97 Progressive Scan Sequence

48Khz

Apple PRoRes 422

12 channels of audio/ only 2 of 12 monitored.

1/2 resolution on Program monitor

ADOBE.....WISH THERE WAS A SOLUTION?

I've been having this issue on two separate iMacs (a 2011 i7 and a 2014 i7 Retina) with different versions of Premiere CC14 for a while now.

My suspicion is that it has to do with editing a timeline that has non i-frame codecs as it seems to happen more often in these cases.

My media is on an external Thunderbay Raid5, my local iMac hard drives are SSDs and the projects are local.

Would love a fix to this as it makes editing impossible.

Any updates since last post? I've been struggling with this issue for quite a while now (since CS6, now in CC 2014) and it's pretty annoying! Copy everything to my local drive (as suggested by PaulM-Aus) is not an option as I am working with a new MacPro which only has a 500 gig harddrive.

Same problem here. Since the update to CC 2014 I'm having this problem on various projects. Once it starts dropping out audio there is no saving it seems. Doing a system or program restart seems to help but only for a few minutes. I'm trying to get projects done for very important clients and I just CAN'T right now. It is unworkable and I hate it.

I have the problem too,wait for Adobe....