Can't EXPORT! "Rendering Required Audio Files"

Guys I had this same issue and I did all and didnt worked but I figured out a way, but here is the best methods. may be no need to do all these steps but Ill say,

1. clean temp, remove preview files, delete cache
2. try making a new sequence and copy paste
3. check the audio properties by right clicking and propertise on the box there will be something like this (Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - Compressed - Stereo)  below that the Project Audio Format should be the same number. you can change it by going to sequence settings.

4. This is the importent step 3rd step only works if you do that for all the sequence on the project including the nested sequences too. so plesase makse sure to have the same nnumber in all. and that worked for me.

hope this will help someone!! 

None of these fixes work in 2025, it seems like the bug has evolved, very close to ending my relationship with Adobe, it just none stop problems

Match audio sample rate 

1] go to sequence -> sequence settings and check the sample rate [my was 44100 Hz]

2] go to export -> audio -> basic audio setting -> SampleRate -> match sample rate with that of sequence [my was 44100 Hz]

This fixed the issue for me .

I struggled with this issue and none of these fixes worked for me. What DID work however was deactivating some of the external plugins that I was using on my audio channels. It ended up being a compressor by Universal Audio which I used on a voiceover channel that caused the crash when rendering audio. Deactivating this plugin fixed it for me.

This problem is BRUTAL! Every single project I have done since switching from FCP to Premiere has had this issue. Sometimes I switch to 44.1 and that helps, sometimes not. Once I pasted into a new project and that helped, but only once out of about 12 projects.

I can't believe in 2025 with an M3 Pro Macbook and up to date software I am encountering this issue. I can't even export projects. I have to worry about bit rate and file type? Are you serious? I feel like it's the 90s here. I cannot continue to use this software at all. I will have to move to DaVinci unitl I can save up for FCP again. With FCP I haven't worried about this type of thing for years and I can just focus on editing.

A total digrace for Adobe. This software sucks. Period. I have tried everything and I still cannot export projects, so I will have to screen record what I have in the timeline for my last ever project editied with Premiere "Pro" or as it should be called Premiere "Amateur.

Hi, @Kevin-Monahan or the ones who watch this discussion from Adobe staff.

Seems like this problem cannot be resolved. As far as I understand there IS some audio transcoding once the export starts and the only problem that all Premiere Pro users have with it is Premiere Pro showning 0% progress during this process. Media encoder on the other hand shows this progress fine. So cannot Adobe just make the progress bar work as it should - i.e. show the actual progress of the audio rendering? 

I had a simple project yesterday. It was an hour long screencast in h264 recorded with NVidia overlay. So after I cut it in quite a lot of pieces I still had to wait for this audio files rendering to finish which showed 0% all the time. It had no effects, overlays, text layers, anything, just obe video clip with the sound:

I restarted the process several times thinking that my export just froze. In fact Premiere Pro was doing this audio rendering but in the background showing 0% till the process was over. Should the process have shown the actual progress, I'd have had no questions. So this 0% progress is the only thing that should be fixed. We - Premiere Pro users - can wait another 3-5 minutes if we actually see what is going on

Found an ACTUAL fix!  Make sure the refresh rate (i.e. 48000Hz) matches between your audio file(s) and your sequence settings.

Right click your audio and check the HZ (ex: 32000 hz). Then go to sequence -> sequence settings and make sure the sample rate matches.

Never thought I'd see this problem again... But, here it is in version 25.1:

It stays like this for 2-3 minutes in a short 1 minute project for the social. 

There's just these several mp3s and a voiceover done in Premiere pro, the yellowish one is a music track:

Haven't had a big project yet, so I'm within temptation of an hour wait...

It's a freshly installed Premiere Pro on a freshly installed Windows by the way.

Ran into this same problem this evening and tried everything in this thread. Including rendering audio, deleting media cache, copying into a new project, removing mp3s, changing audio hz. FINALLY found the issue: I had one tiny clip that had essential audio enhanced and even though it was muted in the final run, premiere couldn't render that clip for whatever reason. Removed essential audio fx and it worked. So double check ALL of the little audio clips and make sure none are stucking queueing something that will never happen.

SOLUTION: It's so simple. Select everything in the timeline (CTRL+A) and then press "Sequence->Render audio"
It'll take a bit to render only the audio files alone and then it's fixed!
Another fix that I recommend if this one doesn't work is that you should change the sequence settings so it matches the HZ of the audio files your working on. If the audio files are for example 3200HZ, you should change the audio HZ in sequence settings higher than that.