proxy media and full resolution media must have matching audio channels

I should be able to easily attach camera generated proxies to the primary RAW source footage. However, because the camera writes 8 channels on the audio and 4 channels on the proxies, Premiere Pro rejects the attachment. I shouldn't have to re-transcode all my proxies so they match based on audio...

Most professional cameras create files with up to 8 channels of audio.

However, the H264 proxies only support 2 channels.

We need help Adobe! Please fix this.

Come on Adobe..fix this. I don't want to, but after some other Adobe-bugs I have encountered I am thinking of chancing back to fcp or other.

I spent literally days trying to make this work, tried every setting, and it doesn't.

Here's what might be ideal:
-have a function to create a video proxy that attaches to the original audio

That way audio stays the same, whether proxy toggled on or off.

Currently, all the channels are mixed to together in proxy and you have to pretend you're not playing bad audio.

PROXY AUDIO IS CURRENTLY USELESS.
would be great if you could change this.

SHAME ON YOU ADOBE.
Change it.
I beg you.

Difficult to understand why Adobe still ignore this ang how much votes need this idea for decison to implement!
- I believe not only SONY but also other brand camera manufactures allow to create proxy files during video shotting.
If proxy media and full resolution media must have mach audio chanels Premiere users must spend extra time for creating proxies. It's a shame!

A PARTIAL WORKAROUND for some situations...

I had this problem. The proxies were made on set and Premiere gave me the audio mismatch error. The shoot was MOS so I didn't care about sound anyway. The RAW files were recorded without any sound, but DIT made proxies with a stereo sound setting (which was actually blank on the file, but the file metadata shows it). Hence the mismatch error.

I'm on a MAC. I opened the proxies in Quicktime Pro (not version 10, rather old version 7 that allows editing of properties) and in menu chose WINDOW>SHOW MOVIE PROPERTIES (command+J). In the properties window I selected SOUND TRACK and clicked DELETE. I then saved the file and closed it.

Then in Premiere I control-clicked on the RAW file and chose ATTACH PROXIES. When asked, I selected the proxy I had removed the audio from and it attached properly. SUCCESS!

Of course I had 70 proxies and extracting the audio the audio from each one was a drag, but not nearly as much hassel as remaking the proxies from within Premiere.
I'm sure there is a macro that could be written to automate the process, but that was beyond my ability.

I guess if there was sound involved I might have been able to post sync the RAW / proxies with discreet wav files, assuming they were recorded on set. But for this job it wasn't an issue. I surely would not change the RAW to adapt to anything unless they were backed up.

Good luck!

I concur. I'm having to spend half a day re-transcoding because a DIT kicked out proxies from Resolve without any audio channels. This should be simplified. I'm not even using the audio at all.

I figured out if I delete the proxy files (720 in camera proxy 2 channel audio)in the cloud assets folder then open rush project in premiere files come up as offline then use link media to the full res(4k 4 channel audio) it works

The workflow I'm trying to achieve is mobile edit in premiere rush with the Pxw fs5ii in camera proxies then open project in premiere and replace proxies with full resolution. 

This would enable me to start editing in rush mobile on my way home from job, eliminating having to have computer with me having to load project into rush desktop and having to have computer generate proxies 

Has anyone figured out a solution to this premiere must be capable of doing it as when I use the 4k xavc l 4 channel files in premiere rush it creates 2 channel 1080 h264 proxies which I can edit on mobile or desktop rush and then when I open rush project in premiere it replaces the 2 channel audio proxies with the 4 audio channel xavc l files with no problem.