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Inspiring
April 19, 2015
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waveforms missing in audio tracks

  • April 19, 2015
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I have finished editing the audio in my project, and wanted to add some slow motion video from another project, so I imported that sequence and used cmd + r to play around with the speed of the video. However I want to fine tune the audio (an interview consisting of just speech, no music) and I was shown how to adjust the audio waveforms using keyframes (called audio ducking I believe). But when I was shown this technique they just dragged the bottom of the audio track down and the waveforms appeared in the track. This doesn't happen in mine, and I want to know have I accidentally changed some setting, or did I disable something?

I've searched online and found descriptions in old threads (for CS6 and before) that say there is a speaker icon in the audio track with a triangle that drops down the waveforms. But I can't see any of that in my timeline.

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Correct answer Richard M Knight

Is this menu item checked?

See also:

Display Audio Waveforms in Timeline, Premiere Pro CC

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Richard M KnightCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
April 19, 2015

Is this menu item checked?

See also:

Display Audio Waveforms in Timeline, Premiere Pro CC

Inspiring
April 19, 2015

That's what I was missing. I knew it was something simple that I must have unchecked by accident. Maybe there's a keyboard shortcut that I inadvertently used. Thank you Richard!

Known Participant
May 21, 2015

I have the "Show Audio Waveform" option enabled, and the "Automatic Peak File Generation" preference enabled. I can HEAR all my audio files, but the one on the bottom does not show a waveform. This happens a lot (usually to all audio files), and I have to wait for them to be regenerated. Sometimes regeneration starts within minutes...sometimes I can work on a project for a couple days before it gives me waveform previews.