Waves VST3 plugin issues

[legeeman]

Hi all,

I've just started to use two Waves VST3 plugins in my Premiere Pro workflow. However there are 2 issues that have come up:

1) Premiere Pro's auto voice transcription engine doesn't work if any Waves plugins have been applied - I get the "RawPCM (Exporter:17)" error.  The workaround is to transcribe and caption prior to applying the Waves plugins.

2) My usual workflow is to send the completed Premiere Pro file to Media Encoder, where I have some user-genenerated presets that optimize the video at various framerates, crops, and with/without capctions. Sending the above Premiere Pro file to Media Encoder and selecting an output preset that ignores captions doesn't work. In other words, Media Encoder is rendering the Premiere Pro captions regards of whatever I  in Media Encoder. The only workaround here is to manually turn off the Premiere Pro caption track in the sequence timeline.

Note that sending a Premiere Pro sequence (no Waves plugins) with captions, to Media Encoder set to output captions, works great.

I've tried using a different machine and OS, but I get the same result.

I've approached Waves for help. They say boths issues are Adobe issues because they can repeat the problem using other VST3 plugins, such as ones from FabFilter. Waves advise I raise the issue with Adobe. So here I am. 

The tech details:
MacBook Pro 64GB of memory, OS X 12.6.1, Premiere 23 and (now) 23.1
Mac Studio  64GB of memory, OS X 13.0.1, Premiere 22

I've got a couple of screenshot videos I've made to document the issue. While I'm not comfortable posting them to a public forum, I'm happy to send them to anyone upon request.

[Kevin-Monahan]

legeeman,

Can the devs get more info about system, media, and version of Premiere Pro? How do I write a bug report?

Thanks,
Kevin

[legeeman]

@Kevin-Monahan apologies - I'm new here 😉

Macbook Pro 16in late 2021
CPU/GPU: Apple Silicon M1
64GB unifies memory, 8TB internal storage (less than 30% currently in use)
1TB external SSD for scratch disk.

OS: OS X v12.6.1
Video input format: varies. Mostly MP4 1080p 25fps (default coming out of a Canon R6 camera). Sometimes 4K using CLog 3).

Audio input format: 48KHz 32-bit stereo AIFC format
Premiere Pro v23.1.0 (build 86)

Media Encoder v.23.1 (build 81)

[legeeman]

It may be worth mentioning that Waves support could reproduce the issue at their end, on their own machine.

I don't have many details, other than the following that I received from them:
Apple Silicon OS Ventura with Premier 22, both with Waves plugins and FabFilter plugins