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Anonymous
June 9, 2017
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Audio Slowed Down After Importing to Premiere Pro

  • June 9, 2017
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After I Import a video into Premiere Pro the audio is slower than normal. I was able to fix this by speeding it up to 900%, but I only have a few seconds of audio because most of it was cut off. So my question is, how can I stop the audio from getting slowed down?

      Correct answer Ben5E43

      I imported the audio to Audacity and then exported it as a .wav file and that worked for me. Honestly ridiculous that opensource software fixes this when I pay a subscription for Adobe!

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      Kevin-Monahan
      Community Manager
      Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      January 18, 2022

      Hi Community,

      Currently, the best solution for your variable frame rate footage is to convert it in Shutter Encoder or Handbrake. I prefer Shutter Encoder these days, but Handbrake will work if you don't mind .mp4 only exports. Shutter Encoder supports both .mp4 and pro editing codecs, like ProRes, so I prefer that.

       

      Be it .mp4 or ProRes: it depends what your needs are, what your system can work with best, and what you prefer for your workflow.

       

      The question is, "why can't Premiere Pro handle variable frame rates?" The short answer is that Shutter Encoder and others use FFMPEG open source encoders and decoders, while Adobe uses proprietary ones. I branched off those posts that had questions about that here.

       

      If you would like Adobe to use tech to handle the conversion of these formats better, here is one of the better feature request I found that you can upvote: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/34370416-handle-variable-frame-rate-footage

       

      If you have other problems related to variable frame rate issues with audio like the OP had, please feel free to create a brand new post. This post has been answered, is a legacy post, and has a feature request you can upvote so we will lock it to avoid any undue confusion as to the current status of this issue. Thanks!

      Regards,
      Kevin

      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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        ngbruno
        Participant
        January 18, 2022

        Rename the file extension to .AVI and will work! cheers

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          Ben5E43
          Participant
          January 18, 2022

          Interesting!

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          Anonymous
          August 25, 2021

          This is still a problem in 2021.

          Shivangi_Gupta
          Community Manager
          Shivangi_GuptaCommunity Manager
          Community Manager
          August 25, 2021

          Hi there,

          We'll get this checked. Does it happen with any specific file format? 

          Let us know.  

          Regards,

          Shivangi

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          Anonymous
          August 25, 2021

          .mov files with variable framrates from what I have noticed. 
          Hasn't happened often, still annoying though

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          gabriel5C4E
          Participant
          August 23, 2021

          without installing any software, convert online mp4 to mp3

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            Pasha Kianersi
            Participant
            June 28, 2021

            I had the same issue with importing a 70min clip from IGTV file with all Adobe products

            Only VLC could export audio correctly but as long as video duration 

            I tried Filmora 9 to export MP3 audio and it did for me only in 3min

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            jdevnani
            Participant
            March 17, 2021

            Hi all, 

             

            I too am having this issue with Tiktok videos in Premiere 2020, however not in Premiere 2019. It's very annoying, it's the only reason I keep both version installed, but I'd rather not! 

            hrbabb1216
            hrbabb1216
            Known Participant
            April 6, 2021

            None of these conversions in handbrake seem to be working.  Video plays fine but the audio sounds like Wild Bill from Silence of the Lambs.  

             

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              Mojca98C6
              Participant
              April 27, 2021

              Hi, I have tried every suggestion from this forum page and nothing worked for me eather. I too have a laptop with an older version of Premiere however nothing worked. In the end this is the only sollution I have found to work completely:

              1) open VLC player

              2) click "media" button and select "convert/save" from the dropdown menu

              3) choose the output audio format in the "convert" window

              4) export mp3 file

               

              This way I managed to extract audio files from all the video footage files that Premiere imported that sounded corrupted. I must say that this is really a disgrace that we are forced to lose hours and hours with this licensed product to find workarounds for something that shouldn't be a problem in the first place. If this keeps up I'm definitely cancelling my subscription because I cannot imagine editing another film feature with these kind of problems with a licensed software.

                royGvisuals
                royGvisuals
                Participating Frequently
                March 1, 2021

                Anytime I've ran into this issue I just convert the file to .mp4 using Handbrake. I'm not sure why this free program can handle it better than Adobe, but once it's converted you'll have a working source file to edit! Deff recommended! https://handbrake.fr/

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                  defaultdrrtohq350a0
                  Participant
                  March 8, 2021

                  Can confirm using Handbreak (free software) converting the tiktok/IGTV file to MP4 will go around the issue when importing to premier...  Thanks Roy!

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                  sophiem44736004
                  Participant
                  March 24, 2021

                  hey everyone - i am working on a project which is combined lots of different phone clips, i've got frame rates all over the shop from 23.99 (seemingly audio is fine), 24.03 (is slowed down), 29.42 seemed to be working, one at 30fps is fine, one at 30fps is slowed down - seems random. I have tried converting these in encoder and hand brake, into MP4, MP3, Wav, for some reason it's not fixing any of them at all. Is there something I could be doing? Would be unbelievably grateful if anyone could help me get to the bottom of this! Thanks 🙂

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                  Ben5E43Correct answer
                  Participant
                  November 25, 2020

                  I imported the audio to Audacity and then exported it as a .wav file and that worked for me. Honestly ridiculous that opensource software fixes this when I pay a subscription for Adobe!

                    LuMags
                    LuMags
                    Inspiring
                    August 11, 2020

                    Still an issue in 2020 (if Phineask12's post was in 2017??). Bung into Handbrake, fix the frame rate, import to prem, sorted. Prem as a paid-for industry class software really aught to have this as an in-built feature/service vs me using a freeware prior.

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                      Anonymous
                      July 31, 2020

                      It could be some encoding issue, try using FFMpeg to re-encode the audio file:

                      https://youtu.be/Yb8X8YuI0xk

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