When importing video clips the generated waveform will display incorrectly, out of sync with the audio playback until zooming in by a significant degree (allowing only aprox. 6sec of the timeline to fit onscreen). The audio playback itself is entirely fine and plays as it should, the problem is only in the waveform display.
The problem happens most consistently when working with clips from NVIDIA's ShadowPlay screen recorder. I figured it might be caused by a problem with the way the software encodes the audio or as a result of it recording in variable framerate. However, even when completely re-encoding both the video and audio and forcing a constant framerate, the issue still persists.
I've searched google and this forum in particular extensively and have found similar problems, such as the waveform completely disappearing when zoomed out, but nothing like this. Regardless I tried all solutions given to fix the alternative issue I mentioned, but nothing seemed to work.
Below is the waveform displayed correctly, in sync with the audio playback.
Below is the same waveform with the timeline zoomed out by one tick, now being displayed incorrectly and out of sync with the audio playback.
This is on the most recent version of Premiere Pro 2020 (14.7.0 Build 23) but is a problem I have encountered for years now. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
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Same issue now. The project is first edited on mac and only appeared when transfered to a windows computer to keep editing... Creating a brand new sequence in the same project using the same audio files and the problem still occurs.
Seems like a very rare issue...
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I am experiencing this issue in 2024, version 24.3.0. Unlike Emil, I am not doing any transferring between OSes. I'm on Windows. Unlike OP, I've got a video with unprocessed audio (blue) and the processed audio (green). You can see that with one tick of zooming out, the processed audio waveform becomes completely desynced. Based on OP experiencing this for years, and this post being from 2020, and me being in 2024, maybe this is just a permanent feature of Adobe Premiere Pro? I hope not. I see another post suggests the audio needs to be .wav, but mine is.
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