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Audio Waveforms not showing in Multicam Clips

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
September 20, 2017
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Did a quick search here and did Render --> Audio but I still don't see waveforms. My multicam sequence settings are multichannel mono mapped to 7 channels...trying to insert interview clips in a non-multicam standard timeline. Not sure if I have to change my audio settings on my timeline but would like to see all waveforms...I see waveforms when I drop clip as un-nested but would rather match frame back to the synced audio rather than the source audio.

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Scott.C.

Inspiring

Premiere is long overdue for an audio overhaul. Issues like this shouldn't exist in 2023 editions of Premiere. Waveforms should JUST WORK.

tomjstern

Inspiring

Agreed!

tomjstern

Inspiring

The answer is - select the multicam clip that is not showing wave forms and go to Sequence Menu and select RENDER AUDIO. That works - although I had to learn it from Youtube as the Adobe tech support guy was telling me it wasn't possible to see waveforms in a nested sequence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqd4khWDma4

glauxtheowl

Participating Frequently

I think strictly speaking the tech guy might have been correct. In nested sequences, the audio track takes its waveform properties from the original clip, so if you want to edit the waveform, in theory you should go back to the original clip that shows the waveform and do your sound editing there. In reality that's not what most people want, as you often need to perform some additional sound editing in a nested sequence, after the clips have been spliced, cut and rearranged, so we still need the waveform to be visible. That's why the "Render" option is there, but it's worth keeping in mind that once you "Render" you effectively separate the nested sequence's sound clip from its original source, meaning if you later make any global changes to the source audio (say, change the volume) the change won't be reflected in your nested sequence, so you'll need to go into each and every individual rendered clip to make those changes (though of course there are ways of applying properties to multiple clips). So the Render solution needs to be used carefully and with full knowledge of what it entails, as it's not reversible once the project is saved.

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dank63415899

New Participant

In case anyone was still having issues with this. None of the suggestions worked for me but I found one that does. Selecting the audio clips, not the video part, right click and choose render and replace. BAM! Audio waveforms!

glauxtheowl

Participating Frequently

Yes, that solution works, thank you! It might be worth adding that in order to select the audio clip without the video part, you first need to "Unlink" the video and audio, if they are linked: right-click on the clip and do Unlink. Now "Render and replace" becomes available.

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FixMySync

New Participant

You can also just control + click, to only click the things you want, without needing to unlink them first.

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hollyd32157357

New Participant

The enabling worked for me but only turned on 1 out of 4 audio tracks in my multicam. I just flattened all the audio (in the same way you can enable) and it brought the original audio with all of the waveforms. I prefer this...

ángell9459219

New Participant

I fixed this problem deleting all audio peak and media cache files in the folowwing folders:

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Peak Files

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache Files

So when you start Premiere again, audio peak and media cache files will be created again and waveforms will shows in the multicamera track.

jennala22

Known Participant

replied to the wrong post. oops!

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Baron VonVahstorik

Participating Frequently

I'm working on a project and had a few multicam clips I had created. A few had the waveform as I wanted and some didn't. I did just get a few of this to start turning online though.

In the clips that weren't showing waveform, I had a few empty audio and video tracks and had left the camera audio in the clip, just unenabled. I deleted the turned off audio clips and pull everything to as close as A/V1 as I could and then deleted all empty tracks. So far, that has fixed every clip I've tried it on.

weso21647622

New Participant

I got something to work! Right click on the multi-cam clip in your timeline, under "Multi-Camera" slide over and un-check "Enable." Then right click on the same clip again and check "Enable" again. Waveforms popped right up for me.

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Micaiah D

New Participant

After trying tons of other methods, I found yours and it worked! Thanks so much!

Kcirevam Eht

Participating Frequently

The manual method outlined above still doesn't show the waveforms for all audio tracks nor am I sure that I'm hearing them all since only the first two tracks appear to play audio out of the eight which should exist in the multicam clip.

There must be a better way to do this in Premiere? How do people edit with multicam clips with more than two tracks?

Thanks.

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excited_Genie16B8

Brainiac

When you get to Step 4, select only the Video to Enable. Leave the Audio track not Enabled.

arodon7Author

Participating Frequently

Thanks, that helped generate audio waveforms but also mixed down all my audio tracks into one...don't really want that.

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excited_Genie16B8

Brainiac

The audio from both methods is nested. The only difference here is that you can now hear all the audio from the Source Sequence, rather than just A1. You can mix in that Source Sequence and it will pass through to the nest.

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