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NateX Official
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January 16, 2020
Question

Bad Audio Quality after Exporting in Premiere Pro

  • January 16, 2020
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Hey! I am a newbie to Premiere Pro, so I am not very familiar with the program yet. 

Everytime I export my project, the audio quality is really bad and compressed, and I can't seem to figure out how to get it right. I have watched a lot of videos and browsed this forum as well, but still nothing. 

 

Anyone got a fix to this?

 

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    giuseppe@crs
    Participant
    July 28, 2023

    I am having the same issue. Audio sounds fine in timeline but when I export my .mp4 with this sound settings (AAC, 48KHz,  512kbps) it sounds awful. This is a bug and it's unacceptbale.

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      Michael Grenadier
      Legend
      July 28, 2023

      Never easy to figure out what's going wrong from a distance so please answer the question and try the suggestions in a systematic fashion and let us know if anything works.  These are just the first steps.  Other things to try down the road.  Most people are not experiencing this, so this can be fixed.

      Please tell us your system specs: OS version, Premiere version, amount of RAM, Hardware specs including graphics card and your source properties and sequence settings. 

      Sometimes sending to Adobe Media Encoder rather than doing a direct export from Premiere will work...

      Try exporting as a high quality file using something like prores 422...  If that works without issue, then try transcoding that file to your desired target format.  

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      Xavi Simben
      Participant
      September 15, 2023

      Same exact thing happened to me. Everything was working fine until it suddently didn't. This is what I found out (just my specific situation): This only happens with footage that came from my iPhone, the one recorded with my GoPro seems to work fine. Besides, it happens when I apply some effects in the Audio Track Mixer to get a better quality of my voice and everything, but if I just apply a simple and single DeNoise, the audio seems to export just as it is on the timeline... Weird stuff...

      Richard van den Boogaard
      Community Expert
      Richard van den BoogaardCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 17, 2020

      Why is sample rate selected in your Export settings? Is that an Adobe default? Have you adjusted/multiplied the levels in PPro? Are the levels in the audio meter not going in the red? If so, please adjust them in the audio track mixer so they don't go beyond 0 dB (which is clipping).

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      NateX OfficialAuthor
      Participant
      January 17, 2020

      This video has to be uploaded to Instagram, so I have to export it as 128 kbps otherwise it will sound bad on Instagram.
      The meter is peaking at -3 dB.

        Lolly101
        Lolly101
        Participant
        March 6, 2021

        It's not you. It's Adobe. 

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        NateX OfficialAuthor
        Participant
        January 17, 2020

        Hey, I tried this, and the audio quality is still bad after exporting. 

          Richard van den Boogaard
          Community Expert
          Richard van den BoogaardCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          January 16, 2020

          For best results with any NLE, it's best practice to start off with the heighest possible quality sources you can use, provided your system is able to handle them.

           

          Is the audio source OK upon import? Consider using Adobe Audition to transcode the audio files to 16-bit wav 48kHz first. That way, you ensure that the audio will only degrade further as a result of the encoding process.

           

          Hope this helps.

          Kartika Rawat
          Community Manager
          Kartika RawatCommunity Manager
          Community Manager
          January 16, 2020

          Hi there!

          We appreciate you writing in. I see that you're getting incorrect quality after exporting from Premiere Pro.

          Looking forward to your response.

          Thanks,

          Kartika

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          NateX OfficialAuthor
          Participant
          January 16, 2020

          I am using Premiere Pro CC.

          My Laptop Specs are:

          Intel Core i7-9750H

          16 GB RAM

          Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060

          1000 GB of SSD

           

          I am working with 128 kbps mp3 files (the video will be posted on instagram) and mp4 files. The resolution of my video is 1080x1080

           

          My Export Settings

           

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          Michael Grenadier
          Legend
          January 16, 2020

          mp3 files are already extremely compressed.  If you can't get better quality sources, you might try converting them to 48k 16 aiff and see if they sound ok and if so, do a test export...

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