Can't EXPORT! "Rendering Required Audio Files"

[sincere_intelligence5C1C]

I have a 1 minute video project. When I go to export it, it says "Rendering Required Audio Files" at 0%. I waited about 10 minutes and it was still at 0%

I have the original audio file and also an mp3 song for background music on this short and simple project. I tried converting it to a song to a WAV file but that didn't make a difference. Also my C and D drive are not close to being full, if that makes any difference.

I tried exporting the project without the music audio in it and it said the same thing. I then tried to export the project with out the original audio and then another time with no audio and the "Rendering Required Audio Files" still showed up and wouldn't export.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Ryan

[neil wilkes]

Hi Michael.

A couple of ideas that it may be worth trying to fix the existing project:

1. Purge your cache files completely. All of them. Save the project, close the project. Go into edit settings now & delete all surplus cache files, and make sure that the setting here is to put cache files next to the actual files for preference as this means when the project is done and you are backing up the files you'll be able to delete all the cache files and not miss any, as all will be in the project folder.

Close Premiere now, and open the location of your old Adobe Media Cache location.

Delete everything you find in here - most will be useless and any that Adobe tools require will be regenerated the next time the project is launched.

Now relaunch Premiere & then your project that had been causing trouble.

Can you export now?

If not, are all your audio files at the same sample rate? You probably do not want to be mixing sample rates, and this may well be where things are sticking with a linked video/audio combo at a different sample rate to the main sequence.....worth a look, anyway?

[Michael Grenadier]

Thanks Neil. Great suggestions. I have a bunch of ideas to have them try
also

[Pablo272176547aql]

I'll try this later, but surely one of the most used editing platforms should be able to handle audio files of different sample rates? 

[nathalieb26460355]

Thanks for this. I did all of that with teh cache and I still can't export. I am using only one audio track. It just wouldn't export. I am still getting the "Rendering required audio files". Have you heard anything more about his issue? Thanks.

[rstetz]

I was having the same issue, It got hung up in Premiere but then I sent it to Media Encoder and it worked fine.

[Robert Mize]

Same problem here:  I'm trying to render a :10 sec. video file with VO & .aiff music;  and :30 mins. later,  Premiere still show 0% progress in "Rendering required audio files."  I cancelled that, put it in Media Encoder, which still took over 10 minutes to render the :10 secs of audio, and then spit the video out in about :02 secs.  I tried the fix from Neil Wilkes, but to no avail.   Premiere did not always have this issue.  Bottom line is, I can't afford to spend the time waiting on buggy software...  not to mention the cost of PPro.  Maybe DaVinci Resolve is in my future.

[Michael Grenadier]

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...   I've never seen this happening and I work on a variety of macs and on a windows machine.  Never easy to diagnose these problems from a distance and it's crucial to approach this in a systematic fashion if we're going to be able to solve the issue.   Since we're talking abouot a 10 second sequence, if you want to send me the source and a premiere project with just this sequence, I'll see if it's a problem on either my mac or windows machine...  You can reach me directly by clicking on my username at the top of this post and send me a direct message...  If it happens on one of my systems, hopefully I can isolate the cause and if it doesn't, we can start troubleshooting your setup.

[Robert Mize]

Thanks very much for the quick reply !

My primary system is:

MacBook Pro, OS Ventura 13.1

2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9

Radeon Pro 560X 4 GB

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Premiere Pro 23.1.0  (Build 86)

My render effort was actually a :15 sec. TEST render of a much longer sequence:  230102_CPAT_MUC_FINAL

When I saved the project as  PPro_AudioSlowRender.prproj  and reduced it to only the TEST sequence and associated media assets, the render was not delayed at all, rendering in less than :02 secs.

I’ve attached both Premiere files, but not the source media due to the size.

[Michael Grenadier]

I think we're getting somewhere.   I'll try and open these projects later today on my windows machine (don't have premiere 23 installed on the mac which is a 2012 macbookpro) and see if there's anything obvious going on...

[Michael Grenadier]

Although Premiere can usually handle almost anything you throw at it, somethings can cause intermittent and unpredictable problems.     First, your video is all 25 fps and your sequence is 29.97.        Ann, the source audio for the video is 32k sampling.  Only the mp3 audio is 48k...

And your music is mp3 which is a compressed format.   

All these things could be causing the issue and it could be the combination of any of these that is creating your export problem.     

First thing you might try is to duplicate your sequence and change the sequence settings to 25 fps.  I generally wouldn't work with 32k sampling as that's generally not a standard video format...  but the fastest thing to try is to export the mp3 files as a 48k 16 bit aiff which is uncompressed and will play better with Premiere...   If that doesn't speed up your export, post back and we can discuss what else to try...

Generally, I work with standard video formats and don't mix frame rates or audio sampling rates...  I've been doing this a very long time (actually started editing film on an upright moviola) and earlier versions of computerized editing software would not allow you to combine these formats...  and so I'm in the habit of making sure everything matches before editing...

[Robert Mize]

I don't go back to the film days, but I do remember when it wasn't much more complicated the 3/4" and/or Beta.  I appreciate those suggestions and wholeheartedly agree with the pursuit of consistency. Unfortunately the explosion of Zoom recordings and social media content as source material has forced us to deal with all kinds of variations on a timeline.  Consequently, this is probably just a new step to incorporate into the workflow.  

Again, thanks very much for your time and attention on this.

[Michael Grenadier]

You're absolutely right, it is a step you need to incorporate before you start editing...  but was trying to suggest the quickest "possible" solution...  

[Ann Bens]

Your sequence settings are set to 32000kHz as your audio is 48000kHz

[Robert Mize]

This project contains assets with various sample rates, frame rates and formats.

Are you suggesting I should first "pre-render" all my audio in the same sample rate as the sequence ?  

[Michael Grenadier]

In my most recent post, I suggested you try just changing the mp3 to match your video elements and match your sequence settings to your video elements...   but DUPLICATE YOUR SEQUENCE FIRST.   It may fix the problem without spending a lot of time...  and if it doesn't work, post back and we'll figure out how to proceed.

[הדר26421940xrph]

Hey there! I ran into exactly the same problem and found a relatively simple solution!
You have to select all the clips and things you want to export and then press enter (it actually renders everything before and creates separate files that are saved on the computer). After it finishes you can export and everything works. Tell me if it worked..

[Michael Grenadier]

I think you're describing "smart rendering"

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/faq-what-is-smart-rendering/td-p/10648488

This will give you a little more control over the process

[Robert Mize]

This is great info.
I think I see what I’ll be doing over the holiday break.
Thanks for your continuing support.

Rob Mize

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[Drazen27680739kt9u]

Had the similar problem. Since I use a lot of audio plugins for my job, premiere usually renders required audio files for around 15 mins. With premiere 23 it was the same, but it would show 0% for 15 minutes and then just suddenly switched to encoding video. I think the only problem is you cant see percentage in rendering audio files windows for some reason. I also checked task manager and it would show premiere using ram and cpu even it just shows 0%. So basically in my case it shows zero but its normally doing rendering audio files, then just jumps to encoding video out of nowhere haha. Hope this will help some of you guys.

[AndrewTheGreat]

I confirm. I don't know why PP started doing this, because my workflow
hasn't changed for years, in PP 2021 and 2022 it rendered without such a
problem. The reason is in using any audio plugins or at least Sssential
sound which I use practically everytime in my edits.

[Drazen27680739kt9u]

Yeah, really weird and annoying problem but fortunately harmless to the workflow. If it was more serious rendering problem like really stucking on 0% it would make premiere 23 unusable. But for sure it makes extra pressure when you are in hurry and cant see your rendering progress.

[Miles27694036llmb]

Thank god that its only a graphical bug!  Still annoying that it takes as long as it does with no progress but hey I'll take it!

[AndrewTheGreat]

Seeing what Apple suggests to its users with Final Cut Pro and Blackmagic
with its the cross platform Davinchi Resolve makes me feel so sad seeing
what Adobe does to its Premiere Pro. Sure Frame.io and vertical layout are
of the most necessity there but why do my clients have to wait for Premiere
Pro at least START rendering video after 25-40 minutes of stumbling apon
rendering audio with its own native built in plugins on.

[Michael Grenadier]

This is not normal behavior.    When we looked closely at Robert Mize's issues and found several red flags...    You said you had a very simple workaround which should take just a few seconds to implement.  Are you still having problems?    If you want to dig in to what's causing your issues, post back and we can spend some time trying to track down the issue in a systematic fashion.  

I've been doing this for a very long time (sometimes seems too long).  Early software video editing solutions like Avid required that ALL media be transcoded into a proprietary Avid format so that frame rates, codecs, etc matched and were optimized for the software.  It's great that Premiere allows you to throw almost anything at it, but there are times where you're just putting too much strain on the system.    Avids now allow you to work directly with the uncoverted media (in most cases) but it's not the ideal way to work and can come back and bite you on the butt..  

[AndrewTheGreat]

This is not funny AT ALL. Brand new Core-i7 13700, Nvidia RTX 4080, 64 Gb of RAM running at 5600, Premiere Pro 23.1.0, no external audio plugins use, and this export is STILL THERE!

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