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Can't EXPORT! "Rendering Required Audio Files"

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October 10, 2022
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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

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Correct answer TadejSTR

I didn't have to clear the media cache.

All I had to do was to "copy & paste project into new project".

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jonberrier

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Hi!

Found two work-arounds that seemed of worked excellently on my end.

First, try changing the same rate in your audio to 44.1 or 48, whichever is not selected.

If that doesn't work, you can try sending the project to Media Encoder and that seems to work like a charm.

AndrewTheGreat

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If you send it to Me, it will still render audio the same amount of time, BUT showing the process. The render times are the same. Moreover, rendering in PPIS actually some tens of seconds faster than Me. But still the issue is there. None have I had in PP2021

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ori25902481vr33

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in my case, 2 audio tracks were in a different sample rate (44.1) then the sequence setting (48). When i muted them and export, no problem. Maybe try to match the audio sample rate to the sequenc settings.

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Michael Grenadier

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convert all audio to 48k 16 bit aiff or wav files... These will be uncompressed...

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Drazen27680739kt9u

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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

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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.

AndrewTheGreat

Known Participant

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.

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.

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הדר26421940xrph

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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..

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Michael Grenadier

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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

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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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Robert Mize

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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.

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Michael Grenadier

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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

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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.

230102_CPAT_MUC_4.zip

PPro_AudioSlowRender.zip

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rstetz2825188

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

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chazd48838456

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It's nothing in settings or specs. It's clearly a software issue with so many people having the issue. I'm sure a majority of us aren't new.

for this last fresh install of the most recent version it just doesn't work properly. Adobe support is horrible. All I do is share my screen and watch them ruin my project and then they hang up to let me reconnect all my videos that they managed to break the links to lol.

I'm just one more step closer to davinci imo

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Michael Grenadier

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how many people? in this thread maybe 10 or 12... It's not easy to diagnose these problems from a distance. Resolve is a superior color correction tool imho, but it's interface doesn't come close to Premiere's... If you want to try and troubleshoot this issue, post back and I'm more the willing to help... You said in an earlier post "Only audio corrections were to increase db, reduce reverb, clairty. " What is "clairty?" Is this a thirdparty plug-in? I just searched the effects for clarity and clairty without any results... How did you increase db and how did you reduce reverb? Try removing all these adjustments and see if you can export? And then maybe we can figure out what the source of the problem is...

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chazd48838456

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In the audio tab. Not a 3rd party plug-in. Select audio and normalize to 0 for db level increase.

The issue also exists in mass but only 10-12 people here went deep enough into google and spent the effort to login and post about it.

If the word isn’t clarity it’s synonymous. I’m not by my computer at the moment but everything is the same I’ve been doing for 7-8 years before this update.

Sent from my iPhone

AndrewTheGreat

Known Participant

Same here. Only a video with its own audio. Stuck. No FX used on any track

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Michael Grenadier

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what are the source properties? codec, sampling rate and bit depth are probably the most relevant specs... And always useful to tell us your system specs: OS version, Premiere version, amount of RAM, Hardware specs including graphics card...

AndrewTheGreat

Known Participant

It goes on and on again, I name my specs, software versions and video
specs, you (not exactly you, but anyone) suggest updating PP, video
drivers, recoding the video to some other format, turning on or off
hardware decoding or changing the renderer, and on and on again. Maybe it's
better to start improving the software from the Adobe's site, and not
adding another "critically useful feature" like frame.io support? I've
already found a solution. But it's a workaround. Like taking painkillers
instead of curing the disease itself.

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chazd48838456

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Having same issue here. I'm not even using any mp3. Just the audio tracks linked to the video. Only audio corrections were to increase db, reduce reverb, clairty.

anyone find a real solution. It's like they don't even use these programs before they release them. This should be a beta release issue worst case scenario.

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Pablo272176547aql

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I'm not using MP3 either. I have used some additional sound effects but everything is wav/ 48000 and it does always have problems on projects I'm using more sound design on. It's utterly ridiculous that one of the most used editing suites has issues with audio files that make it unusable.

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Joaquin27244073gxsw

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Hey there,

thank you for posting your question. Due to your post I was able to bypass a lot of troubleshooting. I also had the same issue with an MP3 imported at 44.1 kHz file to export as an H.264 video.
The Soloution I found in my case was to change the rate from 48 kHz to 44.1 kHz in the export menu under the audio tab.

Hence, the audio stayed at its original format. Although; it took about 5 minutes to render the audio files showing 0% movement.