Can't EXPORT! "Rendering Required Audio Files"

[Ryan25575726vb6c]

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

[AndrewTheGreat]

Hi, @Kevin-Monahan or the ones who watch this discussion from Adobe staff.

Seems like this problem cannot be resolved. As far as I understand there IS some audio transcoding once the export starts and the only problem that all Premiere Pro users have with it is Premiere Pro showning 0% progress during this process. Media encoder on the other hand shows this progress fine. So cannot Adobe just make the progress bar work as it should - i.e. show the actual progress of the audio rendering? 

I had a simple project yesterday. It was an hour long screencast in h264 recorded with NVidia overlay. So after I cut it in quite a lot of pieces I still had to wait for this audio files rendering to finish which showed 0% all the time. It had no effects, overlays, text layers, anything, just obe video clip with the sound:

I restarted the process several times thinking that my export just froze. In fact Premiere Pro was doing this audio rendering but in the background showing 0% till the process was over. Should the process have shown the actual progress, I'd have had no questions. So this 0% progress is the only thing that should be fixed. We - Premiere Pro users - can wait another 3-5 minutes if we actually see what is going on

[Flamboyant_Luminary5EC5]

This problem is BRUTAL! Every single project I have done since switching from FCP to Premiere has had this issue. Sometimes I switch to 44.1 and that helps, sometimes not. Once I pasted into a new project and that helped, but only once out of about 12 projects.

I can't believe in 2025 with an M3 Pro Macbook and up to date software I am encountering this issue. I can't even export projects. I have to worry about bit rate and file type? Are you serious? I feel like it's the 90s here. I cannot continue to use this software at all. I will have to move to DaVinci unitl I can save up for FCP again. With FCP I haven't worried about this type of thing for years and I can just focus on editing.

A total digrace for Adobe. This software sucks. Period. I have tried everything and I still cannot export projects, so I will have to screen record what I have in the timeline for my last ever project editied with Premiere "Pro" or as it should be called Premiere "Amateur.

[Ezad]

It could be a codec issue. If the film is MP4 convert using a converter as one example Handshake to convert to for example MOv or AVi.   In short what ever the file convert the file then attempt to import. Once a converted file is successfully imported than Adobe PP will allow the usual edits.

[tho_sch]

I struggled with this issue and none of these fixes worked for me. What DID work however was deactivating some of the external plugins that I was using on my audio channels. It ended up being a compressor by Universal Audio which I used on a voiceover channel that caused the crash when rendering audio. Deactivating this plugin fixed it for me.

[AndrewTheGreat]

@tho_sch 

A good thing to know. Unfortunately most of us here have this issue without any external plugins as well. I personally had one after I'd just cut the material, that is all. There were no audio filters used even Premiere Pro's own. I still think this issue is related to the audio compression issue

[Aaditya27328461xavh]

Match audio sample rate 

1] go to sequence -> sequence settings and check the sample rate [my was 44100 Hz]

2] go to export -> audio -> basic audio setting -> SampleRate -> match sample rate with that of sequence [my was 44100 Hz]

This fixed the issue for me .

[elizabeth_4614]

None of these fixes work in 2025, it seems like the bug has evolved, very close to ending my relationship with Adobe, it just none stop problems

[EditorDIlu]

Guys I had this same issue and I did all and didnt worked but I figured out a way, but here is the best methods. may be no need to do all these steps but Ill say,

1. clean temp, remove preview files, delete cache
2. try making a new sequence and copy paste
3. check the audio properties by right clicking and propertise on the box there will be something like this (Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - Compressed - Stereo)  below that the Project Audio Format should be the same number. you can change it by going to sequence settings.

4. This is the importent step 3rd step only works if you do that for all the sequence on the project including the nested sequences too. so plesase makse sure to have the same nnumber in all. and that worked for me.

hope this will help someone!!