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February 8, 2017
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Losing rendered multicam audio waveforms on restart

  • February 8, 2017
  • 14 replies
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Hello,

As the title states, I have a multi-camera sequence and I have rendered the audio to show the waveforms, which works fine.

However, if I close and restart Premiere, I lose those previews, every single time. I just get the audio track with a red line through it, and no waveform.

I have my Audio Previews scratch folder set to Same as Project, and I don't see any permissions issues with that folder.

I am on CC 2017.0.2. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Correct answer Kevin-Monahan

Hi rkatelobo,

Sounds like you're having a bout of unexpected behavior with audio waveforms disappearing. My colleagues and I were able to reproduce your error on both Mac and PC. Very sorry for this problem! We are filing a bug and hope to get this fixed ASAP. We appreciate your patience on this while we get the problem fixed. If you have time, could you file a bug from your side, as well? That would be so helpful.

Thanks,
Kevin

14 replies

Participant
September 12, 2024

Fall of 2024 and this bug has not been fixed still?

Dealing with this issue DAILY. @Adobe please fix this.

Known Participant
June 1, 2025

Issue stil persisting on my end as well. Any updates from the Adobe team? 

KWStrick
Known Participant
April 9, 2024

April 2024.  Samezees.

Premiere Pro 24.3 Beta
2021 MacBook Pro M1

Ventura 13.4.1c

JP-PostMan
Known Participant
September 28, 2023

It's 2023 and this bug has never been fixed

Participating Frequently
June 12, 2023

Not only this bug still exists, but when rendering audio, a 3gb original source audio file becomes over 100gb on disk cache once the "render audio" is done. There is something very wrong about this.

Known Participant
May 16, 2022

In the year of our lord 2022 I'm having this exact issue. Waveforms randomly disappear across the timeline. Can be recreated with a lengthy audio render (like 30 minutes for a 6 minute sequence - another bug in multicam audio?) Sometimes just disappearing, sometimes disappearing to be replaced with a thin red line across the whole track. Sometimes reappearing just as randomly! Starting to understand the haters who want to cut on AVID...

Participant
September 26, 2020

not fixed yet. @kevin_monahan you should work faster on bugfixing if you dont want to loos customers. so many bugs in this program.

Participant
September 9, 2020

Still happening here, Sept 2020. I guess that means it takes about 4 years to fix a bug at Adobe? We're on year 3 with no movement.

Participant
September 9, 2020

After wasting a good hour rendering audio and searching the internet for a fix, I went back into the project, right-clicked on the multi-cam sequence clip in the Project window, and chose "Link Media". Once I linked to the source audio file, it worked. One thing to note: this does NOT work if you right-click the file in the timeline. Find the Multicam file, right-click, link media.

 

C'MON ADOBE!

Participant
January 23, 2020

Circling back on this, this bug is still occuring.  It's Jan. 2020, almost three years after the inital post.  Any update? 

demac0910
Participant
March 15, 2019

Hello and Greetings,

I recently recorded a two-camera shoot with an external audio recording. I brought my files into Premiere CC 2019 and built a multi-cam sequence and everything worked great. I loaded my sequence into the Program monitor with the multi-cam option selected and both shots displayed in the Program Monitor. I then started putting cuts in my clips within the Timeline Panel to trim out unwanted footage. There were 5 takes line on the time and a fair bit of trash to take out, which I did and was still able to keep my audio intact and reduce most of the unwanted footage.

I closed my file to work on it later and when I opened it there is a red line through the middle of my Audio Track and sound only plays on the first clip, after that the audio is no longer present. I have looked online and found this reference to a bug that may be causing this but that thread answer was from 2017

Before performing the above, which included my rendering the audio before starting any edits in the Timeline. If I did not render the audio first I would lose audio to the right of the cut every time but once I rendered the audio i could cut and edit to my heart's content.  My trims were ripple edits switching between the razor tool and the ripple edit tool.

Can anyone shed light on this issue, is it my workflow or the program?

Participant
March 8, 2019

Two years later, this problem still exists for me (and others apparently).

I'm on Mac OSX 10.13.6 & PrPro 13.0.2

So frustrating. There are a few other quirks with the current build but this has to be one of the most annoying/time consuming. I'm having to add an extra 30 mins of prep time prior to clients showing up just to make sure I have audio when they arrive. So unprofessional.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
March 8, 2019

It's clearly happening for a few but not many.

Let's get more notice for this ... go to the new bug/features site which is linked from the top of the Overview page of this forum. Post a detailed comment there, as that goes directly to the engineers system and also the upper managers who decide budgets and features and such.

Then post the link back here so others can go comment and vote it up.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...