Loud Static Screams in Headphones in Premiere after Clip Edited in Audition

Report · Oct 10, 2012

It hasn't happened in a while, but it has before. I will send a clip from Premiere Pro CS6 to be edited in Audition CS6 and when I go back to premiere to play the clip I get super loud static in my head phones and it really hurts my ears. Not really the safest thing and most definitely a bug. Just plain not cool. It really scares the crap out of me.

Report · Jun 24, 2015

Yes, apparently this has been happening for years, but Adobe has done nothing about it and won't even acknowledge the problem as far as I can tell.

That, in addition to the many other problems my team and I have been having with programs constantly crashing for no reason might mean it's time

to go back to Avid.

Adobe seems more concerned about bells and whistles nowadays rather than making stable, robust software.

Report · Jun 25, 2015

I finally got around it just by rendering the sequence / clip. I may have closed Premiere and reopened as well.

Report · Jun 25, 2015

Also, scrobling is really harsh when you enable ASIO...

Report · Jun 25, 2015

Just a note because it doesn't seem to have been mentioned in a while... the issue (at least on our workstations) appears to be caused by Premiere not quite catching up with the updated Audition changes. Jumping back too early into Premiere before it has a chance to read the newly saved audio clip causes the loud static. I'm not sure why Premiere defaults to a hearing-loss-inducing burst of static instead of, say, silence, but there you go. I advise waiting to give Premiere enough time to read the updated clip before playing the timeline. It typically only take a couple of seconds at most for us unless our system is getting hammered. And if we're having a run of static we always remove our headphones before jumping back to Premiere as well. Our hearing isn't worth a few seconds of productivity. But yeah, it would be super awesome if Adobe got this one fixed. Can anyone confirm if it has happened in CC 2015.0?

Report · Jun 26, 2015

I'm using Premiere CC 2015, and the problem still persists. Right Click audio>Edit Clip in Adobe Audition>remove noise, tinker with other effects>Save. I've waited almost 100 seconds before returning to Premiere, yet, the "Audio extracted" .wav file on the timeline SCREECHES so loud, my ear drums pop. My (mid 2011) iMac's volume is even set to halfway - NOT fully; heck, even setting the volume one dial up allows you to hear the insufferable noise.

This has been happening for 2 years on this computer, on and off, totally unpredictable (since CS6). It never recovers once its in the timeline, no matter how long I wait in Audition, or in Premiere; I need to restart (sadly, closing the project isn't enough, it needs to be a hard Quit of the program).

This should be fixed immediately.

Report · Jul 16, 2015

This is a huge bug, that would be nice to hear a response from. I use Audition just rarely enough in my projects that I often forget about this bug. I get blasted in the ears with high powered studio headphones pretty much every time. NOT COOL. One of the only software bugs I've heard of that is capable of physical harm.

Report · Jul 16, 2015

This loud screech happens to me as well but I do not roundtrip to audition. I've been trying to reproduce it to file a precise bug report to Adobe but I can't seem to be able to make it happen consistently. Here's a few things I've noticed.

Usually I have at least 8 channels of audio (some can be empty). The sequence is long and complex. Never happens at the start of a project but only once it starts getting more complex. It often happens when using Premiere audio plugins in the audio track mixer (Highpass, EQ... etc.).

I've also noticed it most often happens when you open your project, the loud noises when moving on the timeline stop after a few seconds to a minute of going about your work. When using an external USB audio interface I get the loud audio screech before audio mutes. When using iMac speakers the audio is muted with no screech. Sometimes both channels are muted, sometimes only left channel. I see the audio track mixer meters going up and down but the master meters are not there. Seems like the master channel mutes left, right or both channels.

Like I said I've found no consistency in when or with what files, plugins it happens with, very hard to pin down. If everyone can post more info maybe we can narrow it down?

Report · Aug 07, 2015

This has been happening to me since I came back to Premiere a little over a year ago. Blown out my ears at least a dozen times at this point. Just did a complete wipe and reinstall of the entire Creative Suite and still have the same issue. Completely infuriated that this still isn't receiving any attention from the company we pay $600/year to stay on top of bugs and glitches and work towards a stable product.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)

2.6 GHz Intel Core i7

16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB

Report · Aug 07, 2015

The fact that it occurs at full blast volume no matter how low your system's audio levels are at the time means all of us are being blasted with dangerous db levels. I refuse to believe this is a difficult patch.

Macpro late 2013

3.5 Ghz 6-core xeon

64gb ram

dual firepros

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Report · Sep 02, 2015

Hi Guys, the "solution" as mentioned already by a couple of users is to simply wait a minute or so before playback. There seems to be a delay with Dynamic Link, which is clearly some sort of glitch as I never used to have this issue pre-CC2014.

However, I would love to see a supercut of Premiere users jumping out of their chairs. That distortion is insanely loud and in an open plan office... embarrassing.

Report · Nov 06, 2015

Hello, 2012. Still experiencing this in q4 2015 with current versions of CC.

Report · Nov 24, 2015

Never had this problem until I upgraded to CC 2015 from CS6. Now both machines do it. White noise instead of the saved audio from Audtion.

Report · Dec 07, 2015

I’m running Premiere 2015.0.2 and I’m experiencing loud shrieks and pops when I use audio plug-ins - compressors and EQ. I notice loud clicks when I’m toggling the effects on and off - but also these sounds will randomly occur when playing down an edit.

I edit more on headphones than I used to and luckily today I was using control room monitors because the sounds were extremely loud - this could become a real problem for headphone users...

Report · Dec 11, 2015

"I’m running Premiere 2015.0.2 and I’m experiencing loud shrieks and pops when I use audio plug-ins - compressors and EQ. I notice loud clicks when I’m toggling the effects on and off - but also these sounds will randomly occur when playing down an edit."

This seems unrelated to the main issue being discussed here, can you start a new thread?

-Matt

Report · Dec 11, 2015

Hi All,

I'm trying to narrow this down, and need some more info. And cannot reproduce yet.

What formats and channelization are you working with when the bug appears?

What is the sample rate of the audio in the files, and what is the sample rate of the Sequence?

Is there any effects on either the clips or on tracks in Premiere?

Does this only happen when you play a sequence while conforming the audio?

Has he project been moved from the original machine to a new machine?

So far this is what I have tried with no success:

1. Import a clipinto a Premiere Project.

2. Drag it into the Timeline panel, this creates a new sequence with settings that match the clip.

3. Right click on the clip and execute "Edit Clip in Adobe Audition". Wait for the clip to open in Audition.

4. In Audition, I capture a noise print, then open the Noise Reduction dialog.

5. I apply the effect, then save in Audition.

6. When the save is done, I go back to Premiere, Premiere updates the audio and I play.

What, if anything, are you doing that is missing from the above?

-Matt

Report · Dec 11, 2015

For me, it happens consistently to any .mts files that I've injested from an NEX-FS700

Report · Dec 15, 2015

Ephisus wrote:

For me, it happens consistently to any .mts files that I've injested from an NEX-FS700

Are you on CC 2015.1 (PPro 9.1) or an earlier version. I believe we fixed most of the loud noise issues in CC 2015.1

Report · Dec 15, 2015

We just upgraded to the recent release. I encountered this on an older build, haven't had occasion to test it on the new release yet.

Report · Jan 07, 2016

Matt_Stegner wrote:

Hi All,

I'm trying to narrow this down, and need some more info. And cannot reproduce yet.

What formats and channelization are you working with when the bug appears?

What is the sample rate of the audio in the files, and what is the sample rate of the Sequence?

Is there any effects on either the clips or on tracks in Premiere?

Does this only happen when you play a sequence while conforming the audio?

Has he project been moved from the original machine to a new machine?

So far this is what I have tried with no success:

1. Import a clipinto a Premiere Project.

2. Drag it into the Timeline panel, this creates a new sequence with settings that match the clip.

3. Right click on the clip and execute "Edit Clip in Adobe Audition". Wait for the clip to open in Audition.

4. In Audition, I capture a noise print, then open the Noise Reduction dialog.

5. I apply the effect, then save in Audition.

6. When the save is done, I go back to Premiere, Premiere updates the audio and I play.

What, if anything, are you doing that is missing from the above?

-Matt

To you Matt and Charles VW, the issue still persists. I am linking a video that is a rather simple example of what I have been dealing with for a few months. I am only applying one effect for the purpose of the video example, but I typically have more if I am going to Audition for sound editing. This issue needs to be fixed as it is killing my workflow and making dynamic link, an Adobe "Killer feature" worthless...

Premiere Pro/Audition Dynamic Link Audio Problem - YouTube

Report · Jan 07, 2016

Hi Guys, after completely updating to the latest version of CC 2015 this issue has disappeared for me. Also, sometimes it was really a case of waiting a minute or so for the dynamic link to kick in.

Report · Jan 21, 2016

I'm using version 9.1.0 (Build 174) CC Version of PP and version 8.1.0.162 of Audition, downloaded yesterday. On a MacBook Pro.

The issue is very simple: when coming back from Audition, PrePro does not "update" the clip (step 6 in Matt's list) fast enough. If you try to play the clip in the PP Timeline too soon, it blasts the shrieking static; that is, it plays NEITHER the old (unedited) version of the clip NOR the new version from Audition. (I have come to think of it as basically PrePro screaming at me, "I haven't got your #@$@# clip back from Audition yet! Give me a minute, you impatient #$&#&!!! " ...at ear-damaging, speaker-damaging, volume and pitch.)

SAFETY TIP: You have to wait for the clip in the timeline to "blink" on and off, showing that it's been updated. Maybe on faster machines, it updates faster so some users never have this problem. But my machine meets the prescribed specs to run the software.

Two main software bugs here, Matt.

One, it should not take up to 30 seconds (every time, for me) for PrePro to update a clip we're round-tripping into Audition. This cross-app workflow is a feature you guys are pushing all over the place (and it is a really cool feature, which is why we're all trying to use it), so the clip in PP should update itself in the background as soon as it's saved in Audition, so that as soon as we switch back to PP we are seeing and playing the updated version.

Two, PP should NEVER play this horrible static when a clip is not available, or PP is confused, or for whatever reason! There should be some kind of safety valve on the audio output if PP gets the urge to scream at us, something that will mute- or maybe play a basic test tone or something. (Like the "Media Pending" video placeholder -- you don't display ugly screen-scratching snow every time there's a video clip that PP can't find.)

Report · Feb 24, 2016

I am having this same issue - extremely loud static on playback that occurs randomly within a project that has never gone to Audition.

I cannot replicate the problem predictably, but once it starts, it persists through exporting. Sometimes the static only happens on one clip, sometimes once it starts, it affects a majority of the clips.

It generally does not occur right after I launch a project, only after I have been working for a while.

It is so loud that my coworkers can hear it bleeding through my headphones.

Premiere Pro CC 2015.2 Release

9.2.0 (41) Build

Mac Pro (Late 2013)

3.7 Ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon E5

12 GB 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC

Report · Mar 01, 2016

This is definitely some kind of bug - it's been happening for years through all the upgrades

I check this forum every now and again, hopeful to see solutions or if Adobe has fixed this horrible issue, but alas..........*tumbleweed bounces past*

I'm editing a large project at the moment with footage from three different cameras (all 25fps 1080p), one from a 5D, one from a 7D and one from a Sony EX-1.

Interestingly, the only and EVERY time I edit a piece of audio from the Sony EX-1 is when this problem occurs. All other clips 'blink' and update pretty much straight away. So am wondering if it has something to do with codecs and the way they relate to the software?

No idea, but my roof is going to need fixing I've gone through it that many times... #LOUDNOISES

Report · Mar 04, 2016

I have the same thing going on besides the screech--after I hit save in Audition, dynamic link updates the audio file to a .wav and sends it back to PP the audio track has a completely different looking waveform readout! (As per the below screenshots).

In PP, I do a right click on my Ch. 1 audio track “edit Clip in Audition” in order to perform a minor Noise Reduction effect to remove an AC fan hum. In Audition, I hit save and go back into Premiere where it produces a very different looking audio waveform (as seen in Green/Ch. 2) from the original Iris/Ch. 1. For visual sakes, I manually put the original audio back into Ch. 1, so to see the disparity between the audio waveforms. These are identical sounding audio tracks, but have completely different looking waveform displays.

I’ve tried cleaning cache, both through PP preferences, as well as manually by deleting them from the Library. I should also mention that there are times when the file comes out of Audition and plays back in PP as a high pitched over-modulated screeching noise. I just don’t know what’s going on.

I use a MacBook Pro 2013, OS X Yosemite (not El Capitan), 16GB memory. Everything is up to date.

I greatly appreciate your help and expertise. Please help Adobe!

Report · Mar 08, 2016

The waveform issue is separate, and should be posted to a new thread, it is better to not introduce new issues to existing threads. It make sifting through the information easier.

-Matt