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 · Mar 08, 2016

So, I have, after months of searching on and off, found reliable way to reproduce this issue, and have sent it off to developers to investigate and hopefully fix.

What I have discovered is that this is a timing issue to do with the saving to disk from Audition. If you start playback in Premiere either before or as the audio file is being saved, Premiere will not properly refresh the audio clip and play loud noise out of the speakers.

The only work around I can give for now: After saving the edited file in Audition, wait until the save is complete. When switching back to Premiere, also wait until Premiere has updated the waveform in the timeline before you start playback.

-Matt

Report · Apr 08, 2016

While this may indeed have something to do with it, it is not the sole cause. I have tried waiting until the save is done, no change. I still get the shriek. I have even pushed it to an extreme and waited 10 mins a few different times just to test if it would help at all and nothing changes.

This is beyond ridiculous. This has been an issue for way to long. I cannot believe I am still dealing with this garbage.

Report · Jul 13, 2016

Hi all,

Good news. I've been testing a fix for this in the next patch and it appears fixed.

-Matt

Report · Nov 29, 2016

Hi Matt, It's the end of 2016, I've upgraded to Premiere cc 2017 and this is still an issue. When I'm working with audio effects in Premiere - not having done anything in Audition - this terrible deafening, painful screech is occurring. Happened tonight as I was trying to turn the DeEsser on and off. Also, on another note, anytime I work with audio effects, Premiere crashes. I hope there can be a fix to this soon.

Report · Apr 07, 2017

This just happened to me about 15 minutes ago but I had already exported the audio and it was normal yesterday.

.wav format exported from Audition. With noise reduction. Worked wonderfully at first....

Maybe I accidentally did something wrong. I had headphones on and even my coworker was startled and wondering what it was you can hear it LOUD through the headphones. I turned up the volume considerably loud already since the audio is quiet and from a video.

I can post a video or link of the sound as it's in my headphones, at a setting of 1 and still loud....I'm worried about my ears now and I feel an overall sense of confusion. I really hope this does not happen to anyone. It didn't really hurt I guess it was so fast. My auto response was to tense up and it took me a split second too long just rip the earbuds off. It was like getting a wave of electricity vibrating my whole brain.

Report · Apr 07, 2017

sammi3 wrote
This just happened to me about 15 minutes ago but I had already exported the audio and it was normal yesterday.

Which version of Premiere and which version of Audition?

Report · Apr 07, 2017

Hi, thank you for your reply. I just updated last night, Creative Cloud so it's Premiere CC 2017 and Audition CC 2017

Report · Apr 07, 2017

Can you post the file somewhere?

Report · Apr 07, 2017

Ah now I'm second guessing what happened. I transferred the audio to Mac (from PC). I swear it was fine until today so maybe it's not Audition. I'm going to start over and do the same noise reduction. But opening the corrupted audio, using Audition for a visual, looks like this; the noise starts at the 6:10 mark. It's like 20 minutes long. I can't find the Audition file I saved now. Sorry but thank you for your time, I'll see if it's fine from here on out.

Report · Apr 19, 2018

This has happened to me 3 times in the last hour. I'm about to lose my $H@#$. I don't know what the heck is going on over there, but EVERY version of Premiere has done this on Mac. Everything will be fine for days/weeks and then suddenly without warning a HUGE pop or extremely loud static sound will happen just for a fraction of a second. It's so loud though it scares me and actually makes my ears hurt. I really wish you guys would address this problem while I still have operational ear drums.

Report · Apr 19, 2018

What version are you using? This was addressed in previous version of Premiere/Audition.

Report · Jan 10, 2021

I have this problem too, it keeps happening. I switched different headphones and still LOUD screeching randomly on files I record on Audition