Pitch Shifter creates distorted, poor quality audio

[Crazylykeafox]

Does anybody know how to get a smooth result from pitchshifter?  All I get is distorted poor quality results that are unusable.  The only way I can describe it is that sound wavers and sounds like its vibrating.  I usually have my girlfriend change the pitch on her Final Cut Pro and then export it for me but thats not working today and its time I figure this out.

All Im doing is dropping the semi-tones by -1 or -2 and leaving the cents alone.

Any help would be great!!

[excited_Genie16B8]

Audition might be the better tool for this one.

[brian704]

Audition is definitely better - you can select the audio file and go to Edit-> edit in audition. It will send a copy over

[aartturi]

So what do you do with Audition to make the quality better?

This is what I get with Premiere (Random sound file from freesound.org edited with premiere) https://streamable.com/detpxg
I cannot use this, because the audio is distorded badly which I would like to not do.

[Michael Grenadier]

just send to audition as brian704 suggests.  I've had this problem with trying to speed up footage without changing the pitch and audition handled it fine.  as I remember figuring out how to match the speed change got a little tricky...

but no question, audition handled it much better than premiere.  this was in premiere 2019.  Maybe they've improved it in 2020