Premiere does not let me flatten audio

[fb_d]

Hello I'm working on premiere for a long time because I am an editor of a tv show and now an issue occured which I really never had it before and I am so desperate in finding a way to solve it.

I tried to search about this on the web but I could not find anyone with the same problem.

I usually multicam all my video clips and audio before editing them.After I am finished with the editing, I enable all video clips and audio and then flatten them so I can send an .omf and an .xml for sound and colour post production seperately.

I don't know what happened but this time when I enabled all my video and audio clips, and then tried to flatten them, it did flatten almost all them, but some audio clips where not flatten.

I tried to enable them again, in case they weren't enabled in the first time, but again as before Premiere does not let me flatten them. They remain on the multicam mode.

I checked my settings, but they seem normal. I don't thing anything changed there but I don't know what to check anymore. I even uninstalled the Premiere and restored all the settings and I still have the same problem.

If anyone knows what may be happening I would realy appreciate the help because I cannot lose more time and all my work is bases on deadlines.. 

Thank you in advance

[h.sevush]

I'm a multicam editor and I'm having the same problem. What makes it crazy is that it's not consistant - some of my older maulticlips show this problem, some don't, newmulticlips have been OK so far. For multicam editing this is a major PITA, especially because you can't sen a nested file (which is what a multicam clip is) to Audition, you have to flatten it first. My current work around is having to match frame to the original source inthe timelineand then lay down a duplicate clip in the timeline which I then send to Audition. This all started with 23.4 and 23.5 is worse. Da Vinci is looking better and better.

[Stylianos24122562d682]

Hi, I'm having the same problem. Premiere doesn't let me flatten the audio and so I cannot sent omf to post. Did you solved it? And if yes how?

[Dennis_K]

I'm having the exact same problem. It's an incredibly frustrating bug in the already horrible workflow of syncing huge amounts of video to huge amounts of sound. Now this bug costs about half a day to flatten all those audio tracks...

[fb_d]

I uninstalled the latest version of premiere and went back to the 23.4 one and it worls fine!

As it seems the problem occures on the 23.5 version..

[BrianLevin]

Having the same issue in 23.5. Solution is to keep a version of 22.6.4 installed in parallel and send your project back to 22.6.4 to do your flatten, then re-open in 23.5. But needs to be fixed, definitely a bug in 23.5.

[Rustic Media]

Experiencing this bug in 23.5.0 (Build 56). It's a really big problem!

My workaround (which I HATE)... is to Link the Multicam audio clips to be flattened to a respective Multicam video clip (or matchframe video back into the sequence to link temporarily and delete after MC Flatten). Once Audio and Video are Linked, flattening works as expected.

It's a major issue workflow issue that Mulicam Audio Clips now need to be linked to Multicam Video Clips to be flattened.

[Luizito]

Same problem here!

Had to overwrite the audio track with the master audio clip before editing...

If I go to setting sequence I can't neither change the audio settings from multichannel audio...

Any solved it in the meanwhile?

[www.momas.film]

same problem 02.04.2024 - still ....

[Jai308338933xkm]

Okay - not a great work around but if the audio not longer has a video layer (as like most editors you've chopped your audio into 1000 bits) -

1. select the audio -
2. (right click)  menu
3. multi-cam/
4. enable.
5. Then menu (right click)
6. multi cam
7. flatten

You can select as many clips as you like

[PaulMurphy]

You do not need to flatten multicamera sequences before you export them as AAF or OMF files. Premiere will automatically reference the source media instead.

When you create a multicamera clip that alternates video tracks but not audio tracks, flattening the linked clip will flatten both the video and audio. However, if the video and audio become unlinked in the timeline, the video will remain a multicamera sequence and the audio will become a nested sequence.

You can quickly convert these back to multicamera sequences this way:
1. Select all your multicamera sequences in the timeline. You can do this by either using Find in Timeline and selecting Media Type: Sequence and then clicking Find All, or if you haven't changed the label color, select one audio clip in the timeline and choose Edit > Label > Select Label Group.
2. Right-click any of these clips and choose Multi-Camera > Enable.

Hope this helps! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

Cheers,
Paul

[Jai308338933xkm]

Oh cool. Is the AAF/OMF referencing the source audio an update? My experience in previous versions is always getting a call from my sound engineer saying 'where's my missing files'.  

[PaulMurphy]

From memory, it's been that way for a while now - I tested it as recently as last month, and all the original audio was there.

With both OMFs and AAFs, I use 'Embed Audio' and most sound engineers seem to prefer that.

Cheers,

Paul