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Inspiring
August 22, 2017
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Premiere Pro merges multiple audio tracks, how do I fix it?

  • August 22, 2017
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For the past few weeks, Premiere Pro has been constantly merging the audio clips of my videos. My videos typically use two audio tracks: a track for my desktop audio, and a track for my microphone audio. They work fine normally but when I move them into Premiere, both audio tracks contain the same audio and it causes an echo effect that wasn't there previously.

How do I prevent this from happening in future?

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Correct answer lsullivancorbell

No, uninstalling the application doesn't touch your project file. But even so, it's always good to have a backup of your work


That didn't work, unfortunately. However, I decided to try something I should have tried ages ago: putting older footage I had recorded into the same project. There were no issues, meaning Premiere Pro wasn't the culprit and was instead the fault of OBS, the software I use to record with.

I thank you very much for helping me through this problem, even if the solution wasn't related to Premiere, have a wonderful day

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Inspiring
August 22, 2017

Can you post a screenshot? When you say "both audio tracks contain the same audio" that's a little unclear. Do you mean your video now has a single stereo track with both audio sources and you can't select them separately?

Inspiring
August 22, 2017

Both tracks are present, as they should be, but both tracks contain the exact same audio, which they shouldn't. The desktop audio track has the mic audio included in it, and the mic audio track includes the desktop audio in it.

Inspiring
September 12, 2017

So as an experiment created a new save, which made no difference.

Should I try uninstalling it and reinstalling it and see if that makes a difference?


Did you try clearing your media cache, per the instructions in the link above? You could try resintalling, making sure to remove preferences when you uninstall, but that doesn't always help these kinds of issues. I'm inclined to think it won't, but I've seen trashing preferences fix weirder issues.