Premiere shifted the timing of the audio of a project when I opened it

[noahshipman]

I had an edit I have been working on for a client for months. I had a music edit going that went through many rounds of feedback until the client was happy with it - basically, I cut a stock track in multiple places and stitched it together, crossfaded, etc. I put a lot of work into it.

Today, I opened up the project, and the timing of each clip of the music is all messed up. I'm not saying that the timeline was shifted back - rather, it's the clips themselves that now start and end at a different place in the music than what I previously had. It looks like it shifted the first audio clip to start at 0, and presumably the rest were shifted back by the same amount of audio units.

I have MANY versions of this project saved, and they are ALL messed up in the same way. Why did Premiere do this?? Is there any way to restore the edit I previously had? I need to license the music now for final export to client.

Premiere v24.6.3

Windows PC

Ryzen 9, NVIDIA 3060, 64 GB RAM, footage on external hard drive

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @noahshipman,

Welcome to the forums and thanks for filing the bug. I understand that you experienced unexpected behavior with an audio clip seemingly shifting in place. The team might need more information about your source media and workflow, See, How do I write a bug report?

As we await a response from developers, you can try troubleshooting steps that might help solve your issue.

1. Press Shfit at launch and delete the media cache from the Reset Options dialog. You can also try the other options here, too. Just keep in mind that if you don't back up your preferences file, customizations will be reset.
2. Unlink and then relink the media. Sometimes, files can go awry when on external media drives, especially NAS or SAN storage.
3. Check the file type. Are you using highly compressed .mp3 files? They are not recommended. See if you can find an uncompressed source file and link your clips to a more stable format like .wav or .aif.
4. Check a recent Auto-Save project file. Your edit might be intact in an earlier version of the file.
5. Check the History panel. You may be able to locate an undo restoring the correct edit.

I hope the team will respond shortly. Sorry for the hassle.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Shawn34650588h1rw]

I am having an issue similar... and it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO frustrating...

Every single piece of audio seems to have shifted within the cuts themselves... And it is source audio. I have a project that contains 8 hours of footage with hundreds of cuts... I have tried so many fixes at this point for audio issues...

Additionally, several of the clips play 2x... (there is only one track)... it is like an echo, but there are no effects applied... I cannot do my work right now as a result of this... (I work for myself and I am behind a whole day of production).

I tried so much before posting here... what in the heck is happening and how do I get it back to being ok? it would take days to readjust every single cut

[Peru Bob]

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@Shawn34650588h1rw wrote:

Additionally, several of the clips play 2x... (there is only one track)... it is like an echo, but there are no effects applied...

Check the Audio Hardware Preferences. Default Audio Input should be set to No Input.

[Shawn34650588h1rw]

Thank you very much, I had wondered about that selection! Still working on fixing the big issue of audio shifting, but appreciate this very much

[noahshipman · Accepted solution]

I was able to fix this issue! I had to make the sound file offline and then I had to rename the file in my file explorer (I literally just added a "-" at the end) and then move it to a new folder - any other folder works. And then I relinked it and it worked! Very unintuitive, and I have no idea why this happened all of a sudden on a project I'd been working on for months! None of the other fixes I found online worked for me. 

[Shawn34650588h1rw]

Thank you for the response. I ended up fixing it via what you gave but I had to do a LOT of trial and error and learning to get to it. Thank you so much My YouTube channel is OGTomatoGuy if you're curious! Appreciate the help!