Struggling with new Enhance Audio feature

[yash-lucid]

Each time I do an edit on a clip with "Enhanced Audio" from the essential graphics panel, Premiere has to re-analyze the entire clip, process, and then allow me to hear it correctly.

Previously, I would upload to https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance - yes it was an extra step but I never had to worry about this issue as I was working with an audio track as expected.

Premiere should not need to re-process constantly, and the more I cut, the more time-consuming and frustrating it is.

Was this an oversight? Is there a way around this?

[Ann Bens]

Maybe enhance when done with cutting?

[yash-lucid]

Thanks - I will do where possible in future, but for now I am transcribing audio recorded from a webcam and so enhance is critical in the early edit, but I'll likely try Matt's suggestion to bake in.

[mattchristensen · Accepted solution]

@yash-lucid this is working as designed. Enhance Speech will only process the portion of the audio that is used in your sequence. This way if you only cut in, say, 10 seconds of an hour-long audio piece, you only have to spend the time to run Enhance Speech on that 10 seconds. But that means if you trim or otherwise change the length of the audio segment used, Enhance Speech now needs to re-analyze the clip. There are two approaches you could take to avoid this:

1. Apply Enhance Speech at the end of your editing process

2. Cut the entire clip into a timeline, run Enhance Speech, then right click and choose Render and Replace... which will create a new WAV file of your audio with any effects on it. Then use that new WAV clip in your edit, with the Enhance Speech already "baked in"

[yash-lucid]

I'll give this a try thanks for the suggestion

[Kcaudill]

Understanding that this is an old thread, I just ran into it Googleing my frustrations with "enhance speech."

This is a bad design: If I have 10 minutes of audio in my timeline that has already been analyzed and I roll an edit 1 frame, or lift a tiny section (maybe I decide I want to just remove an "um") I have to re analyze everything. This simply cannot happen in a time sensitive professional editing environment. Have you ever edited in a live session with clients or producers in the room? If you're screening a cut and lose minutes to analysis, the tool becomes rather useless. 

The solutions don't cut it either: You can hardly ever expect to do this type of work at the very end, because cuts are rarely complete when there are many stakeholders involved. Fine for a solo Youtuber, not for an ad or long form. I also shouldn't have to render to a new wave file to "bake" the effect in. Premiere should just do this behind the scenes. Cache it somewhere for me.

A worthy fix would be for enhanced audio to be treated like warp stabilized footage. If you add edits to or shorten clips with the warp stabilizer on then, you don't lose the analysis of sections already analyzed.

[yash-lucid · Accepted solution]

Agreed so what I do now at the start of my projects is export WAV and get the enhanced version from Adobe Podcast, the enhance there is 10000x better that the one built into the program, and then just edit like normal. 

Until the in-app enhance is fixed, this is the best workaround I've found

EDIT: While I appreciate Matt's answer, the workflow suggested is terrible - I tried it for months - and it simply does not suit the reality of edits and feedback and reverts, so I'm marking this as the best solution for now.

[csselement]

Very aggravating "feature". Requesting a "re-anaylize" button instead of automatically analyzing the entire track again. Adobe uses this for warp stabilization and morph cut, so why not enhanced audio?