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Inspiring
Mar 5, 2018 8:39 PM UTC
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Unable to create audio renderer

Run through all the fixes, read all the forums.  Still can't seem to conquer this one:

Have tried the following:  cleaning all caches, renaming the common folder, re-installing the software, changing the audio files from wav to several others, copied the project and did it from multiple locations, right clicked the audio to render & replace...nada...

Anyone have a better grasp on what to do with this one?

Many Thanks!

    exile1972Correct answer
    Inspiring
    Mar 7, 2018 5:18 PM UTC

    Just one from Illustrator, the others were just standard assets downloaded from eLearning brothers.


    open the mp4's in VLC and convert. Open the wav's in audacity and convert. open those converted files in Premiere.

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    Participant
    Oct 22, 2026 3:52 AM UTC

    Convert to what format? WAV’s? I’ve tried MP3’s and M4A’s...

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    Community Manager
    Oct 22, 2026 1:35 PM UTC

    Hi skyintheairwaves2525,

    Welcome to the community! Are you experiencing the same export error? If so, could you please confirm which version of Premiere and which operating system you’re using? This will help us diagnose the issue more effectively.


    Thanks,
    Sumeet

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    Participant
    May 31, 2025 7:23 PM UTC

    This problem happened to me as I was exporting a project that had been created and finished on a PC initially. When I tried to export on a Mac (which I've done before succesfully), I got the error. Opening the file and exporting on a PC fixed it for me.

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    Participant
    Aug 1, 2023 9:28 PM UTC

    Manually Delete the Audio and video previews for the project. If it won't let you create a folder called trash next to the project and drag them in there. This has worked 100% of the time for me.

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    Participant
    Dec 5, 2023 8:47 AM UTC

    What does this even mean? Can you elaborate?

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    Participant
    Feb 7, 2024 1:25 AM UTC

    Go to the folder where you saved the file, you shuld see the Audio Preview folder and the video preview folder.

    Delete them....Problem solved!

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    Participant
    Apr 4, 2023 8:23 PM UTC

    I have this issue intermittenly. I do not know what causes the issue. All my assets are stored locally. The only solution I have found is to export video without audio and recreate/audio match in a new premiere file. Which is big time bummer no fun. 

     

    Running 2022 version of premiere on Macbook Pro. 

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    Hcmason27Author
    Inspiring
    Mar 12, 2018 3:35 PM UTC

    As a follow up, I was able to find a permanent fix to the problem.  turns out it was a setting that our Network Operations department had set up.  The short and skinny is that in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, some of the softwares talk back to Adobe.com.  My company classified this as outside document storage which it prohibits, once they put the proper controls in place, everything was back to normal.  No need for work arounds, everything is as it should be.

    Best of luck!!!

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    W__Dan_Tanner
    Participant
    Oct 30, 2018 4:29 PM UTC

    Hey, I'm having similar problems here at my organization. Storing project files on a network drive is giving me all kinds of grief. Are you able to provide more details about what your IT people did to address this?

    I'm at the point of abandoning network storage in favor of doing everything locally.

    EDIT: I moved one project and all associated files to a local drive and my various audio problems magically went away.

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    Legend
    Oct 31, 2018 9:35 PM UTC

    Take a look at Steps 3G and H below.

    Unofficial Premiere Pro Troubleshooting Guide

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    Inspiring
    Mar 7, 2018 12:10 AM UTC

    do you get the same error message in Media Encoder?

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    Hcmason27Author
    Inspiring
    Mar 7, 2018 1:06 PM UTC

    Morning Exile,

    Nope..M.E. is just as angry....  In premiere, if I remove all audio, we are good.  Buuuuuuutttt...any audio, no matter the type makes it all sorts of upset.

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    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    Mar 7, 2018 1:25 PM UTC

    Make new sequence and drop everything from old sequence into this new one.

    And try again, see how that goes.

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    Legend
    Mar 6, 2018 9:40 PM UTC

    That's a new one.  Maybe try some troubleshooting.

    Unofficial Premiere Pro Troubleshooting Guide

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    Inspiring
    Mar 5, 2018 10:12 PM UTC

    transcode it.

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    Hcmason27Author
    Inspiring
    Mar 6, 2018 3:40 PM UTC

    Sorry Exile, project manager error:

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