Voiceover record bugged

[sam_5733]

A voiceover I recorded directly into Premiere Pro seems to have something wrong with it. I recorded 5 voiceovers using Rode Wireless Me microphones, 4 of which were short tests. The 5th was a 36-minute interview. I found the files in Premiere's 'captured audio' folder. The tests had been labelled Audio 1, Audio 1_1, Audio 1_2 and Audio 1_3 but the long interview is listed in that folder as "224552b7-d49b-4285-8f27-1eb257466087.wav". I didn't change any settings between my recordings. According to Quicktime Player the audio format of the working files is Linear PCM, 32 bit little-endian floating point, 48000 Hz, which should be the same for the broken file, which does not play in Quicktime Player ("this file isn't compatible"), Apple Music or Finder. In Premiere Pro the file imports but appears empty. In the project timeline, the clip was labelled offline when I first found it broken, 10 days after recording. Linking the 224552b7-d49b-4285-8f27-1eb257466087.wav file put danger stripes on the clip, which was still empty. The file only plays in VLC media player, but is missing its last 7 minutes (from 36min21sec to 19min21sec). I'm using Version 25.1 of Premiere on a 2020 MacBook Air with OS Sonoma 14.6.1

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @sam_5733,

Thanks for reporting the bug. I'm Kevin from Adobe Support, a moderator here. I hope to assist you.

You may want to provide the team with more info so that can recreate your issue and then fix it. See: How do I write a bug report?

To troubleshoot this issue, try another test recording and see if it works. I have a feeling that long recordings are more succeptible to anomalies, and in this case, your file was corrupted for some reason. Since I am not an engineer and am unfamiliar with the limitations of the Voiceover tool, (if any), I'm not sure what went wrong here.

You may want to use a dedicated audio recorder for extended interviews as a backup for future recordings. 

I hope we can figure out how to assist you with this problem shortly. Sorry for the problem.

Thanks,
Kevin