When using "maintain audio pitch" with "Clip Speed/Duration" the resulting audio is unusable

[David31605306ipln]

I have to make slight adjustments to the speed of video clips for length on a regular basis.  If the clips have sync audio I can't use "maintain audio pitch" with "Clip Speed/Duration" because the speakers voice will have a terrible digital delay effect added.  This has been occuring for years now.  If I turn off "maintain audio pitch" and instead use "Pitch Shifter" it works perfectly fine with zero delay artifacts.  If I send the audio to Audition it works perfectly with zero artifacts.  Can we please have "maintain audio pitch" fixed.  if not can we just have it removed as an option?   

[IanB_360]

Hi @David31605306ipln 

Welcome to the Premiere Pro forums! We are glad to see you here.

It sounds like that would be a useful tool. So just to help me understand you have a clip with linked audio and it is lets say interview footage. You have to add timewarp for certain reasons and you would like the audio to match the timewarp. of the video but still maintain the sound quality of the original audio so that it matches up with the new video speed? I am curious f you could post a video of a clip that has gone through this process? I know the timewarp effect does not always play well with others sometimes and it is important for all the tools you have to work together in certain cases.

Thank you

Ian

[David31605306ipln]

No.  I have a 30:15 second clip of talent speaking and I want to make it 30:00 seconds.  I set the clip speed to something like 98% then I check maintain audio pitch so they don't sound like a chipmunk.  As soon as I check this box the audio sounds like it's in a reverb tank.   I don't have time to create a video right now but I will try when I have time.

[BibbidiBobbidiBob]

This isn't only a problem for timewarp but also during playback. I don't know any (audio) player today where the audio introduces such artifacts when being played at 2x or 1/2x speed. It just sounds natural, just faster or slower.

Premiere seriously should have a look at other (audio) players and how they handle playback at different speeds.

[MyerPj]

It's an older thread, but Audition works quite well with speed changes.

[BibbidiBobbidiBob]

Yeah, but using Audition for a quick adjustment feels like an unnecessary overkill to me. There also is an extension that deals with this by using the pitch effect but looking at other NLEs and even media players, it just feels like Premiere is behind.

Also Audition wont fix the artifacts during playback (no time stretch applied to the clips).