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Why does Premiere lower the volume of clip when nesting? Any way to prevent this?

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
November 30, 2019
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This is a thing that's been bugging me for a really long time but I never bothered to ask about... I've noticed that the volume of a clip drops a few db if I nest it. This is really annoying because if I get the audio just right and then nest it later, I need to adjust the levels again. It's also annoying if audio has come from the same source and I want to nest one small piece of it, because then I need to manually balance it so it doesn't sound like the audio source suddently got quieter as the play head hit the nested clip. If I end up nesting something inside a nested clip, things can get extremely frustrating to work with.

Why is Premiere pro doing this? Is there a setting somewhere to make nested clips and subsequences play at full volume?

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Pat_N

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I also have this problem and can't find a solution yet.

Averdahl

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Since the audio is getting lower it seems that the Mix track on the sequence you put into a new sequence, iow nest, is set to Multichannel. If you nest a sequence that has the Mix set to Multichannel into a sequence that has its Mix set to Stereo the result is always lower audio.

Look at the icons in the images. The one with a red circle has the Mix set to Multichannel while the one with the green circle has its Mix set to Stereo.

This is all due to the pan law and if you Google it you will find out why and how it works. All apps that work with audio behave the same.

The solution is to avoid Multichannel sequences unless you really need it and work with Stereo sequences only. Or, raise the audio for the sequence you nest in the sequence you nest to.

I also have this problem and can't find a solution yet.

By @Pat_N

Mr. WalletAuthor

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Can you do a simple project with one sequence with the audio (mono files) and nest it into a new sequence so you can hear the issue and then save it and upload just the Premiere Pro project file here, or send it via the forum to me? I want to take a look at the project to hopefully find a solution.

I don´t need the original audio, i can replace it with audio files i have.

...so almost all of my audio sources are mono...

By @Mr. Wallet

I fiddled around for 15 minutes and wasn't able to repro; my case may have been fixed in the 5 years since (I've been avoiding nesting audio simply out of habit all this time).

I could check the original project, but it's archived separately and may not even migrate accurately to the latest version (I've had an entire project trashed just trying to jump 2 versions).

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ah_photo

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Is there a discrepency between the audio channel configuration of the nest and the audio sources within the nest?

For example, do you have a single track of mono audio within the nest, but the nest itself has been configured to have stereo audio? If so, then instances like that would probably account for the difference.

Mr. WalletAuthor

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There's no discrepancy whatsoever. In fact, if I duplicate a sequence, delete the contents of one, and nest the other inside of the cleared one, the overall volume will be lower.

Or I can right click an individal audio track and `Nest...` it, and it's also quieter.

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