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daniels33345895
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May 17, 2025
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Feature Request: Option to Completely Disable Automatic Audio Effects / Tagging in Essential Sound

  • May 17, 2025
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Hi Adobe team,

I'd like to request a simple, global option in Premiere Pro to completely disable all automatic audio tagging and effects applied by the Essential Sound panel or sequence templates.

Currently, when I import or drop audio clips into a sequence, Premiere often auto-assigns them as Dialogue or Music and applies compression, auto-ducking, or other effects without warning. Even when I manually clear audio types and remove applied effects, this behavior can return with new clips or tracks — especially when using sequence presets or re-opening projects.

This creates unnecessary confusion and extra cleanup work.

Feature request:

  • A global preference toggle (e.g. under Preferences > Audio) to turn off all automatic audio tagging and default Essential Sound effects — so Premiere treats imported audio as raw, untouched clips unless I manually assign them.

  • Or at least a warning/prompt when Essential Sound is about to apply processing to a clip.

This would save a lot of hassle for users who prefer full manual control of their audio and want a clean editing environment.

Thanks!

2 replies

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 19, 2025

Tagging is default on, and it should be default off.

This such a pain in the .....

mattchristensen
Legend
May 19, 2025

@daniels33345895 I believe this already exists, unless I'm misunderstanding your request.

 

Preferences > Audio > Auto-tag audio types in the timeline

 

Uncheck that, and no automatic tagging should be done.