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Inspiring
May 1, 2025
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With Dynamic Audio Waveforms turned off, audio gain changes are not visible anymore

  • May 1, 2025
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Premiere Vers 25.2.3

MacOS Sonoma, M1 Max, 64GB RAM

 

Lots of people complaining about the new Dynamic Audio Waveform feature.  I find it annoying and have it turned off like many of you.  Problem now is, when I right-click a clip to adjust the overall audio gain of a clip in the timeline, the waveform does not change to reflect the gain change.  So for instance, if you have a recording that was recorded very low and you adjust the gain +15dB to a normal level, the waveform in the timeline is still minimized.  This is not helpful at all.  If you turn Dynamic Audio Waveforms back on, you can see the gain adjustment, but now you have all the annoyances of having it turned on, which makes things like editing audio clips super frustrating for a number of reasons.  Please set this back to the way it was before the new feature was added.  Thank you.

17 replies

BrianLevin
Known Participant
September 9, 2025

Agree that I don't like the new behavior here. I will use Audio Gain to boost under-recorded production audio, but do not want Dynamic Waveforms to be turned on when I am dealing with other aspects of the edit. I use the size of the waveforms by Audio Gain to know if I've boosted audio or not vs. using the Volume effects. Dynamic Waveforms should work for Volume, but should always be on at all times for Audio Gain, I wish that that hadn't been touched when adding the dynamic waveforms.

Inspiring
August 11, 2025

@Federico-BlueFrameVisuals totally feeling your pain!

Participating Frequently
August 11, 2025

Agreeing here to what most ppl say here.

I've editing for more than 20y, and for main TV channels (NatGeo, PBS...) so very used to moving around in PP and fast. Now, this dynamic audio WF is imho not a professional addition as one needs to SEE the waveform of a clip to know where it should fade in or out.. The WF reflects the content of the clip and is used to visually cue beats, peak, etc... We can't have it disappear! Yet fine indeed if it's an option, but not at the price of losing the visual global gain of a clip... I'm quite disappointed in a few other bugs, and to keep it to the audio chapter -> the in and out marking in the monitor panel bugs by not having the in to out area darkened... Or is it a new feature..? Also, marking out with O starts the playbak now... What's that ?

Another issue that wasn't there before is that when in the FX panels and jumping to the next edit point, we now can't jump back by one frame (the next clip is "highlighted/selected) and pressing the Left arow doesn't have any effect... It's a very annoying issue as when animating, (scale, posiiton, rotation...) It's a VERY common thiing to jump to end of clip and move 1 frame back to be at the last frame of it, to place the last KF... Now one needs to Shift-3 to get the TL active again in order to be able to move back 1 frame... Really. 😞

Anyway, sorry to sound complaining, but editing needs to be practical and a lot fo attention to WORKFLOW is a must in an editing software. Please Adobe, consider.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

DJP2014
Inspiring
July 11, 2025

Yes, this is starting to become frustrating.

Having to switch it ON if I want to see a clip with poor audio but then OFF because i need to see the full waveform of a music track. Back and forth. 

Participant
July 11, 2025

This answer is missing the whole point of what he is asking. We want full control of what we were able to do before. Timeline adjustments that are not changing the waveforms but Audio Gain adjustments are reflected in the waveform. 

 

The new feature is cool, but not at the cost of losing previous functionality. 

DJP2014
Inspiring
June 16, 2025

@mattchristensen Will Gain behavior return to how it was previously (dynamic always on) when Premiere 25.4 is realeased?

 

Inspiring
May 28, 2025

Didn't ask for this feature, didn't need it - as videomc74 says, with it switched off I can't see the gain adjustment - with it on, I can't see clips I've muted but left on the timeline as spares. Please revert back to as it was.

Participating Frequently
May 15, 2025

A note to Adobe - you can add a new feature without removing another one that people rely on. There was no need to remove the visible clip gain changes when adding this new dynamic feature (which I do like for a quick mix sometimes). 

Participant
May 15, 2025

Since the recent update changing the volume also changes the visual size of the audio waveform. To visualize the volume, this is OK. However, to set keyframes or cuts, this is quite difficult to handle. One can barely recognize the volume difference when the volume is set low (see attached screenshot).

 

In my opinion, it would be better to change the setting how it was ever since.

mattchristensen
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 15, 2025

@OMF International5E0A this new behavior is on by default, but you can turn it off. Go to View > Dynamic Audio Waveforms. You can also find this in the Keyboard Shortcuts so you can assign a key to it if you wan to quickly toggle it.

Participant
May 13, 2025

In the latest Premiere Pro 2025 update, reducing the audio level also causes the waveform to shrink visually, making it difficult to read and edit based on the waveform. Please consider removing this change or providing an option to disable it

 

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 13, 2025

Its not a bug, its by design.

Moved to Ideas board.