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I am working in a multi-cam sequence for the first time and I am unable to view the audio waveforms in my project. I tried selecting "Generate Audiowave form" but I was unsuccessful. What should I do?
Hit Render Audio which is under Sequence.
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Right click the "hamburger" menu (circled in red) to the right of the Sequence name on your timeline. The Sequence Display options are on the pop-up menu that then appears ... note the audio section:
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Hi Neil,
I have those items selected but I still can't see the audio wave forms.
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Hit Render Audio which is under Sequence.
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Thank you Ann it worked! How often should I do that?
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I'll bet it's this ... go to Edit/Preferences/Audio ...
And make sure the "Automatic audio waveform generation" option is checked.
Now, go to File/Clip, and select 'Generate audio waveforms'.
Neil
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Hi Niel,
Thank you for all of your help. I hit render audio and it worked!
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I have a better "solution" to this. tl;dr below. I find this to be better simply because you don't have to wait to render, or re-render over and over. It will do it in the background, and the files can be edited over and over, gain changed, etc, without needing to re-render.
I believe this issue is caused by there being confusion over whether there is an associated .pek file, or maybe an association with a corrupt or incomplete .pek file. So I have found that you can trick Premiere into make a new one.
That should be it. Look at the bottom right of your Premiere windows to see if it's automatically generating new waveforms (generally a blue status bar). Wait till that bar is complete and tada: waveforms. They should show up immediately and automatically. I think what's happening is that this process disrupts Premiere's link between that file and any previously generated waveform information. So the incomplete or corrupt waveforms are ignored, and new ones are generated for the file in its new location. Moving the files up (as opposed to down or into a new folder in the same place) seems essential to confusing Premiere's automatic relinking process. If you've moved it sideways or down, when you click back over to Premiere from Finder, Premiere seems to be able to find it, and so nothing really happens. A couple notes from experimentation:
tl;dr
Move the associated audio files in Finder to a higher folder in the hierarchy, then relink in Premiere.
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I tried multiples tricks and renders unsuccessfully and as I am working on huge rushes like 5 hours long, that trick really saved me by being the only working one for my case. Thank you so much !
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Very happy it worked for you!