Can you please post a clip of the buzzing noise? I ask because it could be a bad earth somewhere, which has a very distinctive noise to it and depending on how your monitoring is set up, it may not be audible at first. Secondly, can you please give details of your full recording chain from input all the way to the final file? ... View more

Have you tried resetting the Audio display from Rectified (the default) to Waveform, and aligning up to the peak of the slate spike? The screenshot below shows you what to change in order to get sample accurate placement rather than just frame accurate     Setting up for audio resync ... View more

It would not surprise me one bit to find that this is bang on correct, Rob. Variable Frame Rate is something that Premiere does not like to edit - come to think of it, it's not liked by any NLE that I can think of.    @ThE OP - what was the source of your footage, please? Can you download the wonderful MediaInfo & check (use text output module), posting a screenshot of the results so we can see? ... View more

This is one of the reasons (amongst others) that normalization is a really bad idea and ought to be avoided like the plague.   What you ought to be doing is using compression on each person's voice along with some decent EQ, using a HPF to eliminate rumble (which will be there, whether or not you can hear it - BTW, what are you using for monitoring?) and once you have each individual voice set so that it's absolute peak is no more than -10dBFS you then need to look at additional processing on the master buss - definitely put a limiter inline at first to protect both your ears & your monitors, set to a peak of no more than -2dBFS and you might also wish to consider further gentle compression on the master buss - ratio around 1.5:1 or 2:1 so it works as a 'glue' effect rather than more actual heavy compression.   The ratio used on each of the voice tracks will depend on the source material, but I would suggest starting at around 6:1 to 10:1 with a fast attack to catch transients quickly. Release should be slower than the attack but not too slow or too fast.   What compression plugins do you have available please?   ... View more

That's all fair enough & to the point. Let me check my archives & see what I have, and I will post back again tomorrow.   ... View more

Hey Mike. Thank you for the kind words - that just made my day. I think I know what you will be using now you have said 'LogiTech', and they are computer gamers kit rather than serious mixing kit - personally, I would say that you are going to have to spend some money here and would recommend something along the lines of Adam Audio A3-X as they have not only a superb sound (I use A7-X on my DAW and A3-X in stereo on my NLE and that ribbon tweeter they use is oh, so much smoother than any 1 or even 2" compression drivers or Titanium Tweeter devices I have ever heard.) But to use these you will also require a multichannel DAC - and again, the one built into a PC or a Mac mobo are not really up to the job. I'd recommend an 8-channel device so you have 6 channels for the 5.1 and 2 more for the dedicated stereo or the downmix. What I would recommend is down to your budget, but please trust me when I say the logitech are not going to cut the mustard.   Happy to take this off-forum and onto PM if you prefer, or we can keep it here. What I would suggest, possibly, is checking out a DAW (as you have stated) and with 'Reaper' I believe it is either free for private use or ridiculously cheap - maybe try it out for 'personal' use & if you get into it, buy a license? I use Nuendo (so if you are running Cubase it will be broadly similar) and Harrison MixBuss v7c   Once you feel sufficiently ready, maybe we can walk through setting up a project? ... View more

Hiya. Firstly, great to see yet another brave soul venture into the world of surround mixing. Sadly though there is no such guide that is worth the paper it took to plan it out, simply because there are no real 'how to mix in surround' tutorials in the manner I suspect you are looking for. What does exist are some superb technical recommendations I would striongly advise you to read. First up is the RPGA (Record Producers Guild of America) 5.1 guidelines. This will give you the basics that are required to correctly set up, calibrate & utilize your mixing setup, as well as what some of the traps & pitfalls for the unwary exist. Then it will tell you how to handle the rendering of your mixes, and I really cannot think of enough good things to say about it - you need this book. We all need this book.   The other advice I would give you is frankly Do not mix for 5.1 using Premiere! Period. At all, except for valid reasons such as checking sync (although there are better ways) or - and this is the sole reason for me - unless you need to create an AC3 file for DVD or online use (although streamed surround can be a bugger, as you must always make compromises because of downmix issues). You mention that the tutorial for PPro is 5 years old - well, so is their audio engine (as a minimum, too) so no loss there - very little will have actually changed. Use a DAW instead - Audition, Cubase, Nuendo, ProTools, Logic, Harrison MixBuss, Reaper - anything except PPro, because it's audio handling & panning in surround is not stable or solid, plus it simply isn't really designed to do this - it's an NLE. What I tend to do is bounce off an H264 mp4 file and use that in Nuendo as a sync reference. If you are worrying about audio tracks, then at the very least you can bounce each track off as a WAVE file (mono or stereo) out of PPro and rest assured things will not get out of sync at all. Cubase/Nuendo will import AAF exports from PPro as well.  If your DAW of choice cannot handle the multitrack archive format, then AATranslator is needed, and this is another tool I cannot really live without. It can convert just about any multitrack or audio platform project type into any other - I often get sent ProTools sessions and use this to make a Nuendo XML instead, and just import it. Works a treat, too.   The big problem with 5.1 mixing is that for music the main rules are basically as follows: 01 - Do not treat the LFE channel as a subwoofer. They are totally different things. 02 - Never mix on a sub/satellite system as you cannot get the bass correct 03 - Always have your 5 main channels full range from 40Hz to 20kHz as a minimum, ideally with the top end as high as 45kHz in order to deal with High Resolution content and it's pitfalls. 04 - Bandwidth limit your LFE to 80Hz with a slope of at least 36dB/Octave.   There are additional rules for film/TV mixing though, and these are also kinda important. 01 - The Centre Channel belongs to the dialogue. This is so the resulting dialogue can be dubbed into a different language (so be careful with SFX, especially background Walla) with relative ease, otherwise it would require a lot more work to do. 02 - Music can be either 4.1/4.0 or stereo - again, if there is any dialogue over the music, avoid centre channel. If the timing works, you could use a 5.1 music track, but the odds are you will be upmixing from stereo if you want music in the rear channels. There is a good argument to be made that the score should only ever be in stereo but as with all these 'rules', they mean less than nothing in most cases. 03 - SFX/Walla can be used in all 4 channels but again, avoid using them in the Centre as it is reserved for the dialogue.   The one golden rule we all work to? If it sounds right, then it is right.   What, exactly, would you like to know? I would need to know what experience you have in 5.1/surround, as well as what tools you have available. Let's get you happening! ... View more

Thank You, Ann. Where did you find it in the KC list, please - all I could find was something odd - see screenshot below. Your KC works perfectly (although I would like to know where the other set came from) ... View more

Project Settings? Export Settings? OS? (Mac/PC) Computer Specs? The more info you can give us the better, otherwise we are effectively asking 'How long is a piece of string'. ... View more

Has anything on the computer changed? The message that the Intel Hardware Encoding is not available suggests something has changed ... View more

Do you only have the one SSD in your setup please, and is it a Mac or a PC and - more importantly - how much space you have got on the SSD? This is important - not too sure how Mac works but with a PC you are running everything from the same HDD and you will get these problems, because you have all the following running from one HDD: OS, Application, Swap File, Render Output - you are thrashing the bejesus out of the poor old SSD, and I would absolutely recommend getting a fast external HDD running either USB3/Thunderbolt or better if available to spread the load & give the computer something to work with. Can you also please let us know what the resolution & full details are of your source files? If you are resizing (zooming or scaling) then using 'Maximum Render Quality' - which is absolutely recommended if using any scaling options - then this can add considerably to the render times. Finally, what engine are yoyu using for the x.264? The AME or a (superior) 3rd party one such as x264 Pro or TMPGEnc 264 for Premiere Pro? The more information you can give us the better please, but my best guess from the info we have is a lack of HDD space for the computer to properly function ... View more

Let's give this a try. You obviously understand the Stereo Pan Law, and why it is used so I'll leave that out of it (unless someone wants me to add this?) but in a 5.1/Multichannel mix you should be able to set this in the panner. Are you using the hopelessly inadequate panner in Premiere Pro? I ask because in Audition there is an option to set the Pan Law in the 'Properties/Mixing' tab as per the screenshot - it is better than PPro, but still hopelessly clunky to work with.   https://www.audio-digital.net/a-pages/audio-pan-law.html   I can also recommend this as a good starting point for the Premiere panners: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/premiere-pro/using/panning-balancing.html   Please let me know if you need more, but if so please will you include what you are using & the OS? ... View more

I appreciate the comments, Neil - I really do. But here's my reasoning for not going to W10 on my main workstation - not only will I lose an awful lot of very expensive software (again - this also happened when my DAW stopped handling 32-bit), but that was then & it cost me in excess of £20,000 by the time I had set up a new DAW and totted up the cost of the tools that were unavailable in 64-bit because of thieves (they call themselves 'hackers', but they are thieves pure and simple) uploading cracked versions of their tools and literally forcing them into bankruptcy. The list is quite staggering. I also found that a lot of things would not install to W7. Add to this my DAW (the CPU alone cost me £1500) cannot be configured for W10 at all according to the system builders.  Moving right along, I have an NLE setup running W10 and I loathe this OS so much it is simply not funny. £4,000 purchase price with W10 Professional, and after less than a week there was a forced update to the OS that I literally could not put off - for some reason this is all no longer allowed, and indeed accorduing to Microsoft the versions of W10 that do allow updates to be refused is also 'EOL' - and when the PC restarted it had been turned into an expensive Boat Anchor. One lengthy call to the builders got me a support tech who literally told me this is far from being uncommon and I had to re-install the whole OS from scratch, mobo drivers, applications - the whole 9 yards. I seriously object to being forced into updates I do not want to install. As for W7 being EOL, again this is not strictly true - I have bought 'extended EOL system support' from Microsoft, who have made this available because of the large number of corporate setups still running W7 (my local Hospital is still running on Windows 2000!!!) and with no intention of 'upgrading' when the 64-bit OS they are running is already perfectly good enough - when we went from XP to W7 (I avoided both Windows Yuppie Flu and the dreadful Vista altogether) I understood because of the whole 64-bit thing (I still run an old XP system for DVD-Audio authoring, as the Sonic/MEI software was designed to run on W2000 and it was pure luck it also ran on XP - but post XP because MS changed the way XML files are handled an awful lot of authoring companies who went to Windows ME and Vista literally upgraded themselves out of the game completely.   As for the way W10 works, I find it cumbersome and irritating - it's like living with your parents with the constant nagging, forced updates 'for my safety' and the MS App adverts I cannot as yet find a way to disable.   Anyway - in closing for now, I can again connect to the servers so all is again well for me - it turned out I needed to run an MS utility called 'Easy Fix' because Adobe changed the TLS requirements and I was unaware of this. But I am not going to put my DAW/Blu-ray authoring system to W10 - this will cause me to lose far, far too much very expensive software I use on a daily basis that has no W10 equivalent for the same reason posted earlier - out of business companies because of hackers & thieves ... View more

YAY!   John, I owe you a nice bottle of Single Malt. Easy Fix did the trick ... View more

Thanks John. Attempting the Windows Update option now. Also D/L the easy fix one ... View more

Yah - format the drive. That's no help really (although I appreciate the suggestion) as it is way, way too much aggravation.   EDIT The aggravation is having to reinstall an OS, reactivate stuff that uses C2V and online authorization - plus, how can I format the drive & install (again) CS6 if I cannot access the activation servers? I would lose far, far too much I cannot currently use CS6 - it does not work on W7 at all any longer with anything bought & paid for by Adobe   Methinks it is time to look elsewhere than Adobe.   ... View more

I feel your pain, I really do. I tried to keep a system on W7 but now I find I cannot launch anything, I get a screen telling me I cannot connect to the activation servers & if I hit any of the options in said screen I get a VERY odd web page indeed, not in English at all. My account is not hacked, and there is no stolen software on my setup - I simply cannot now even launch PPro on W7 as I cannot activate it, despite having an activation available, because I cannot connect to the damned servers. ... View more

I also really don't like the latest overhaul - it's a shambolic mess. ... View more

Hi Ann. I tried that - it did not make any difference at all. Same options or lack thereof. What has made a difference is an update to the plugin, followed by my jumping through various hoops to foll PPro into allowing me to set a bitrate - before I turn off the multiplexer (the output is for Scenarist BD, and that requires elementary streams) so I think I have found a workaround.   I freely admit that the latest build of Premiere is a shambolic mess - I get different options using File/Export Media compared to hitting the EXPORT tab, stuff I used to have available is now missing altogether and there are hundreds of uselsss presets I have no need for that will not go away. I hate W10, and I loathe the latest PPro. It's not going well. ... View more

@ann Advanced only gets me the option to add an I-Frame at Chapter Markers, and nothing else if I am using Blu-ray option. @richard - that encoder is useless, which is why I have been using x264 engine. When Adobe stopped W7, I lost thousands of pounds worth of stuff (thanks, Guys) including my best encoder. Now I cannot even activate on W7 any more and since the change of design in PPro to the 'export' tab I have lost the Blu-ray bitrate settings with this plugin. The MainConcept encoder Adobe use is just not nearly good enough   This is desperately important as I appear to be unable any longer to activate or even get to the servers on W7, which has encoders on it (expensive ones) that work, whereas the current PPro has changed something.   UPDATE It seems that now there is an updated version of the TMPGEnc plugin that fixes an issue introduced by Adobe on the last PPro update. ... View more

@William24548937526z  What audio hardware are you using please, out of sheer curiosity? Also are you on Mac or PC, ASIO or MME if the PC?   @Ann When you say 'Make sure Default Input in the Audio Hardware in the Preferences is set to No Input', where on earth is that hiding please? It's certainly not there on my W10 setup (and how I loathe W10 too) - see screenshot attached   Headphones works fine for me.... ... View more

The audio track in the sequence is indeed a 5.1. BUT (you knew this one was coming, of course) - is the sequence itself set to a 5.1 master? Also, do you have a 5.1 output set up on your sound card so the Adobe Audio mapper can access it? Once you can hear what should be there in your studio monitors correctly, the ProRes will render correctly using PCM. This is infinitely preferable to Dolby Digital AC3 and should be the standard deliverable form too, IIRC.   So first up, make sure your hardware is correctly set to a 5.1 system in Edit/Preferences/Audio (and Audio Hardware), then make sure your sequence is using a 5.1 master - otherwise (and this is what I suspect is occurring here) your 5.1 mix will downmix according to parameters you did not set up, and either A - doing this badly, or B - just sending front left/right & ignoring the rest.   I'll keep an eye on this thread and jump back in if necessary. Surround is great. ... View more

Looking at your waveform, adding extra gain is the last thing you want to do here as it appears your peaks are already up at or very near to 0dBFS. What you need is a compressor, my friend. I would set this up so that it is only applied to the individual clip that needs to be louder though.   Is it a voice track or something else? Does it have it's own fader in the Mixer, or is it part of a larger picture? The more details you can give about your project and it's layout the better, please - but we will almost certainly be introducing you to the wonder drug that is compression. ... View more

Cannot post the image - it's under copyright restrictions until the product gets released, so sorry but no can do. You'll have to take my word for it that the results are superior resizing a smart object - perhaps it is the vector nature?   I just rechecked in W10 in light of the info above and with the link on I can indeed resize without the shift key pressed - I also rechecked on the old version, with the link enabled it does not maintain Aspect Ratio, and the shift key is required to maintain ratio. So it seems that an old bug has been fixed - truly amazing. I had no clue, and this is comparatively recently fixed too, as I am pretty certain I used the 'old' way recently - it became a habit with the old 'link' button being absolutely unreliable - my graphics editor has just confirmed this too.   Thanks for your assistance here - greatly appreciated. ... View more

I had no idea - when did this change? Information much appreciated.     ... View more

1 - Bicubic Automatic 2 - I have the link icon pressed - make no mistake - but even with holding down shift key, I can drag a corner of the image and it does. not. hold. the. aspect. ratio. Screen shot attached. It is as if the SHIFT key is not pressed at all.   Thank you for the facts about the preference - I had no idea that 'Bicubic Automatic' would use anything except the 'reduction' appropriate algorithm (Bicubic Sharper)   This post is really only for the bug report now, because I can do the work on a Windows 7 system which still works the same way. I thank you for the info though - most interesting. What algorithm does resizing (smaller) a smart object use? ... View more