Audio Slowed Down After Importing to Premiere Pro

[Guest]

After I Import a video into Premiere Pro the audio is slower than normal. I was able to fix this by speeding it up to 900%, but I only have a few seconds of audio because most of it was cut off. So my question is, how can I stop the audio from getting slowed down?

[ngbruno]

Rename the file extension to .AVI and will work! cheers

[Ben5E43]

Interesting!

[royGvisuals]

Anytime I've ran into this issue I just convert the file to .mp4 using Handbrake. I'm not sure why this free program can handle it better than Adobe, but once it's converted you'll have a working source file to edit! Deff recommended! https://handbrake.fr/

[defaultdrrtohq350a0]

Can confirm using Handbreak (free software) converting the tiktok/IGTV file to MP4 will go around the issue when importing to premier...  Thanks Roy!

[sophiem44736004]

hey everyone - i am working on a project which is combined lots of different phone clips, i've got frame rates all over the shop from 23.99 (seemingly audio is fine), 24.03 (is slowed down), 29.42 seemed to be working, one at 30fps is fine, one at 30fps is slowed down - seems random. I have tried converting these in encoder and hand brake, into MP4, MP3, Wav, for some reason it's not fixing any of them at all. Is there something I could be doing? Would be unbelievably grateful if anyone could help me get to the bottom of this! Thanks 🙂

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi Community,

Currently, the best solution for your variable frame rate footage is to convert it in Shutter Encoder or Handbrake. I prefer Shutter Encoder these days, but Handbrake will work if you don't mind .mp4 only exports. Shutter Encoder supports both .mp4 and pro editing codecs, like ProRes, so I prefer that.

Be it .mp4 or ProRes: it depends what your needs are, what your system can work with best, and what you prefer for your workflow.

The question is, "why can't Premiere Pro handle variable frame rates?" The short answer is that Shutter Encoder and others use FFMPEG open source encoders and decoders, while Adobe uses proprietary ones. I branched off those posts that had questions about that here.

If you would like Adobe to use tech to handle the conversion of these formats better, here is one of the better feature request I found that you can upvote: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/34370416-handle-variable-fr...

If you have other problems related to variable frame rate issues with audio like the OP had, please feel free to create a brand new post. This post has been answered, is a legacy post, and has a feature request you can upvote so we will lock it to avoid any undue confusion as to the current status of this issue. Thanks!

Regards,
Kevin