Audio missing from Merged Clips

Okay, editing a feature film on Premiere CC. Just imported a project into my working project that contained the merged clips I created using my video (Red footage) and 2nd source audio. Files had been all renamed in Premiere to match scene/shot numbers. Kept only the merged clips, deleted everything else from working project folder, as I had for all the other clips that work perfectly fine. Edited the new clips last night, working perfectly.
Reopened project this morning to continue working, and now all of the clips have dead tracks as in no audio. The actual tracks are there, but there's no sound. I doubled clicked on just the audio track in the clip in the sequence and it's red in my source window.
How can I fix this?

I'm using the same workflow and reproduced the bug in 7.2.1. The issue is cut & paste of the merged clip.
After merging audio and video clips I would select the newly merged clip in the project bin, hit cut, select a different bin, and hit paste. The merge clip gets moved to the new bin, but also gets corrupted. From now on, the merged clip is missing audio information. When placed on the timeline, audio tracks are colored red and show no wavefrom. Even "Link media" can't properly associate the merged clip with the audio again.
To reproduce the bug, It's not necessary to delete the original clips that were merged, nor is it necessary to save and reload the project. After cutting & pasting the merged clip is damaged immediately.
Easiest workaround for now is to use drag & drop to move the merged clips to a different bin. That does not corrupt the files.
Hopefully a staff member can notice this thread and report the bug to development.

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So, I have hand-synced quite a few clips for a project, and made sub clips by dragging everything into a bin.
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Now, after merging them, when I drag them into a new sequence to edit, the audio contains 25 channels, and the vast majority of them are blank… there is only audio on track 1,7,13,19 and 25.
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thanks for then pointer.
Seems others have had this problem.
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I think I may have confused you a little bit, sorry. Hope this might be easier to follow.
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Dell Precision T1500 / Windows 7 Professional 64-bit OS, no pen or touch input
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Thanks for all this information, T.
So why are you editing a 1440x1080 video in a 1920x1080 project? If this is AVCHD footage, it's very important to use the right project settings.
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Tom Wolsky wrote:
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Steve Jobs <[email protected]>
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