Clip Audio issues

I have been using everything just fine and used CS3 to edit last
night got pretty far along in the project and saved it and closed.
When I came back this morning all my files were offline so I tried
Linking the Media but was prompted that a problem existed. So I
started over but now every time I try to drag a video clip down
to my timeline there is no audio attached nor does it come up in
the source preview. Files work fine on all other media players.
Any ideas what is going on?

1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the forum you plan to post to.
Have searched through these and nothing that I've found has been able to solve the issue.
2. Try to find an answer by searching the Web.
Have searched the web which actually brought me to this site also.
3. Try to find an answer by reading the manual.
I have read the email and gone through all the troubleshooting and help guides attached to the program.
4. Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ.
Can't find an FAQ that has my problem on it.
5. Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.
I have been experimenting as I said in both posts and used many of the suggestions I have found and thus far I can't seem to find the problem.
6. Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend.
I actually went and asked my mentor on Premiere what he thought was the problem and we sat down for a few hours tinkering to try and figure it out and have thus far resolved nothing.
7. If you're a programmer, try to find an answer by reading the source code.
I'm not a programmer.
Now, I really am not an idiot, I get protocol for assistance with these sort of forums and I really am doing all I can on my end. I really was wondering if anyone had any further things that they thought this issue could be due to other than everything posted already in this forum for the last several pages of topics. My last attempt was to convert the file formats of the video I am working with to try and see if that would resolve the issue but it seems to be doing the same thing for every single file I put into the bin. When I drag and drop it onto my Timeline there is no audio and there isn't any when I preview it either.This is the case with M-PEG's, .movs, .avi's, and .mkv's which I had a horrendous time getting Premiere to acknowledge.
It really is an all of the sudden issue that happened within a matter of hours. Any ideas about what is behind it.

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Trying this again, having a major problem since update working with merged clips. I merge all my video and audio clips in a pre-workflow project in premiere pro. Just got my footage back from the shoot, labeled and sync'd in the project.
Because Premiere doesn't allow you to have more than 1 project open at a time, I copied the files, closed the pre-workflow project and opened my feature film project I've been working from. Copied the merged clips bin, I click on a clip, video plays fine but there's no audio playback.
I try importing the files from the pre-workflow project using the import project feature, keep only the actual merged clips (as the rest of my project is this way) still no audio. I have cleaned my media cache, reset preferences, even uninstalled premiere and redownloaded. Problem persists.
Can you help me figure out what the issue is so I can get back to making progress on finishing this feature film project?
The only thing different I've done this time that I didn't do last time was copied the audio into the bin with the video clips and merged that way. Before was putting video clips into my master audio bin and merging. But I don't see how this could possibly be the problem.

Going to try, but here is my workflow and have not encountered any problems until this last P/U days footage. I've been doing things this way because I found having all files in the project was causing it to crash constantly when I was working. I have a new I7' processor IMac with 24 gigs of RAM. And since Premiere does not allow you to have multiple projects open at the same time (Wish this would change. Avid and FCP both allowed multiple projects) I have to do things this way.
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Now I've done this workflow from just about the very beginning. Deleting all of the original source video and all audio clips from my working project so only my bins containing my merged clips remain. Have had no problems and edit has been smooth. Did a pickup day last week, followed same steps as I've done in the past, imported the merged clips into my working project and the clips have the audio set to none by default. Now once I go into the sequence I can manually set it and it's there but I cannot play audio in the source monitor which is how I edit, there's no reason I should have to go back to the crappy FCP way of editing doing the copy and paste from a sequence.

Compound clip audio issue

I record table-top games, and capture audio from an external microphone. I then sync them up into a compound clip with the camera audio muted and the good audio turned up. The problem is, whenever I go to cut up the clip (delete unnecessary bits), there is a very noticeable audio jump between cuts. Like the audio shuts off and on very quickly, even when I just make a splice and don't delete anything. I've cut up different clips using the same equipment numerous times and it has always been seamless, so I am guess that this is an issue with using compound clips. Does any one have a solution? driving me crazy.

TImecode shouldn't matter. FCP doesn't use it. Have you tried the sync function?
you can also select the video and use open in timeline, then add the audio into it to sync it.
COmpound clips shouldn't be involved.
WHat are the audio sample rates?

IMovie clips audio issue

I have digitised video in imovie 4, and have imported the files into FCP5. FCP seems to want to render the audio in each file before I can hear it.
Is there a way around this?

WEll you only have to render something one until you make a change to it. an exception would be audio in a timeline as those renders seem to have the need to rerender much more often. Personally, there is no way I would edit an iMovie captured project in FCP without some conversion. I don't know if those clips will open in compressor but if so I would convert them all to an NTSC DV file. Or you could probably batch export from FCP.

IMovie audio issues. Fine in timeline, but when rendering to iTunes or Media Browser, audio from certain portions of movie files are heard in places where it shouldn't be !

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I have created a project where I have a montage of photos and video clips edited together with music under. Some audio portions of the video files are being muted in some areas and those portions are being heard in another part of the project. This is not for all video clips only certain ones.
The project plays fine in the timeline, but when I render the project thru iTunes or Media Browser, this is when the project goes corrupt.
I tried detaching the Audio from the video clips and this somewhat worked, but the original problem still exists with certain audio still being heard where it's not supposed to be.

I have a fix - or rather, a workaround.
WARNING: It is lengthy, but still far better than starting a new project from scratch.
I had this same issue and none of my transitions/clips were at custom speeds, nor did I have anything else weird going on. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do within iMovie to fix this, at least there wasn't for me. iMovie is BY FAR the buggiest software I have ever used and if you haven't already spent hours slaving away on a project, you are so much better off using just about anything else to edit your video.
...But let's assume you have already spent many hours working on your project and you don't want to start all over. Well then, you have at least one option.
It's a pain in the neck, but it's infinitely better than restarting your project from scratch.
This will require:
A software called Soundflower (which is free) and some kind of audio editing software (I use Logic, but really any should work).
1.) You're going to need to export your video with the messed up audio. Typically if you're audio is messing up, you're video is at least usually working just fine (at least it always does for me).
2.) You're going to need to open that video in your audio software and import only the audio. If your software doesn't give you this option, then you're going to need to record the audio from your video using the audio software and Soundflower. You can find tutorials on how to do this, but it's honestly pretty straightforward once you start playing around with you Mac's audio I/O settings. Remember to have your computer's volume all the way up when doing this.
3.) Watch/listen to your video and make notes of where the audio errors occur. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND writing down times too, as they will be extremely helpful later.
4.) Now were going to rip some working audio from the iMovie project itself. Go back into your iMovie project and only play back audio while in the edit window for this step. Do NOT play your project back in full screen.
This part is key: if you try to play back your project from the beginning the audio will usually still mess up. So, what you're gonna have to do is go back on your edit window timeline right before these errors occur and play that specific clip back while recording this working audio with Soundflower and your audio software. Essentially we're only recording the parts of the audio where these errors occur, so try to do this in order if you can. Try to leave several seconds of audio in before the error - that way we can use it as reference when we construct our new audio track.
5.) Now in your audio software you should have your original error-filled audio track and the new clips that we just captured. This part can be painstaking if you're not familiar with audio editing softwares, but as you'll learn, it's really not that hard.
You're going to look at your original audio track and compare it to your new working audio clips. You should be able to notice where those new clips are supposed to go by looking at the identical (or close to identical) waveform shapes in your original audio track. The two should correspond with one another. If you don't understand what I mean right now, you will when you start playing around with the audio. This is why marking times is very important.
Take your new clips and split them up if you haven't already, that way you can drag them around and edit them separately from one another. Essentially your going to line these new clips up with original and then replace the original parts with new ones.
We need to get this as precise as possible, so start off by getting them as close as you can with your naked eye, and then use a zoom tool to zoom in as much as possible so that you can get them lined up PERFECTLY, or at least extremely close. In some softwares you can just drag these new clips on top of the old track, but most of the time you will need to actually cut out the old piece and replace it with the new one. In doing this, zoom in and make sure that you are NOT cutting out a bigger space than your new clip will fill - otherwise you will have small gaps in your audio.
VERY IMPORTANT: Also make sure that this new audio track starts at the EXACT SAME time as your original - otherwise your new audio will be out of sync.
I know this part can really suck if you're not used to audio editing, but at this point, there is little other choice.
6.) Once you are done with this, export your newly pieced together audio track.
7.) Now open iMovie and create a NEW project. Re-import the video that you exported earlier that has the messed up audio. This might take a while, so just be patient.
8.) Then right click the clip and select "Detach Audio". This will do just that - allowing you to edit the audio separately from the video. Now delete this audio.
9.) Now, import the new, perfect audio track that we just made and make sure that it starts at the start of the project. Make sure it's in sync and that everything works.
Now just export your new video with the working audio and you should be done. Since we have given iMovie the audio with no editing actually being done in iMovie, it does not have to generate its own audio now and you should have absolutely no errors now - unless there is some that you forgot to take out earlier.
YOU'RE FINALLY DONE!!!
I know this entire process *****, but if you're that far into your project, there is little else that you can do. Now you've learned your lesson:
DON'T USE IMOVIE EVER AGAIN.
I hope this helped!

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Premiere Elements 11 AVI Audio Issue

Hey there,
I'm fairly new to this software and am playing around in it to get a feel so bear with me if I'm completely overlooking the source of my problem.
When I import my video to the editor, about an 8 minute .avi clip, the video plays at regular speed but the audio sounds like it's slowed immensly. (A low growl, can't tell if it's only bass or the audio slowed to 400% about.) I've tried speeding up the clip (audio included) and it just becomes a faster version of the slow growl audio. The original video plays fine in the clip organizer and in windows media. I've tried saving, rendering, etc. but it doesn't help. Non .avi clips seem to work fine, it's just the one's from my screen recorder (which may be the issue) that 'brake.' I hope someone understands what my problem is, any misunderstandings, feel free to ask.
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Some reading that may help... and adding to the questions that have been asked
Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... A screen
shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/592070?tstart=30
For PC http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en or http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
And, since you are new to PreEl, some instruction links
Online User Guide http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/index.html
-Page to download current PDF http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements.html
Importing Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1065281
-and project settings http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1112086
Saving & Sharing http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1137128
-Sharing to DVD or BluRay http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1137645
-Sharing for Movies http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1051093
-Sharing for Computer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1058237
Steve's Basic Training Tutorials... steps are the same for several versions
-start at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/537685
-and http://tv.adobe.com/search/?q=Premiere+Elements
-be sure to click More Results at the bottom of the "tv" page
-v11 http://www.amazon.com/Muvipix-Guide-Premiere-Elements-version/dp/1479311200/
-All http://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Adobe-Premiere-Elements-Muvipix-com/dp/1451529724/
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/498626
-and http://prodesigntools.com/four-hours-free-video-tutorials-new-photoshop-elements-9-pse9.ht ml
-and http://prodesigntools.com/five-hours-free-tutorials-photoshop-and-premiere-elements-7-and- 8.html
FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere_elements/premiere_elements_faq
TIPS http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere_elements/premiere_elements_tips
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I have searched in vain for an answer to this
problem. I have a 15" Powerbook Aluminum, 1.5 Ghz G4
w/ 1.25G RAM and 10 GB available on the harddrive.
I am working with iMovie 6 with all my movie files on
a LaCie external drive connected using a FW800
connection. 195GB capacity, with about 20GB being
used up with iMovie files.
Here's my issue. When I import video alone into a
project, we have joy. When I try to add audio clips
(either AIFF or MP3), the playback slows to a crawl,
the video is severely stuttery and the audio is
distorted and plays at about half speed (like playing
a 33rpm LP at 16rpm).
If I delete the video and import the audio clips,
same issue w/slowness and distortion.
If I import the audioc clips singly, they play and
sync well with the video to a point, but there's a
threshhold at which the playback begins to degrade
and the audio issues return.
Very frustrating. Who can point me to some likely
culprits? Of, and this began happening in iMovie 5. I
was hoping iMovie 6 would solve. no joy.
Thanks all - Joel
OK - here's an update. I dumped my caches, fixed permissions, made changes to QT settings and reset the MIDI settings and the result? The audio is now running fine BUT the video is now not running (or at least ex-treme-ly sl-ooooooow-ly).
Any thoughts folks? I'd be eager to hear your input!

Loose iphone clip audio half way through

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We have been testing Premiere CS6 on our first job for the last week. However, we are running into some major audio issues:
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"Try deleting your .cfa files for the media in question, and then don't mess with the project until they are done re-conforming."
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http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/926011
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I have searched in vain for an answer to this problem. I have a 15" Powerbook Aluminum, 1.5 Ghz G4 w/ 1.25G RAM and 10 GB available on the harddrive.
I am working with iMovie 6 with all my movie files on a LaCie external drive connected using a FW800 connection. 195GB capacity, with about 20GB being used up with iMovie files.
Here's my issue. When I import video alone into a project, we have joy. When I try to add audio clips (either AIFF or MP3), the playback slows to a crawl, the video is severely stuttery and the audio is distorted and plays at about half speed (like playing a 33rpm LP at 16rpm).
If I delete the video and import the audio clips, same issue w/slowness and distortion.
If I import the audioc clips singly, they play and sync well with the video to a point, but there's a threshhold at which the playback begins to degrade and the audio issues return.
Very frustrating. Who can point me to some likely culprits? Of, and this began happening in iMovie 5. I was hoping iMovie 6 would solve. no joy.
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I have searched in vain for an answer to this
problem. I have a 15" Powerbook Aluminum, 1.5 Ghz G4
w/ 1.25G RAM and 10 GB available on the harddrive.
I am working with iMovie 6 with all my movie files on
a LaCie external drive connected using a FW800
connection. 195GB capacity, with about 20GB being
used up with iMovie files.
Here's my issue. When I import video alone into a
project, we have joy. When I try to add audio clips
(either AIFF or MP3), the playback slows to a crawl,
the video is severely stuttery and the audio is
distorted and plays at about half speed (like playing
a 33rpm LP at 16rpm).
If I delete the video and import the audio clips,
same issue w/slowness and distortion.
If I import the audioc clips singly, they play and
sync well with the video to a point, but there's a
threshhold at which the playback begins to degrade
and the audio issues return.
Very frustrating. Who can point me to some likely
culprits? Of, and this began happening in iMovie 5. I
was hoping iMovie 6 would solve. no joy.
Thanks all - Joel
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2) Maybe as a result of the above, not sure, but once exported, the whole video audio is out of sync by a few seconds. Went back and checked the project and it's all good with all the audio lining up with the clips, but export and it's out of whack
My friends are hounding me to see the video and I keep stalling, quoting some 'technical issues'.
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Just wanted to let you all know you've saved my sanity by posting on this board. Your solution - while not what I would have guessed in a million years was the problem source - fixed my video. I can't believe it was so simple! Now, if I could only get the hour(s) back where I tried to find the audio track I 'hadn't muted'...

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