I always use a hard limiter on final exports and have up until now never had an issue. I apply this feature to all channels to boost overall volume and prevent clipping at the default -0.1db.

However, on my latest project the audio for the whole timeline gets stuck at what looks like exactly -4.5db even when the input boost is raised to a ludicrous 50db (see attached image).

Of course that's not a bad level but for some social platforms it's advantageous to boost your levels a little higher due to their compression. Any idea on why this might be happening or what I can do to fix this? Again this is the first time i've encountered this problem and the hard limiter usually allows me to boost the volume to the default -0.1db setting.

Thanks!

I currently have an i9-10900k with an RTX 3090 and 64GB of DDR4 memory. Our SAN has insane throughput. But Premiere's Audio Effects seem to really bog Premiere down.

I currently got off the phone with a technician who basically reiterated what you've mentioned so far - number of effects and number of audio clips gets higher and higher seem, the end-user will inevitably experience exponential slowdown.

I'm on a 25 minute edit, There's a 8 tracks of dialogue (not including music and SFX) with a lot of edit points. With 4 effects (parametric EQ, Dynamic Processing (Soft Limit), Single-band Compressor (voice limiter), and denoise, playback takes up to 30 seconds to respond.

Would love for Adobe to optimize Premiere to utilize more available computing resources to speed up audio processing. While waiting to play, my CPU and Memory usage only go up to 30%. I don't know what revamping or coding that requires but the audio effects in Premiere work pretty great, and for 1 day turnarounds for long edits (1, 2 hours), being able to stay within Premiere and avoid roundtripping or exporting exports of exports would be a huge plus.

When editing things that involve audio, I like to listen to the changes in real-time as I adjust settings such as audio compression and filters.

Normally when stopping the clip that is being edited, the settings are preserved and continue to be set when playing the clip again.

Recently, the effects that I set during playback reset to default (or previous setting) upon stopping the clip. For example, I use an FFT filter to adjust the response of dialogue in recordings. I like to listen to the audio at the same time as editing the filter and getting settings right to my ears. When stopping the clip the filter returns to default, having me have to start the process again.

I'm unsure when what I can only assume is a bug had begun, but I could speculate it was with a recent update to 22.6.

Strangest thing. I was finding that my exports were not matching my timeline. Out of nine tracks of audio, an entire track would simply not exist in my export.

I finally traced it to the "mute" keyframes option. But that usually affects timeline playback as well. Truthfully I NEVER use the the Mute keyframe function. (Not sure why I would use it). But this isn't the first time the function has spontaneously turned on (or off, depending on your point of view). I see in various forum threads it is both a little too easy to apply a mute keyframe AND hard to diagnose why your audio is turning on and off
Still very strange it only affects the export ...unless there's something about its function I don't understand.

Please add side-chain support for third party plug ins that already have it as a feature. I don’t want to round trip to audition. I don’t like using audition tbh. And I don’t always need to do a full pro tools mix. It would be nice to be able to use it during a rough mix or quick final mix while in premiere.

Side-chain is where you use a virtual signal bus (fx send) between tracks to have a plug in, like a compressor, look at one track to engage parameters while affecting the track that it’s on. This would be a more precise and better sounding audio ducking than your auto ducking feature which just turns the track down with keyframes. Please consider allowing already existing side-chain on third party plugins the ability to route properly and work with Premiere Pro. Thanks.

Out of nowhere, a file that was good, now randomly makes actually deafening noise. Not exaggerating. Really hurt you kind of loud!

I can change audio devices and sometimes it fixes the problem until I cut a track or move a clip. Some clips won't give the noise, then when I move them, they do.

If I turn down the volume almost all of the way, so that it doesn't hurt me, then audio that was at nice hot levels is now so quiet, you can't hear it.

I've tried restarting, resetting Premiere preferences, running under Rosetta, The beta version, turning off effects and it's all doing this. I can export the noisy clips and they sound fine in The Finder preview. I had the same issue on this file on another computer.

Edit:

It looks like I basically figured it out ... it was because I was using the "channel mixer" panning effect on audio files that had only one (left) channel.

I had to batch-process hundreds of files, making them mono.

Something very strange is that even after taking off the panning plugin, then the noise glitch still remained until I replaced the files with mono ones. The original audio files played fine in very other app.

This is still very serious.
There's no way to describe how loud this was. I think I probably actually lost some of my hearing.