.wav won't play in Premiere CS4

	.wav won't play in Premiere CS4 by Chuck Rosenecker on Aug 6, 2009 at 4:41:42 pm Hey all, We're having a problem with Premiere CS4 not playing wave files. The waves were recorded with a Marantz portable recorder and will play in the QuikTime Player or on our Avid systems, but not in Premiere. They will import and you can hear them when scrubbing the clip, but the wave will not "play" or allow itself to be dropped into the sequence. The system is a Dell 490 Precision WS (quad core), 4 GB ram, and a AJA Xena LH series I/O card. Any ideas on a solution would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance, RowZ Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: .wav won't play in Premiere CS4 by Vince Becquiot on Aug 6, 2009 at 5:07:04 pm Will it play at regular speed in the source windows, or simply when scrubbing? Have you tried dragging it below the master track, thus creating a new matching track? If none of that worked, can you give more details, sample rate, bit rate, etc. ? Vince Becquiot Kaptis Studios San Francisco - Bay Area Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: .wav won't play in Premiere CS4 by Chuck Rosenecker on Aug 6, 2009 at 7:13:17 pm ok . . . The wave in the source window displays waveform, but the only audio comes from scrubbing the track. It won't "play" at all. The clip won't drag at all. If you attempt to insert the clip using in/out marks, the sequence shifts media on the existing time-line, creating blank space where the wave should have been inserted. Most of the video was shot on HDV and imported via FireWire using Premiere's Capture Tool. Some video is SD imported SDI using the provided AJA QuickTime Codec within the capture tool. The .wav is a standard 16 bit, stereo PCM . . . nothing that wouldn't play on granny's laptop at home. We have imported it into SoundBooth, re-saved it as a .wav with the same end result. We have imported into an Avid Adreneline and exported a Quiktime with the same result. . . BUT, music ripped from CD has been working and audio captured with SD video (SDI) has come in clean. There have been no issues with the HDV media captured using FireWire. We are relative novices to the Premiere System, and have had problems in the past matching preferences (Capture, Playback and Sequence) to generate a stable work-flow. I suspect we may be in this shadowed land again, as other edit systems in our plant recognize and play the track. Hope this helps fill in the blanks. Thanks again, Chuck Rosenecker Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: .wav won't play in Premiere CS4 by Vince Becquiot on Aug 6, 2009 at 10:19:27 pm It's possible that Soundbooth exported without any changes. Try exporting as AIF from Soundbooth instead. Vince Becquiot Kaptis Studios San Francisco - Bay Area Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: .wav won't play in Premiere CS4 by Jon Barrie on Aug 6, 2009 at 10:58:38 pm I agree with Vince. If you can get the file to play in Soundbooth then export as Uncompressed AIF. I have a feeling the original PCM is not truely Uncompressed and Premiere is having an issue with it. Are there other settings on the audio recorder you could experiment with and see if Premiere likes one of them so you don't need to convert in the future. (not that is takes all that long). - JB Jon Barrie aJBprods www.jonbarrie.net Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index