That means the audio conform files link is broken. Where are your media cache files stored and is this Mac or PC?

Eric

ADK

The Conform files are the audio files you see in the timeline. Those are the files that are broken. Go to your Media cache directory and select all. Delete all the files in there. Open Premiere and let it rebuild the media cache audio conform files. See if that fixes it.

Eric

ADK

Create a new Media Cache folder on a different drive. Repeat the process to Delete the Media Cache by going to the current folder and manually dealing them. Go into AE or AME and change the current Media Cache folder to the new location. Then close AME or AE and Open your Project. Also when you change the Database folder and it asks you if you want to move or delete select delete btw.

Eric
ADK

Also if you right click on a red track and "Reveal in Project" it still links to the working file in the bin.

Funky Bug,

Looking at all the red audio tracks, they are all "un-linked" to video, ether wave/mp3 or from a multi-camera sequence were the audio track was un-linked and put in to all of the audio tracks.

Thanks for your help and thougths, but I am still having issues, I need to just keep working, deadlines and all, hope it will still works tomorrow.

Still having the same issues? Just today I had the same exact problem.

Audio is red and now won't play on the timeline, but will play in the project folder in the viewer.

Audio file is a wav file, not an audio file from a video clip.

Was working 100% fine earlier today.

I converted a wave file to a mp3 and it seems to work, but I still have to replace a few audio tracks everytime I open a project.

Are any of you on SSD drives?

Haven't this exact problem. Very very strange, have tried all the above steps to no avail.

It seems if I open one project A and copy / paste into project B, all works until I save/ close/ reopen. Then all of the audio files are red and don't play. On initial paste it looks/plays fine.

Driving me nuts..

On another project my transitions and fades are gone, and if I copy a timeline clip with transitions into that project it doesn't copy with the transitions.. AHH!

that happens to me too but i solve thise problem

i notic that this pug caused by the latest update of premiere

to solve this problem

keep your projects as it is & dont try to alter it

remove premiere from your system or remove your system & set up new one

instal permiere cs6.0 (which you downloaded  the original one with no updates )

refuse to update your program if you asked to

open your projects & it will open intact with no problems

i hope this be helpful

I have just come across the same problem. I've put together a short video demonstration of the problem in hopes that someone who knows what to look for might be able to discern what is going on when this happens.

*edit: The narration gets cut off at the end of the video, but all I go on to say is that the problem is only with audio, never video, even when the audio is natively linked to video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeqnqM0FgiE&feature=youtu.be

File type does not seem to play any role. Wav, Mov, and MP3 behave the same. Audio that is attached to video and standalone audio behave the same.

I have copy/pasted sequences and footage without issue many times in the recent past. The problem is new.

The only change to my system that could possibly have an effect is my recent upgrade from the trial version of CS6 to a licensed, rental version under the Creative Cloud. But because I had already installed Premiere Pro for the trial, there was no need to reinstall the program. I believe one update was downloaded sometime in the last week, as well.

I have tried deleting all files in the Media Cache folder and all files in the Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files folder in hopes that Premiere Pro would 'rebuild' the conformed audio files once I reopened the projects, but this has not seemed to have any effect.

Thanks for that video JakeBowen, that is perfect.

I have given up on any fix, I have to rebuild the opening sequence for each show, copy and paste will not work with sound.

I tried Match Frame. Before performing Match Frame, the audio displays as unlinked in the Source window (next to Effects Controls). After the operation, it reloads the footage with the waveform and all in the Source window, but remains unlinked in the timeline. So, still no dice.

ECBowen sounded like he was on to something with getting Premiere to rebuild the conform files, but because it's such a background process I'm finding it difficult to be certain I've properly cleared everything. Is there a way to set a new Media Cache folder as you would the scratch disk folder?

Thanks for the responses, everyone.

Sweet Lord in Heaven, I think that worked. ElJayBronx, you may have saved us all.

For those still struggling:

1. Open the project you wish to bring files into (the "B" project).

2. Select File>Import, then choose the Premiere Project that you wish to copy files from (the "A" project).

3. You will be promted to choose whether to import the entire project or individual sequences. I selected the individual sequence that contained the files I need. Click 'OK'.

4. As an added bonus, all the copied files are automatically placed into a bin for you. Double-click the sequence file and it should all be there.

Spread the word, everybody, and thanks again, ElJayBronx. You deserve a trophy.

You can actually thank Avanish from Adobe Tech Support for that one, I'm just the messenger. It did take nearly TWO HOURS to get to the solution, with so many unlikely scenarios considered during the troubleshooting, and was just a step that we tried along the way, but it clicked in and worked.

I guess that the way Premiere populates the XMP file that underlies a project changed in the CS6 iteration of the program, and one of the changes made it lose track of the data from an edited sequence (TONS of keyframes, trims etc. in those clips!) when the copy/paste analogy is used. It's sort of like if you are making an electronic car payment from your bank to the car finance company. You could (method A) send it from your checking account, or you could (method B) go into the finance company's website, give it your checking account information and have it take the information. Imagine if one day you made a payment using method A and your bank shows having sent the payment but the finance company never gets it...that, like this, would be a bug and would need fixing! Of course in that case the $$$ went somewhere so the parties could trace it; in this case the payload stays in both places so it's harder to see where the trouble is.

Anyway, I'm glad it got worked around and I believe that affected clips in many if not most cases can be replaced with the good material by using "replace with clip|from bin", one of the more time-saving features of PPro.

Hi Abhishek,

Thanks for your advice, it worked like a charm. I was able to select all & then right click etc etc and it fixed the problem globally very quickly.

David

Just spent a couple of hours troubleshooting this problem. I must say it is disappointing to find out that Adobe has known about this bug for about half a year. Does not exactly install confidence in that it is meant as a professional tool.

Right clicking and changing the Source Audio channels fixes the problem, but is a cumbersome solution once we are talking about dozens of clips. (Edit: it is possible to change the Audio Channels on multiple clips at once.)

As a follow up question - is there a tool that can conform/check/correct the project xml files that Premiere generates?

Coming from FCP, I really miss the "relink" function — so good to use for troubleshooting or updated/re-rendered footage.