• Adobe After Effects

  RAM Preview Audio Not Playing

  Posted by Nolan Beguhl on February 21, 2011 at 10:09 pm

  I feel like there’s some sort of easy solution to this, but I cannot play my audio in RAM preview. I can play only the audio, but not the audio and video together. My audio is not MP3 format, it’s AIFF, so I doubt that’s the issue.

  Any help is greatly appreciated.

  John Mitchell replied 15 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kevin Camp

  February 21, 2011 at 10:11 pm

  in composition>preview make sure that audio is enabled (has a check next to it).

  Kevin Camp
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  John Mitchell

  June 16, 2011 at 8:44 am

  Ok – sorry to re-hash an old thread but this may come in handy for a lot of people as it seems to be a common complaint 🙂

  I ran into this problem today – I had a pre-comp which was playing audio correctly and then in the master comp the audio was muted. The layer audio was definitely turned on and no keyframes applied. WT…?
  The clue was the audio would play if I solo’d the layer. So I started turning other layers off until I found the culprit!

  Because I was using the same pre-comp in a number of different cuts in the main timeline it turns out the if ANY instance of that pre-comp has a time re-map effect on it and appears in the comp and that time re-map effect includes a freeze (mine did – I haven’t tested but i suspect any time-remap will have the same effect) then all the audio for any layer with that pre-comp gets muted. The solution is simple – turn of thaudio for the layer with the time re-map effect on it (after all it appears you can’t use time-remapped audio in AE anyway:)

  I’m not sure if this is documented anywhere but i couldn’t see it in the help file – really audio should only be muted for the time remapped layer (so it is a bit of a bug) but there you go – problem solved!

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