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  • error codes explained?

    Posted by T Joanson on January 6, 2006 at 4:33 pm

    Maybe this is wrong forum to put this question. If so I beg your pardon. If not:
    Trying to find explanation to error codes in after effects. Having problems with “opening soundmodule” (-2166). Any ideas where to find them? Many thanks
    /k

    Mhla Sandra replied 20 years, 5 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Tim Kurkoski

    January 6, 2006 at 8:11 pm

    Other than a search on Google, no.

    When are you getting the error?

  • T Joanson

    January 6, 2006 at 8:25 pm

    Thanks for resopnding.
    So far I havent found anything via google…
    It occurs quite often when opening the waveform of a soundlayer and always when scrubbing (cmd+drag). Thus I can’t work with sync between audio and image other than just guessing where to put keyframes.
    /k

  • Jim Kanter

    January 6, 2006 at 10:00 pm

    Have you tried reinstalling the software?

  • Tim Kurkoski

    January 9, 2006 at 6:51 pm

    If reinstalling AE fails, try reinstalling and/or updating the drivers for your sound card.

    Where did the file come from? It’s possible that AE may have problems reading the codec that the audio is in.

  • Greg Neumayer

    January 15, 2006 at 12:46 am

    I guess the good news is that this is a known issue. You’re probably using Quicktime version 7.0.3, or as I unfortunately discovered today ver. 7.0.4 is also subject to the problem. You’ll need to downgrade back to 7.0.1. Apple has created a downgrader (admitting the problem, but apparently not fixing it in this latest version of quicktime). You can get it here:
    https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime701reinstallerforquicktime702.html

    -Greg

  • T Joanson

    January 15, 2006 at 1:27 pm

    Great! Thank you Greg for the tip. It works fine after reinstalling QT 7.0.1. Thanks all of you that took precious time to look in to my dilemma.
    /Tomas

  • Mhla Sandra

    March 11, 2006 at 12:16 pm

    hello everybody
    i’m having the same problem with AE, but I have a Windows XP system, sp2 included, with quick time 7.0.3 and I wasn’t able to find the reinstaler for windows…
    Thank you a lot for your answers

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