• Adobe After Effects

  Audio error w/quicktime imports

  Posted by Andrew Potter on November 18, 2005 at 3:52 pm

  When I import a QT file with audio, when I render (preview and make movie) I get an audio error “After Effects error opening sound component (-2166)”
  The preview still plays with audio, and I get the error intermittently, but if definitely will not render as an output.

  Is there a better way to import a movie with audio?

  All this with:

  G5 w/2GB SDRAM; 2.7GHz
  QT 7.0.3
  AE 5.5
  QT mov w/Sorenson3; 48KHz (or 44.1; consistent w/AE comp)

  Stevev replied 20 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  November 18, 2005 at 3:58 pm

  I’ve found that AE doesn’t like importing Sorenson. Try Animation, Photo-JPEG or a TGA sequence.

  Steve
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  Andrew Potter

  November 18, 2005 at 4:08 pm

  Good advice, however I get the same results on audio files only, uncompressed.
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  Robert Morris

  November 18, 2005 at 5:55 pm

  I’ve gotten a similar error if my sound card is doing other things as well, such as playing MP3s, or even if I had opened up the Quicktime player and played a clip with sound while AE was open. I’m on a PC running Windows XP and my sound is just onboard Legacy drivers. Let me know if you solve your problem.
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  Stevev

  November 22, 2005 at 6:37 pm

  I am having the same problem.

  Still no solution over here.

  have you found an work around?

  The .AIF files I am importing and working with in AE are just

  16:44:1:none

  let me know

  stevev-

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