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  • After Effects can’t support videos with multiple audio tracks?

    Posted by Rob Aldred on January 11, 2014 at 11:22 pm

    Hey all.
    I’ve been using Sony Vegas to compose videos for my youtube channel, and bits of after effects thrown in.
    I wanted to try and build the entire videos in after effects, I like it so much more, however…
    I have some footage I recorded which has multiple audio tracks.

    It seems that after effects doesn’t support multiple audio tracks?

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks

    Gary Milligan replied 12 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    January 12, 2014 at 2:46 am

    AE is for compositing, not audio editing. Create your effects/composites in AE and do the audio edit in another program, and then edit them together for your final. That’s the normal workflow 99.9% of the time.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Rob Aldred

    January 12, 2014 at 3:03 am

    Ok, thanks but how do you create effects that sync with the audio then?

  • John Cuevas

    January 12, 2014 at 4:32 am

    There are some effects that can be driven by audio, and for those I might bring a scratch track into my AE timeline. Most of the time though, I work out my audio elsewhere and just make timecode notes and do it that way.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Gary Milligan

    January 12, 2014 at 6:58 pm

    You could render out your audio mix to one track and bring that into AE.

    HTH

    Gary

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