• Adobe After Effects

  Error opening sound component: Solution

  Posted by Filip Vandueren on July 10, 2006 at 2:19 pm

  Just thought I’d post a solution to this problem, so people can find it in the archives:

  Problem: After Effects gives this error:

  
After Effects error: opening sound component
(-2166).

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  Princesseverything replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Princesseverything

  July 14, 2006 at 4:47 am

  using AE 5.5
  OSX 4.6
  quicktime 7.1.2

  using AE just to compress files. so i load in the quicktime, then export as quicktime (although i’ve tried rendering and run into the same problem)… i get an error message that says

  After Effects error: opening sound component
  (-2166)

  i’ve checked all the forums… the original work around was to downgrade to quicktime 6.5, which i can’t because it doesn’t work on OSX4… the other work around was to rebuild the locate database and whatis database using OnyX, which i did….

  i still keep getting that same error message…. and i don’t want to upgrade AE because i only use it to compress files… sigh….

  help! do you know anything about this???

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