• Adobe After Effects

  Clip Notes ruins my audio

  Posted by Chip Maynard on September 23, 2007 at 8:17 pm

  Has anyone had any luck exporting to Clip Notes?

  I’ve got standard DV project (720×480, 48khz 16bit stereo) that I’m trying to pass along to my client for review using the awesome new Clip Notes feature.

  I’m using AE CS3 on a 17″ MBP. Everything seems to go along as expected, the pdf is created and opens correctly, but when I playback the embedded file, the audio sounds absolutely horrible. Sort of a like it’s underwater running through a flanger/phaser – completely unacceptable.

  I tried to see if there were some settings I could adjust, but there isn’t anything very advanced available.

  According to the Export settings it’s creating a QT format file
  29.97fps
  QDesign Music 2, 48khz, Stereo
  CBR 800 kbps

  I confirmed this by playing the file in Quicktime and checking the info settings:
  QDesign Music 2, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
  H.264 Decoder, 640 x 480, Millions

  I also tried rendering out the project to an uncompressed QT file, which works perfectly and sounds great. Then I brought that file back into AE and tried to render to Clip Notes from that finished file – but I got the same results.

  I’ve tried a few different files of differing formats, but the results are always the same. Good video – horrendous audio.

  Is anyone else experiencing this, or is it just me??

  FWIW, I do have Photoshop, Encore, Flash and Bridge installed from the CS3 suite as well.

  Chip Maynard replied 18 years, 7 months ago 17,750 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chip Maynard

  September 24, 2007 at 8:25 pm

  When you select EXPORT, it automatically loads it with the Clip Notes settings in the Render Queue, so there really isn’t a non-render queue method. You can also select Clip Notes as a file type if you don’t use the export.

  Either way, you end up with your comp in the queue.

  I’ve been trying to post to Adobe’s forum, but it seems to be down today.

  Clip Notes would be a really great feature if the audio wasn’t so bad.

  -Chip
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  Chip Maynard

  September 24, 2007 at 10:26 pm

  That’s the rub.

  You can see all the settings, but they aren’t changeable. At least not on my install.

  The only audio settings you can change are stereo/mono and the bit rate (from 8khz – to above 48) I had it set to 48khz. That’s it – no other options in audio settings.

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