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Strange Audio problem
Hi,
I’m having a very strange audio preview problem, that just started today. I know my timeline has audio – a music track, sfx track and several VO tracks. The audio is there – I can see the waveforms, the layers are on – when I command-drag in the timeline, I can hear it. But when I RAM preview OR audio only preview, I get nothing. Nothing on the level meters, nothing from the speakers. I need to hear my audio to time my animations, and simply cannot figure this out. I checked my audio hardware prefs and it is set to “system default in/out”; I checked the sound section of system prefs, and it is set to the proper output (although at the bottom of the list is an option that says Adobe After Effects – I’ve never noticed this before – but I can’t select it. If I try it just bounces back to selecting line out) – system sounds, sound in other apps and cmd-dragging all make sound I’ve rebooted, repaired permissions, even re-installed. Nothing.
Quick update: if I render out a movie, audio is there.
I’m on a 8-core Mac Pro, 3.0Ghz, 16GB Ram, AECS3 8.0.2, Leopard 10.5.2
Thanks for any suggestions.
scott
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6 Replies
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I am assuming you shut AE and your compouter down already, and restarted, right?.
Set your audio setting back to where they were. Then, try this:
Composition > Preview > Make sure “Audio” is checked.
This is probably not the solution, but it’s worth a shot.
Thanks.
Aharon
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Aahron, thanks for the response.
Yeah I tried that stuff…
The good news is that this seems to be isolated to one particular project, which probably not co-incidentally was one of the first I did with Automatic Duck — most likely I did something wrong or some of my audio tracks were screwy. But when I opened another project, and then started a new one, the audio issues were gone.
Still a strange deal though.
Scott
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I think so – I explained everything I tried in the OP – ram preview, cmd-drag, audio preview (num pad period) etc… as I said, the only thing that worked was CMD-dragging and a full render – RAM Preview and audio-only preview were not working.
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There wasn’t any compressed audio, however, several files were DV Streams (.dv) – maybe that had something to do with it? The edit and audio was done in Final Cut and I brought it over with Automatic Duck. In the end I just ended up exporting the final audio from FCP as an aiff and all was well – but I’d still like to get to the bottom of it in case it comes up again. Thanks for the help.
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Hi everyone, this my first message here.
I have problems with my audio in AE, but a litle different than that. My audio just work’s in preview’s modes, when I’m working in the project, i can’t hear anything.
Someone can help me?
In others adobe programs audio is good. It’s just a AE audio problem.
Sorry my bad english, i’m just learning. I’m a brazilian guy!
Bryce
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Bryce,
That is the way audio works in AE – ONLY in previews and renders. It is not an editing program, so it doesn’t work like one (audio and real-time playback when you press play or the spacebar).
Again, audio is only supposed to work in previews, renders, or when you CMD(CTRL)-drag the CTI in the timeline.
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