AE won’t render with audio?

[Don Days]

Is your audio file an mp3? If so try a .wav file.

Don Days
Editor/Graphic Artist
FixedInPost.com

[Silver Adamson]

Nope, all the audio files are .wav format and off the Designer Sounds FX collection, which i recently acquired.

I’m continuously trying to solve the problem myself, but if anyone has any ideas, i’d be most thankful.

[Silver Adamson]

Well the audio format is PCM, if that’s what i should be looking for here. Not really familiar with this, i tried eliminating different parts, and the audio is really the only thing seeming to cause this glitch.

I don’t know, could it be in the settings? I’m using all the defaults although.

[Russ Moore]

Maybe render out the visuals without audio, then the audio as a .WAV, and then combine the two files in After Effects for a final render…

…not really solving the problem, but it might be a temporary work around.

[Silver Adamson]

Yeah, i’ve tried that, and as i’ve said many times, rendering without the audio everything is okay, but when i try to render audio with the comp or just as a single file, it won’t start rendering. I can’t seem to imagine how that is caused by any of the video files. But thank you.

[Silver Adamson]

I’ll have another look at the files, and i’ll have another go at the output settings. Yeamh, i’d be happy if it would start rendering at all and give me an error file, but it won’t. I tried deleting the two video footage files before, but it didn’t help if i remember correctly. But as i said, i’ll give it another shot.

[Silver Adamson]

Check and check, nothing helped. Any point uploading the hole thing for someone to have a look? Then again, that wouldn’t help really.

[Silver Adamson]

Okay, a little progress, the sample rates didn’t match indeed. The audio sample rates were 48 kHz, not 44 as set. But still, didn’t start rendering. Open GL is turned off and all the files are .wav format.

Here are the settings from the log file –

Adobe After Effects v8.0x247 (Windows) render log for project “Untitled Project.aep”

Rendering started on 26.06.2008 at 0:41:29

26.06.2008 0:41:29: Starting composition “Work Comp”.

Render Settings: Best Settings
Quality: Best
Resolution: Full
Size: 720 x 480
Proxy Use: Use No Proxies
Effects: Current Settings
Disk Cache: Read Only
Color Depth: Current Settings
Frame Blending: On For Checked Layers
Field Render: Off
Pulldown: Off
Motion Blur: On For Checked Layers
Use OpenGL: Off
Solos: Current Settings
Time Span: Work Area
Start: 0;00;00;00
End: 0;00;05;15
Duration: 0;00;05;16
Frame Rate: 29,97 (comp)
Guide Layers: All Off
Storage Overflow: On
Skip Existing Files: Off

Output Module: Lossless
Output To: C:\Documents and Settings\S`lverrr\Desktop\Work Comp_2.avi
Format: Video for Windows Movie
Output Info: No Compression
Embedding: Project Link
Output Audio: 48.000 kHz / 16 bit / Stereo
Channels: RGB
Depth: Millions of Colors
Color: Premultiplied
Stretch: –
Crop: –
Final Size: 720 x 480
Profile: –
Embed Profile:

Post-Render Action: None

Render stopped by user.

26.06.2008 0:43:27: Finished composition “Work Comp”.

Total Time Elapsed: 1 Min, 51 Sec

Log closed on 26.06.2008 at 0:43:27

[Nicky Tilly]

Hi Silver, Did you ever find a solution to this problem. I am experiencing the exact same thing – thanks

[Balazs Frank]

Hi,

I am afraid I have the same problem here:

As I am working on an animation in AE CS4 (Win 7, 3 GB RAM) where everything is synchronized beat by beat, I have to use the audio at least at RAM Previews. (Final renders is image sequence, so it does not matter there.)
The audio I use here is 16 bit 44.1 kHz WAV file, the CD standard, NOT mp3. At Project Settings I use the 44.1 kHz. NO external footage with embedded audio used.

Here is my similar problem:

Usually after 7-8 RAM Preivew calculations AE always freezes when finishes the RAM Preview calculation. The whole applications halts and the mouse is still active, but I can not do anything, does not react to clicks, etc. This always happens exclusively only when my audio track is enabled to play.

All I can do is to kill the AE by the Windows 7 Task Manager.

I do understand that these audio-related tasks should be done in Premiere, but I have to use this WAV for creating proper and very detailed anim sync.

Is there any workaround to get rid of this kind of freeze?

Thanks,
Balazs