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Audio doesn’t play
Hi – I have an animation which I’ve bounced in animation codec, I now need to re-bounce it with the audio. I want to use animation codec for it’s lossless quality, but whenever I try to bounce it in FCP it doesn’t look as good.
So I’m having to bounce inside AE. The trouble is, it won’t bounce with the audio. I’ve made sure that the audio box is checked inside the render settings. I thought it was something to do with my soundcard settings however, if you preview audio – you hear the audio, it plays it fine. However, whenever it’s on the timeline, there’s no audio playing and it doesn’t bounce with it either.
Any ideas guys?! 🙂
many thanks,
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What version of AE? What operating system? What kind of sound file? You don’t hear sound when you press 0 on your number pad for a RAM preview? What about when you press . on your number pad?
Also, what do you mean by “bounce”? Do you mean render or encode?
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It’s CS5 10.0.0.458 running on Snow Leopard 10.6.4, playing a 16bit, 48khz aiff.
When I say bouncing, I mean encoding. Now it’s doing a strange thing when I do a RAM preview it plays ok. Then it’ll bounce (encode) the video with the very beginning of the audio, but then it cuts out! -
Ah, that’s sorted it, thank you David, much obliged. I should have checked that really. But never had to use audio inside AE really so thought there might have been a process I was missing.
Many thanks,
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I cannot hear the audio at all of the mp3 file I dragged into AE CS5. There are no layers other than this one! If I click to activate the graph I can see that the levels are going up and down but cannot hear the audio. Whats the problem?
Also if you never use audio in AE, what is the best way to precisely add text to the beat of the music of a video that I’m editing in AE if you cannot hear the audio? I”m sure you don’t you play the song in a seperate player (winamp)and cue it exactly to start with the AE video (which is my best idea). Do you write down the precise times from the timecode where you would want to insert the text?
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First of all, posting in an old thread is not a good way to initiate discussion on a new issue. You should have started your own thread.
Now, to your issue:
How are you trying to listen to the audio? RAM preview by pressing the 0 key on your numeric keypad? Spacebar? (DON’T hit spacebar in AE) Audio preview by pressing . on your numeric keypad?AE often doesn’t work well with MP3’s or other compressed audio files. If you’re doing a correct audio preview and are still not hearing anything, as suggested to the original poster, change the format of your audio file to WAV.
As for syncing, if you don’t use AE, you would listen to the music in an NLE like Premiere or Final Cut and make cuts in there to white video over black (or something) to show the beats you want to hit in AE.
However, if you have your audio as a WAV file, you can listen to the audio in AE. I usually press . on the numeric keypad and then press * while it’s playing back to leave markers. If you have no layer selected, it will place composition markers, if a layer is selected it’ll place layer markers.
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