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Audio Stutters after Render?
Weird “bug” I’m running into. I have a single audio track for the length of my comp. When previewing in AE, with either a full RAM preview, or just an audio preview, the music plays fine with no problems.
But after rendering (quicktime Photo JPEG codec, 44.1 stereo audio) the audio stutters at about 2 seconds in for a few frames then continues to play smoothly. I’ve rendered it like 3 times now and it happens every time. I even put a different audio track in and rendered and it has the same EXACT problem and stutters in the same spot..
What could possibly be going on here? Again, the audio file itself is fine, it plays smooth in RAM previews and audio previews, the problem simply happens after rendering and playing back the file in quicktime.
Any ideas?
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9 Replies
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Have you tried rendering to a different codec? Animation, TGA, then re-rendering to PJPEG?
Photo-JPEG at a different quality setting?
Playing the movie on a different hard drive?
Sliding everything 2 seconds to the right to make a longer movie, then trimming off the extra in QT Player?Steve
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Is the audio in wav format ?
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Steve, no I didn’t try any of those, I can’t render in tga because I need the audio there. I did try different compression settings, but not different codecs (i always use photo jpeg). I figure why should I have to go out of my way using crazy tricks to just render a 30 second clip with audio? There is no excuse for stuttering, I just don’t get it.
Vince, the audio is mp3 format. As I said, it plays fine in RAM and audio previews, its just after render 🙁 I will try for the funk of it just to render as animation codec and see if that works, but I won’t like the file size.
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Todd you need to resave the MP3 to a different format before importing it into AE. I usually use Quicktime Pro to convert my MP3 files to AIFF and this removes the stutter from the rendered files.
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
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John thanks for the tip, I am actually in the process of downloading a converter now to change it to wav.. Is this a known issue with AE ? First time I’ve run into it and it seems like it shoulda been something they fixed by now.
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It happens to me occassionally when clients supply MP3 files. Don’t know if it’s a bug in AE or not but I’ll look into it.
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
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John and others thanks so much for the help, I converted it to a .wav and it plays flawlessly.. That tip will be good to know in the future when I am provided with mp3’s. I had no idea there was that bug. Thanks again for the help, working great now.
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Guys, there’s no need to change audio format, I had this problem a while ago. Go to preferences > output > audio duration block, and change it, so it’s always longer than the piece you are rendering.
Hope this works,
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Nice one! I did a search in the Help files and this is included as a tip.
best,
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au
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