editing with sound

[Paul Hennell]

I’m assuming you mean while previewing content, rather then when exporting it, its a common issue, becuause you can’t just hit space to play sound and video in AE.

To hear sound you have to do a ram preview, so it can play it at the full speed with pre-rendered video. (If a ram preview doesn’t play the sound check it’s not muted in the layer, and that Comp> Preview>Audio is ticked.)

You can also just play the audio from the current position by pressing the number pad . key, which if you display the waveform in the audio track layer, means you can have a fairly good idea what you’re doing. (If you have specific points to edit to, drop down the audio waveform, play the audio with the [numpad] . key, and mark the key audio sections with the [numpad] * key to aid synchronising bits.

Check out the help guide for more on ram preview settings and working with audio.