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    Error opening sound component: Solution

    Posted by Filip Vandueren on July 10, 2006 at 2:19 pm

    Just thought I’d post a solution to this problem, so people can find it in the archives:

    Problem: After Effects gives this error:


    After Effects error: opening sound component
    (-2166).

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    Princesseverything replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Princesseverything

    July 14, 2006 at 4:47 am

    using AE 5.5
    OSX 4.6
    quicktime 7.1.2

    using AE just to compress files. so i load in the quicktime, then export as quicktime (although i’ve tried rendering and run into the same problem)… i get an error message that says

    After Effects error: opening sound component
    (-2166)

    i’ve checked all the forums… the original work around was to downgrade to quicktime 6.5, which i can’t because it doesn’t work on OSX4… the other work around was to rebuild the locate database and whatis database using OnyX, which i did….

    i still keep getting that same error message…. and i don’t want to upgrade AE because i only use it to compress files… sigh….

    help! do you know anything about this???

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