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  • How to hear Music?

    Posted by Hopeful Monster on February 4, 2006 at 6:49 am

    I imported my music file – its on the timeline, I rendered it and no music is playing.

    It’s an mp3, is it possible that it needs to be a wav file?

    How do I go about changing it?

    Made it in Garage Band, Imported it in Itunes (where I changed it from an AIF file to an
    MP3.

    Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

    Andra replied 20 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Al

    February 4, 2006 at 5:51 pm

    obvious question but do you have the speaker icon turned on near the RAM preview button?

  • Hopeful Monster

    February 5, 2006 at 8:46 pm

    Ya – It’s on.

  • Andra

    February 7, 2006 at 8:43 pm

    Same here! I’ve never worked with audio in AE before, and thought I should check it out. I’ve got a 12 second drumloop at 44.1 kHz and 16 bits in Stereo that I imported into a new project. I pulled it onto the “new comp” to make a new comp the length of the loop.

    When I open the “footage” and hit play, the drums are there.

    When I hit 0 for RAM preview… nothing

    When I hit . for audio preview… nothing

    When I render a movie… nothing

    I’ve tried using the speaker switch on the layer… nothing

    I’ve tried the speaker switch on the Time Controls… nothing
    By the way: which position means SOUND ON for that switch. The in (with stop sign) or out (without stop sign) position>

    When I open up (pull down) the audio layer all the way including the waveform, it doesn’t display a waveform. Instead, there’s a flat blue line, as if there isn’t any audio. Again, there should be audio because I can hear it as footage.

    The meters on the audio panel haven’t moved yet, either.

    My Audio Preview settings are 50 seconds at 44.1 kHz, 16bits, Stereo.

    I’m probably missing something here, but I would really like to get this working. So any and all ideas are welcome…
    Thanks in advance!

    Yours,
    Andra

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