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  • Music not outputting properly

    Posted by Benjamin Tubb on May 26, 2006 at 7:41 am

    I’m doing this weird abstract-ish animation to a song (Such Great Heights by the Postal Service). It looks and sounds wonderful when RAM Previewing. But when I render out a test video, the audio does this weird sort of skip thing, where it plays normally for two seconds, then plays the second second (haha) about three times, then moves on… Even if I render out just the audio… What’s this all about? I’ve never seen this problem before. And if anyone can point me towards a good free place to host stuff, I’ll post audio examples.

    I’m on After Effects 7, Windows, and the Audio is an mp3 file. I’ve also tried it with a WAV version. I’ve tried rendering out a Wav, a WMV, an AVI, and a MOV.

    Someone please figure this out, I’m about to cry.

    Ben Tubb

    “Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”

    Steve Roberts replied 19 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 9 Replies
  • 9 Replies
  • Lessevolvedman

    May 26, 2006 at 9:35 am

    great song choice.. love the postal service

    I havent really used ae7 yet so i dunno what its like with mp3’s, but i kno ae 6.5 etc hates mp3’s
    You said you did a wav version.. was that not any better?
    Cos you should be using wav, aiff or such

    //lessevolvedman
    http://www.lessevolvedman.com.au

  • Benjamin Tubb

    May 26, 2006 at 3:39 pm

    Yeah, I tried it with a WAV… It didn’t help.

    Ben Tubb

    “Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”

  • Benjamin Tubb

    May 26, 2006 at 7:54 pm

    I tried that though… I tried completely removing the mp3 from the project, and popping in the wav, and I did a RAM Preview: Sounds fine. Rendered out: Still messed up.

    Thanks for the input everyone, keep it coming…

    Ben Tubb

    “Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”

  • Steve Roberts

    May 26, 2006 at 8:06 pm

    How is the WAV compressed?
    Does this happen with all WAVs?
    Does this happen with all projects?
    Does this happen with AIFFs?

  • Benjamin Tubb

    May 26, 2006 at 8:09 pm

    The WAV is outputted from Audition with the default settings (32-bit, I think?)… and I haven’t tried using another WAV in this project yet, I’ll jump on that right now. And other wavs usually work fine in other projects…

    I’ll go see if its just this song that’s being dumb…

    Ben Tubb

    “Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”

  • Benjamin Tubb

    May 26, 2006 at 8:17 pm

    Hmm… I tried importing a different random WAV, and it rendered out fine… It’s just this one then. I saved this copy of the song off the internet, because I’m making this animation out of pure boredom…
    Does anyone have a copy of Such Great Heights by the Postal Service they can e-mail me? Unless someone can tell me why this doesn’t work…

    Thanks,
    Ben Tubb

    “Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”

  • Lessevolvedman

    May 27, 2006 at 2:59 am

    whats your email

    //lessevolvedman
    http://www.lessevolvedman.com.au

  • Benjamin Tubb

    May 27, 2006 at 4:20 am

    benjamin.tubb@gmail.com

    Thanks man… I mean, I bought it off iTunes too, but I can’t bring that into AE.

    Thanks,
    Ben Tubb

    “Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”

  • Steve Roberts

    May 27, 2006 at 11:46 am

    iTunes tunes are encoded — they’re proprietary, not “normal”, so you can’t bring them into AE.

    It’s to prevent filesharing.

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