New with AE, trying to get my compositions to play continuously with a song.

[John Cuevas]

Drag your music onto the make new comp icon and name your comp “01 Master”.

If I’m reading and understanding what you did, Pre-comp 1 is the first line in your music. Take that and drag it into your new compostion. Now move forward in time to the place you want your last word”UHHH” to end and press ” alt + ] “.

Now take “2” and drop it into your “01 Master” and repeat the step to cut the layer. Do this for all your compositions. When you have everything layed out. You will need to render out a movie and you do that by pressing “cntl + shift + /”

Finally, you really need to take Michael’s advice and go through the basic tutorials he linked to before. You are trying to fly before you have learned to walk.

https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/01/getting-started-with-after-eff.html

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I didn’t explain that very well last night. You also would need to trim your in points also.

So when you put video 2 into your master timeline, you have move to the point where “2” starts and press “alt + [” to set the inpoint. Then move to the outpoint and press “alt + ]”.

Anyway, I set up a final comp for you. I don’t have the music, so I just used the first word of each comp as the inpoint time. I didn’t do trim all the outpoints.

3451_3447diarrheabetesvideocs5.aep.zip

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Tabby Leadlove]

Thank you for replying. I know I’ve jumped into this and got ahead of myself, so I will definitely check out the links you two have listed and try to figure this out. If I have anymore problems after that, I will reply to the forum.. Thanks 😀

[Tabby Leadlove]

I did the alt + ] and [ …. do you just press the alt and ] buttons? Also when I tried to render the master composition, the audio was out of wack..

[John Cuevas]

did the alt + ] and [ …. do you just press the alt and ] buttons?

Yes, just the alt and [ button to set the in-point of a layer, and the close point for the out-point.

Also when I tried to render the master composition, the audio was out of wack..

I’m going to just use Dave LaRonde’s answer:
Mp3 audio, that’s what. AE does not like compressed audio in any way, shape or form. It never has worked well with it. Perhaps it never will. You need to convert it — plus any other types of compressed audio files — to either wav or aiff files.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Tabby Leadlove]

Thank you , I am using https://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-aiff
but it has been 10 minutes and its still at 0% …… i finally got the in & out points down , just working on converting the mp3 to aiff…. any suggestions that I dont have to download? Once again thank you sooo much for the help. Next time I’ll be sure to read up on it before getting into this mess again 🙂