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No sound in AE CS4
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I am having this problem also. No matter what I do the waveform is flat and when i preview/pre compose there is still nothing. The audio file works in everything else including flash, but not AE????
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I found this on Yahoo Answers. It may help.
It worked for me!“Make sure the little audio option box is activated on that layer, then you must first render a portion of video by pressing ‘0’. When it plays back it should play audio, but if you just play normally it wont preview audio. Audio in after effects is a pain.
Hold Ctrl and that will let you scrub across the audio if you drag the timeline cursor around. ”
Source: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090414204255AAFWtun
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Hi all.
I’m quite new to After Effects, and I’ve encountered a “sound” problem. First let me say: I’ve spend some time first trying to find where this problem was answered, but I haven’t came across exactly my situation, and all the other suggested answers didn’t work for me.
So in a last resort I decided to post my problem:
It’s really weird, I’m working with a composition that consists of a horde of different movie clips (mpeg). I muted them all by turning the Audio Levels down to -48.00dB. Then I have one sound clip playing through-out the composition (a mp3 song). There’s just 3 places where I want the music from the sound file to fade-out, and the current clip’s sound to be audible.
This I did do, and everything was working fine (all the sound I mean).
Then I just added some animated text to finish the project.
As I we’re doing this, I realised all the wave forms of all the movie clips have disappeard (which is bad). Except for the sound file, which still displays the wave-form and is still audible (which is good).I have no idea why it did work, and now suddenly it’s not working any-more. Also strange is: when I double click the movie clips in the project list and RAM preview it, I can hear the sound, so the sound is still in the clip after brought into AE. But as soon as I drop it into my composition the sound disappears, wave-form and all.
Yes the little sound button is clicked “on” at the RAM preview window, and yes I’ve got the audio clicked “on” when I render the movie out. But even when rendering, the clips are muted. But in past renders the sound was there!?
So if any-one has any ideas as to how to resolve this, I’d really appreciate it.
Thanx loads!
R
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when i import mp3 files into my ae project there is a glitch approximately 2sec in the audio track ! there is a space in the waveform ! i bought a new laptop windows 7! should i restore and reinstall!!! can someone help me out!!
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If you actually read this thread that you posted to.. you’d see that people say convert to WAV or AIFF.
MP3 is a compressed format and should not be used in an authoring environment
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques
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mp3 usually worked well in ae with my older window xp !!! Thank you for your assistance i will convert to wave!!!
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I got the solution!
I tried everything first, rebooted, converted MP3 to WAV and AIF, tried different hardware mixes in the preferences, tired the different previews in the Composition menu (audio was ticked but the other other audio options were just a mess), and starting to embark on remapping my keys when I spotted the problem.
The”0″ key to play the RAM preview was beeping when pressed but I found it had already been assigned in the Adobe After Effects 9.0 Shortcuts file… and then it hit me.
You press the “0” key under your numeric keypad!! Ha! So simple.
No need for conversions, MP3, AIF, WAV all work fine. As for the snarky guy who first “answered” this post- go put your head in a bucket. I also went through Adobe’s list and found no joy there…
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