Sound clicks and pops

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Sound clicks and pops

Posted by Mike Fisher on April 21, 2009 at 11:56 pm

Folks-

I am getting clicks and pops in the sound when I render Quicktime movies through After Effects.

All Mac setup, I record the sound in Sound Studio, save as 44kHz, 16bit, stereo aiff. When I import the sound into AE and listen to the preview it sounds fine. But when I render it through After Effects 7.0 small pops and clicks are audible that were not there before. I render the sound as 44kHz 16bit. I don’t understand how the pops and clicks are being introduced.

Any ideas what might be causing this? Or ideas about ways to sidestep the problem?

Thanks in advance.

Mike Fisher
San Antonio Express-News

Hassaan Ashraf replied 17 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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Mike Fisher
April 22, 2009 at 4:25 pm

Dave,

Thanks for the information. I’ll take another look at how I am using the audio in After Effects.

What I am doing is recording audio with microphones to serve as voiceover for an animation. I composite the video (animation) and audio (voiceover) in After Effects and render a quicktime movie that we post online.

Mike Fisher
San Antonio Express-News
Mike Fisher
April 22, 2009 at 9:44 pm

Dave, thanks.

I spoke with Richard and, although he doesn’t use AE, I did find out some good info about how they operate there.

I use audio and video for my small projects but am not any sort of whiz at it. I’m surprised to see you say that AE is a lousy video editor… what do you use for video editing? How does AE fall short in video editing? It does everything I need, but my projects are much smaller than yours it seems.

Thanks.

Mike Fisher
News graphics
San Antonio Express-News

P.S. FYI- This link should take you to one of the animations that I put together.

https://www.210sa.com/Recycling_in_San_Antonio.html
Mike Fisher
April 22, 2009 at 10:21 pm

Folks-

Okay, well, all I did was convert the aiff file to a wav sound file, then render that wav file with the animation in AE and that result has no pops and clicks as with the aiff file. At least that’s how it turned out in my very first test.

Use wav files instead of aiff. Live and learn.

Thanks.

Mike Fisher
News graphics
San Antonio Express-News
Chris Wright
April 23, 2009 at 8:03 am

Some aiff can be un-editably compressed. Variants of AIFF known as AIFF-C or AIFC.
Hassaan Ashraf
May 18, 2009 at 11:03 pm

can you elaborate this more?

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