[Luke Frohling]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! The steps you listed …..” Hover over them till one of them shows : Show Keyframes. Click on this icon and set it to Show Clip Volume.”… worked like a charm!!

[Luke Frohling]

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…

[Luke Frohling]

Yes I had the same problem as well when I tried to open the same project on a newly installed Leopard computer (same version of FCP 5). I also found out that my font (Gill Sans) also displayed incorrectly. I copied and the font from my Mac Book Pro (Tiger) and installed it the proper way in my Mac Pro Leopard but still its “bold” was twice the bold of normal. I simply changed all my “bold”s to “plain”s and no problems (though they now look a little thinner then before).

I fixed the “failed to render” by closing the project and re-opening it again- but then I’m used to FCP being temperamental with me (reminds me of my days employed as an IT “expert” with Windows accreditation)….