Yes, I should have been more specific. I was panicing. : )
It was a lot like what happened when VLC was playing a movie and with whatever output was selected, the dialog sounded echo-y and very quiet. The files themselves were fine outside of AE. In premiere they were fine. I ended up exporting little clips of each movie in premiere and then importing those into AE.
Still, I’d love to know what might have caused that issue. I can provide more details, but I’m not sure what to say. Aside from:
I’m using AE 2014.2