[Rudolf Janse van vuuren]

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