THANKS been waiting for this insight

Cheers Nick, On the videogame animation that i did i had that awfulfull glitch spent hours trying to resolve it, not realising that the mp3 was the problem.

Dont feel an idiot know and a bit more confident,

Thanks for sharing,

Rich

Good tips! thanks a lot. I was using the audio levels and always wondered why the fades were so fast.

Quick side note: if you don’t have quicktime pro which I think is required to export AIFF. You can do it directly from itunes by rightclicking any song and selecting ‘create AIFF’ version. If the option is not available you can fix that by going to itunes>preferences>import settings.

thegorilla on September 1st, 2009 said...

Great tip Nick.

Pop, click… problem solved! Thanks again man.

I was hoping that you would get into scrubbing and time marking/syncing. But, based on the other posts, maybe I’m already doing this right. ;P

Awesome! Always had trouble with sound in AE. But not anymore! What is the name of the song you used during the video? Sounded prety sweet.

Ah, you caught me red-handed. I’m guilty of using the levels that way… though I do do a prior edit in soundtrack pro first.
Thanks for the lesson.

random; have you covered a lesson about using the masks in after effects?

thegorilla on September 2nd, 2009 said...

Check out this tutorial on using masks. It’s pretty basic, but it will get you started. Cheers! http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2009/06/16/how-to-use-simple-shapes-and-masks-to-make-an-entire-animation/

hi nick!!

thanx i didnt know it!

im pretty new round here but have made me a cinema 4d user, before i was a maya user but i think cinema 4d is more my style, so thank you for your amazing lessons.

there is something i was wondering, if you check my site you will se that im very into retro graphics and i use a lot of wireframe objects in after effects, but how i can do that in cinema 4d?

this is my site http://www.myspace.com/shapelessportrait

would be cool to have a tutorial about it

and check this video, im sure taht is all made with cinema 4d, reminds me your lessons about sexy textures and cs tools

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWw9b-BNPE0

enjoy it

Thanks! I’ve never been an audio guy, this helps a lot.

hi pal,

I have a issue with audio in aftereffects CS3
I used a widescreen square pixel comp(PAL) setting. And just dragged a audio(mp3) to comp window and set up a small animation with text then pressed ‘0′ for RAM preview. it works perfect. But when I see the movie in final render the audio doesn’t sync with the animation.

after saw this tip, I extracted the audio to aiff format from the .mov file(it was actually a show reel downloaded from internet) but I face the same problem help me on this, my personal showreel is struck up with this damn issue.

PS : will offer gorilla a banana if it’s fixed

Great post, really helpfull.

Also I see you have quite a bit of the Roots in your music collection… Big fan?
Probably one of the best live shows on the planet.

damn, i had no idea mp3’s did that. thanks so much for the insight. *gonna go convert all of my projects sound files to AIFF now*

from student in training

thanks. I think you might check your Screencap app’s audio settings or something, the music is delayed heavily. I don’t need to explain, I bet you know already.

helpful stuff!