Comments on: The Correct Way To Use Audio in After Effects

By: aDupan

aDupan — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:02:08 +0000

thanks for the tutorial– it really helped me.. i was lost –a mute button who would know? also correct formats use did the trick.
Thanks again.
A.D.

By: lonny

lonny — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:52:26 +0000

Hey nice job on the tut.

I have to jump in and make a suggestion though. Using AIFF’s is REALLY bad. There are lots of known problems with AE and aiffs, even in AE 5. I work in television and avoid AIFF’s like the plague. They nearly always cause synch problems

I’d always recommend using WAV (16 or 24 bit) for audio, either OSX or Windows. Use Audacity to convert your audio. It’s free: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Anyway, great site keep it up.

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By: Hauff

Hauff — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:58:14 +0000

Thank you very much, Nick! It help e very very much!

By: fs

fs — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:20:27 +0000

sry guys but i jest read this and i had to correct u…it’s every 10 dB that the volume (loudness) is doubled

(but every 6 dB the sound level is dobled)

By: MarcyVF

MarcyVF — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:32:19 +0000

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!

By: The Gorilla

The Gorilla — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:22:30 +0000

If your trying to match the beat, Just match the video as close as you can. Even if you fix one beat to be exact, chances are that the next one will be off. Just edit your track it a “real” audio program and bring it in AE for animation.

By: Cris McRae

Cris McRae — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:00:58 +0000

You mentioned the lack of resolution in Ae for aligning an audio file, but how are you supposed to get precise placement. Are you suggesting using dynamic link to Soundbooth, if thats possible, or are you talking about trimming off fractions of a second in the front of an audio file and re-importing it into AE, back and forth until the alignment is right????????? That could be a lot of work.

By: Lars EID

Lars EID — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:24:10 +0000

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

By: MW

MW — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:10:19 +0000

Thanks for the tips! My problems with aifs is getting them to preview before putting them in a comp – instead of opening in a qt-esque player just to listen to a file it keeps opening in a footage viewer window, which is no use. Anyone else had this and found a work around?