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January 24, 2019
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Audio breaking up after import?

  • January 24, 2019
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I have a really strange issue, where my audio is fine outside of After Effects, but breaks once it has been imported.  By "breaks up"I mean that some words in a sentence are completely omitted, however the audio plays at the correct speed.  This results in the audio ending way sooner than the video, and the video not being in sync with the audio.  It was fine yesterday, so I thought that it might have just been a problem while saving, so i tried it in Premiere.  Same problem.  It's not just a preview issue either.  After exporting from Media Encoder, the audio remains broken.  I can't even completely restart the project, as every time I import a video, the audio in the video breaks up.  A quick response would be much appreciated, as I would like to complete this project as soon as possible.

EDIT: It's also only with specific clips.  Some clips are completely untouched, while others are unusable.

Correct answer Rumyart

@jgjg8485 I believe I had the same issue - audio file breaking both in the composition and after export. It happened after I had worked on the project on another device and then tried to continue working on it on my usual setup.
It turns out I hadn’t exported all the resources properly. The dependencies couldn’t work right even when I tried re-importing the audio from a clean source. So I went back on my second device - where the AE file worked perfectly fine - and collected all the dependancy files in a brand new folder that I imported back on my initial setup and completely replaced the broken one with. Fixed for me.

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OussK
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OussKCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 24, 2019

As Mylenium say we need more information about your files and system, anyway as a quick solution if you audio is .MP3 try to converted to WAV and check if this can help

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    jayj74050827Author
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    January 25, 2019

    My clips are mostly mp4s, so this is unrelated.  However, I did screenshot some of my settings in a reply to Mylenium, so you can look at that and tell me if you need more stuff.

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    jgjg8485
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    September 13, 2022

    Did you get a solution for this? I have the same problem now.

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
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    January 24, 2019

    Impossible to know. You have written a lot, but essentially said nothing. No exact specs of your clips, no system info, no details about preview and render settings, nothing else. Sorry, but nobody can even begin to guess based on so little to go on.

    Mylenium

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    jayj74050827Author
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    January 25, 2019

    My bad.  My files are mostly mp4 files, with some mp3s.

    System Specs:

    Composition Settings:

    Preview Settings:

    Audio Hardware Preferences:

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