Audio file playing first five seconds then repeating, instead of playing full file.

Question

I am making a kinetic typography video on my mac using the latest (2017) version of after effects. I imported my audio file (which is 2mins long) and when i hit the spacebar to preview the sound this little green bar started loading across the top of my timeline then just stopped after about 5 seconds. Now, when i try to preview it it plays fine for the first five seconds and when it reaches the end of the green bar it just starts over? Now I can't listen to the rest of my audio to time out when my words should appear!

Szalam · Answer

Press . on your number pad to preview just audio. You will get a much longer preview time.

As Mylenium says, AE's previewing system is very different from the kind of preview you would expect in editing software like Premiere because AE is not editing software!

When you want to match animation to audio, there are various things that may or may not be beneficial - it all depends on what you're doing and how you work.

You can do an audio-only preview as I suggested and lay down layer markers or composition markers (which you lay down depends on whether or not you have a layer selected).
You can press LL on your audio layer to reveal the waveform.
You can hold CTRL (PC) or CMD (MAC) while you scrub to hear audio.

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