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Sound won't pass through compositions

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
September 7, 2021
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I have a project with compositions within compositions.

For example: Final composition < Pre-comp < Character composition

I've added sound to the "Character composition", just like I've done a million of times before, on other projects. Now, if I go to any composition that is before that (either "Pre-comp" or "Final composition"), the sound won't play at all. There is no wave form at all, the audio levels are normal and I am sure it's not muted on the timeline.

What's weird about it is that it plays normally on it's own composition. The sound won't render either if I render any of those other pre-compositions.

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edmondyang

Participant

Sound weird, but I muted the layer, then unmuted again, and it worked....

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Kadratin

Participant

I've got the same issue on Windows. I've opened the file on my mac and it works back.

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Kadratin

Participant

Ok, It was because I've render a proxy on my mac. Try to press that square to disable it.

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David Arbor

Inspiring

This sounds like the audio in "Character composition" might be set to be a Guide Layer. Does the layer name have a little turquoise crosshair icon to the left of the name? If so, the idea of guide layers are that they can be used as guides in the current composition you're working in, but they won't pass through to other comps up in the hierarchy and they won't render unless you specifically ask them to in export settings. You can easily enable or disable a layer as a guide by right-clicking the layer and unchecking "Guide Layer." Alternatively, you might not have the speaker icon selected on the pre-comps. It's next to the layer eyeball icon. If you can see this speaker icon, then my bet is on the guide layer.

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beam85344165Author

Participating Frequently

Hi, I checked and it's not a guide layer. I even copied and pasted the layer into the middle composition and that one did pass through to the final composition. It's so odd!

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David Arbor

Inspiring

Maybe your audio cache files got messed up. You can delete the file from the Project panel, import it again, then try adding it to to your sequence. An even better test is to try a file (preferably .wav) that you haven't imported to this project at all yet.

Andrew Yoole

Inspiring

Please provide a screengrab of each of the three timelines with the audio view expanded on each.

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beam85344165Author

Participating Frequently

Hi, so here's two screenshots of two compositions.

The first one is the first composition in which I have the sound (the character composition I have in the example):

The second screenshot is of the second composition. I only have a time remap to keep the last frame (the pre-comp in the example):

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beam85344165Author

Participating Frequently

Oh I muted that layer just before the screenshot by accident. It still won't play audio if unmuted.

Shivangi_Gupta

Community Manager

Hi there,

This does not sound ideal. Could you confirm the version of Adobe AE? Also, please share a screenshot of the Audio Hardware Preferences.

We're here to help and sort the issue out.

Regards,

Shivangi

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beam85344165Author

Participating Frequently

Hi there, sorry for the late reply. I'm on 18.4.1

I've noticed that it passes through from the pre-comp to the final comp if I have the sound on pre-comp. But it won't pass through from character comp at all - talking about a copy paste job from the character comp to the pre-comp.

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