After Effects Audio Problems [*CANT FIX*]

[wumbow19436483]

The audio slows down and sounds super creepy

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[Jose Panadero]

Click on the INFO panel to show if AE is playing in realtime. WHen you have audio in your composition, After Effects needs to cache audio and video to play in realtime so the first time playback while caching, the sound is "creepy". The second playback should be fine if the panel info shows REALTIME. Anyway, using MP3 audio files is not recommended. Try to change the audio to an uncompressed format like AIF or WAV using Adobe Media Encoder.

[Rameez_Khan]

Hi wumbow,

I hope you're not encountering the issue anymore. Jose rightly mentioned that MP3 is not a recommended format. Did you change the format to WAV?

Let us know.

Thanks,

Rameez

[wumbow19436483]

I gave up on it for a while. I tried and  nothing worked. I asked a few people who used ae on a screenshare and they cant even explain the problem. They told me the same thing you guys did

[P.M.B]

Also depends on how much memory you have in your system, the state of your cache drive, and the nature of your assets.

I also see by the blue bar in your timeline that from 15 to 45 is cached and that nothing is being written to memory.

All of this makes me wonder if you are simply trying to edit a four and a half minute video in After Effects with a full cache and insufficient memory.

I suggest purging the cache and memory and trying to work in small 5 or 10 second intervals that your cache and memory can handle.

Also you might consider moving the project to Premier which is an editing program rather than trying to use AE which is a post effects compositing program.

[Byron Cortez]

Tell us the tech specs of your system please.

[wumbow19436483]

• Windows 10 Home
• Intel® Core™ Processor i7-9700KF
• GeForce® GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6
• 16GB ADATA XPG Z1 3000MHz RAM
• ASUS Prime Z390-P WiFi ATX Motherboard
• 512GB Intel 660P M.2 NVME SSD + 3TB HDD Combo
• Phanteks Eclipse P400 Chassis

[Dave_LaRonde]

What happens when you hit the period / decimal point key on the numeric keypad?

[wumbow19436483]

What do you mean? In After effects?

[Dave_LaRonde]

wumbow19436483  wrote

What do you mean? In After effects?

No, Microsoft Word.  Of course After Effects.

[Byron Cortez]

[Byron Cortez]

Try setting Half or Third in the resolution of the Preview panel and let us know if the same thing happens.

[wumbow19436483]

I had it on quarter

[Byron Cortez]

How much RAM memory have you got set it in Preferences / Memory / RAM reserved for the other applications? I can't see that your playhead are making RAM preview.

[wumbow19436483]

Is there a way to change how much ram goes into after effects?

[Byron Cortez]

Yes there is.

Go to Preferences / Memory / RAM reserved for the other applications.

Memory and storage in After Effects

[wumbow19436483]

What's a good ram to put at

[Byron Cortez]

Approximately one third of your total memory should be put in "RAM reserved for other applications". Like in my screenshot,  I have 16GB so I set 5GB. That means that the Adobe applications wil be use 2 thirds of the total RAM.

[P.M.B]

I think the music sounds good the way it is.  I imagine it's that horrible generic public domain techno beat at full speed.

[wumbow19436483]

Yes but I'm making a cinematic

[Byron Cortez]

jajajaja

[ajeethtnp]

Disable it & Enjoy.
That's happening because of low CPU performance.