After Effects playback volume is quiet compared to Premiere - almost unable to work with

[TomC93]

Hey there community!

I've been working with Premiere and After Effects via Dynamic Link for around 4 years now. I've not had this issue before. To summarise the issue: video clips in my Premiere timeline are nice and loud without any audio effects and no keyframed volume added, then I create a dynamically linked AE composition with those clips and without changing the volume of my speakers those same clips are almost impossible to hear in AE during playback. Creating animations that work alongside the audio is becoming increasingly tiring with this issue.

I recently updated my suite of AE, PP, PS and AI to CC2020, latest update. This hasn't happened before.

Sure I could manually increase the dB of each individual clip in AE, and this makes it less impossible to hear them, but still hard to hear them. And that seems like a bandade as opposed to an actual fix. 

Why is AE so quiet compared to PP? Could I have screwed up some settings somewhere? 

My audio output preferences seem to match between the two programs.

Any help is greatly appreciated! 

[Jim5C46]

I Solved the issue, following the advice @LGPCB831 . but a nondestructive way to achieve this is.

Select all the audio in AE that is quiet. And disable the fx switch in the layers pannel.

(its the between quality and sampling and frame blending) 

Hope this helps, I couldn't figure out this issue for a while. 

[SPfoto]

I confirm. This is 100% working for me. Anyway it's look lika a bug that we need to do this to have a coorrect volume of audio.

[brendan42069333]

Great alternative!

[mfowler07]

Thank you! - that fixed it for me

[LMSZ]

Yes, when I look under effects, I see two instances of "Stereo Mixer" that I definitely did not add. For whatever reason, these reduce my audio by about 60-80%. Oddly, they're not on clip of video.

If you click on the fx button or on remove-->all effects, it will also get rid of stuff you probably want like keying so I think the real solution is to check each track for "Stereo mixer" under the effects and delete them. 

Thanks for the help--I never would've thought to look there or suspected that would make any difference. I wonder how the @#$!@#$ it's getting added to my clips... This new version of AE is very unstable for me.