After Effects Renders Choppy Audio

[HazaChillzOut]

I've exported a meme like song by one of my friends to simply add an audio wave like on most music videos. The last export ended because of my lack of RAM (I have 8GB), and so the video and audio was cut in the clip, but despite it still ran smoothly until the cut. I reduced the amount of moving parts, and the whole thing renders, but after five different attempts the audio and videos skips constantly, which is extremelly annoying. Could someone please help? If I need to specify more let me know. Thanks.

[Rick Gerard]

If the playback of the rendered file is choppy then you probably set up some custom render settings and you don't know what you are doing. Use the presets in the Adobe Media Encoder to render an H.264 MP4 for your final product.

If the comp is stuttering, reset the work area, purge the cache and try again. AE is for creating effects you cannot do in an NLE, it is not an editor. Almost every comp you create should be one shot. Most of mine are under 7 seconds. The comps may be combined into a sequence in a master comp inside AE, but if the project is more than a minute or two you are usually better rendering your effects shots and editing the final product in Premiere Pro. That sounds like more work, and it takes a little more imagination to visualize the final edit, but in the long run, the entire project will take less time to complete and you'll do a better job of telling a story.

[HazaChillzOut]

Ah okay. Yes, it's a song. It's 2:26 long, so that's the issue.

How would I import the effect to Premiere Pro? I can just add the song there can't I?

But thinking of that, the waveform is based on the audio of the song, so getting rid of the audio would in turn undo the waveform right?

[Rick Gerard]

If you are using the visualizer to add a wave to the audio and it's not a bunch of shots telling a story then you are better off using AE. You won't get a preview of the whole project at full resolution, but you can use the AME to render an H.264 MP4 and it will playback just fine. The visualized wave is kind of a cheap trick and it's not in most music videos but if that is what you want to do then go for it.

If your render is choppy when it plays back then you either used the default Lossless preset in the Render Cue, which will never playback smoothly because it's not designed to, or you fouled something else up in your comp. If your AE is up to date and you did not use any custom settings then everything should work fine. If it doesn't then we need complete workflow, system, comp, render and playback details to help you out.

[HazaChillzOut · Accepted solution]

I figured out the issue, it's just simply my playback app on Windows that I was using made the video rally choppy, it's nothing to do with After Effects, I'm good. Thank you for your help anyway

[Rick Gerard]

If your media player was having problems you probably incorrectly set up the render options. Once again, you have to know exactly what you are doing to mess with the settings. It takes some study. That's why Adobe developed the presets.

[HazaChillzOut]

There's genuinely no issue anymore. Once I imported it to Premiere Pro (as the AVI file) the choppiness just straight up stopped. the media player just can't handle the video apparently.

[Rick Gerard]

Premiere uses a different playback system, scales down the video and will not give you accurate information about the compatibility of your video with media players. If your media player does not playback the video you need to send it through the Adobe Media Encoder and render an h.264 compressed MP4 using one of the standard presets that match your frame size. The AVI is only compatible with Premiere Pro. If you are doing further editing or just want to use Premiere Pro to export your file for distribution to the world then exporting from PPro will open up the Adobe Media Encoder and the default will be the proper format.

If you want to make videos you have to learn about compression and standards. Until you are expert use the presets and render to a universally accepted MPEG format like H.264 MP4 for distribution. One more time. Premiere Pro will not show you how a media player will playback your video. My system will playback RAW 4K video with effects applied in real time. The media players will not even come close to playing back the footage in real time because they are not designed to handle that kind of footage.

[liza62364427]

I literally made a whole account to tell you you're rude. It doesn't take an expert to advise a person new to adobe to change the render settings to a lower res or try with a differnt video player.  I think the word you're looking for isn't "expert", it's "have an over powered system for making gifs"

[Regina5C97]

Mine too. I thought there was a problem on my rendered 22 sec video but when I tried uploading it on facebook, the video isn't as choppy as how it is shown in windows "movies and tv" player.