Audio in AE sounds Garbled?

[checkly11]

Hello,

When I try to preview my audio in AE it always sounds garbled like something is preventing it from playing smoothly, just sounds all chewed up. At first I used an MP3 file and I thought maybe that's the problem since I read on here that it's best to use a wav file for production instead. So I converted the MP3 into a Wav through media encoder and it still sounds the same, all garbled up. What's wrong with this?

[Mylenium]

Nobody can tell you anything without exact system info or other technical details like version of AE, audio settings and so on.

Mylenium

[Rick Gerard]

System info and AE version down to the last decimal point please? Are you new to AE? Do you know how to run a ram preview? There a bunch of ways to foul things up but we have no ideas what may be happening to you without some details.

[checkly11]

I am using AE 2017 version 14.0.1.5. And yes I am new to AE. And I am not sure of how to run a ram preview. One thing is that the once rendered, the audio sounds fine. It's just when I try to preview it in AE it tends to always sound garbled.

[Roei Tzoref]

It's just when I try to preview it in AE it tends to always sound garbled.

this could be that you are audio is not playing in real-time and the default is to hear it in slow-mo.

if you want to cancel this feature you can check this.

now you won't hear bad audio if it's not real time.

I am not sure of how to run a ram preview

Ae is designed to playback cached frames in real-time. meaning you usually have to cache the frame (save them to memory by caching them) before you can have a smooth playback.

try these settings for Numpad 0 playback:

also read here to learn more about playback:

Preview without rendering in After Effects

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi Checkly,

Did you ever solve your audio issue? Please let us know if one of our experts' responses assisted you, or if you still need help.

Thanks,
Kevin

[kashmiri5DAD]

Hy sir my name is srosh Jan.

i am facing a problem and nowhere I found the solution to this problem at least youtube.

sir when I play my sound in after-effects of any audio its plays normally after 2 seconds it sounds horrible like slow-mo and the pitch of the sound is changed.

like a girl singing a song after 1 or 2 seconds, it sounds like an old man singing the song.

i am worried about it I am using adobe 2020 version 17.5.0 please help me sir as fast as anyone you can.

I'm holding my projects until anyone replies.

[Ting8]

I tried this and my preview finally works very smoothly after setting sample rate to the lowest one.

File > Project Settings > Audio > Sample rate > 22