Simple compositon - Wav file distortion

[marjimsha]

Greetings:) 

I am creating a simple animation with a wav file, but the sound is coming out distorted.  The frame rate is 29.97 in the comp, in the wav file, and in the ram preview.  The Photoshop file is the 72 dpi and 1920 x 1080.  The wav file is clipped at one minute.  Thank you in advance!

AFX v. 17.1.4

Windows 10
Optiplex 3050

64 bit

Intel HD Graphics 630 

Intel Core i5-7500 T 2.70 Ghz

[Mylenium]

Wave files have no framerates, so this is not actually useful. The real sample rate is much more important and that is likely what it boils down to: Your file gets resampled by using output settings that don't match the source and since AE really sucks at audio processing, thinks get wonky. Check these things, including on your preview panle, which also potentially does not achieve realtime playback simply because of the audio issue more than anything else.

Mylenium

[marjimsha]

Thank you for the response,  but I am not sure what you are suggesting I "check".  If preview panel is not achieving realtime playback, what action can i take?  Thanks again!

[Mylenium]

Dig into the preferences "Audio" section, the relevant audio sub-panel of the preview panel, the output settings, footage interpretation and so on. You might want to (re-)read the help on this basic stuff.

Mylenium

[marjimsha]

Thank you!  I promise, I spend many hours doing my due diligence, but really appreciate this resource:)  Have a good one!

[OussK · Accepted solution]

I notice in your screenshot even with a cached timeline you're not playing in real-time, maybe because your PC specs, so to figure out this try to reduce the quality and skip one or tow frames

 

[marjimsha]

God Bless You!!  Ha ha!  After 48 hours straight of wrestling with this, my audio is finally playing accuratesly!