No Audio Preview


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No Audio Preview
by Chris Boyes on Jun 2, 2008 at 7:50:05 pm

Hi Peeps,

I have a colleague running CS3 on an Intel iMac. No matter what we do, AEP will not do an audio+video RAM preview. It will do an audio only preview, you hear it then...

If you create a new comp, put only an audio layer in there, and do a RAM preview...nothing. The waveform shows that there's something there, but the audio levels do not bounce during preview.

Since doing a RAM preview is the only way to see audio and video at the same time (aside from exporting a .mov and playing it in QT), that's a big, big problem.

We've read some articles talking about Quicktime versions, iTunes versions and even one talking about opening GarageBand, saving a song, and then that's supposed to fix it...no dice.

Anybody got a fix, something in Preferences maybe...?

I've used AEP for 5+ years and have never seen this problem which basically cripples one's use of the program.

Chris Boyes
Northern Arizona University

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Re: No Audio Preview
by Dave LaRonde on Jun 2, 2008 at 8:23:28 pm

You mention "iTunes" and "audio-only", which makes me wonder...

...are you trying to preview audio that you downloaded from iTunes, which has all sorts of copy protection on it? You may have to resort to burning a CD from iTunes, and THEN using Quicktime to export the CD track to Final Cut Pro.

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA

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Re: No Audio Preview
by Chris Boyes on Jun 2, 2008 at 8:29:00 pm

Nothing like that....no sort of audio will play during RAM preview.

I was mentioning that some people with the same type of problem had suggested that an iTunes update caused it...

Those comments were from earlier dates though and had to do with previous versions of AEP and iTunes.

Thanks,
CB

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Re: No Audio Preview
by Ron Coy on Jun 3, 2008 at 2:28:28 pm

In preferences, under Previews, what do you have for the Audio Preview duration?

Also check the Audio Hardware preferences and Audio Output Mapping.

Check the levels in the audio window and make sure they're not all the way down (unlikely, but...)

Lastly, try trashing the preferences file and see if that fixes anything.

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Re: No Audio Preview
by jerad sloan on Aug 23, 2008 at 12:38:53 am

ALSO, make sure you are viewing the comp and not one of the layers or footage windows...i just had the same thing happen...thought it was something weird in my setup...googled around tried to troubleshoot it and realized my RAM preview was playing the layer and not the comp...layer had no sound, so of course there was no audio...

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