AE and mp3 sound file strange ticking help !

[Khalor]

AE can't handle MP3s properly - convert it to a .wav first using Goldwave or something.

Hope that helps!
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[Ian Jones]

You can liken this kind of problem to importing a compressed movie file and expecting it to render out totally smoothly and without artifacts. The Mp3 is a compressed source file, expect problems. Convert to WAV first as suggested.

[djmatix]

I'm using some audio from sounddogs that is 48000 highest quality. I import this into my AE composition and when I make the movie I set the rate to 48.000 Khz and i get this strange ticking sound you can view the video with this sound here: it's a 15mb file
http://wizradio.com/concept/test.mov

I tried setting the mp3's in AE upon make movie to lower than 48 and the ticking is still there. IF i double click on it where it shows all the files in the comp, I can play it without any issues, but once I make movie, the ticking is there. Any suggestions ?? it's driving me crazy !


For some reason After Effects doesnt handle MP3's the way Premiere does. I've even found it difficult to convert it to a .wav and use it. Since After Effects is base primarily on the Quicktime codec, converting it to .AIFF seems to work everytime.

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