No sound with Quicktime export?

TimAnim · Post by **TimAnim** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:14 pm

I'm starting (again) to try and figure out AS Pro.

I've got my animation synced to a .wav file, but when I export it as a quicktime, the audio isn't included.

Any ideas why?

Does audio not get included when you only export a frame range instead of the complete animation?

And does anyone know why the audio playback stutters so much when I'm working on the file? I've got a MacPro 2.66 with 6 gigs of RAM that I use for audio recording, and it can play back dozens of 24 bit tracks without a hiccup. Shouldn't I be able to get through an animation of 2 characters with 1 stereo audio track without problems?

Thanks for any help or info you can provide!

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:03 pm

Hello Tim

You have to import your sound file

Files/Import/Soundtrack

GC

TimAnim · Post by **TimAnim** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:16 pm

GCharb wrote:Hello Tim

You have to import your sound file

Files/Import/Soundtrack

GC

I've done that -- as I said above, I synced the animation to a .wav file (which I loaded into AS Pro). The sound plays back as I scrub through the animation, and the waveform shows up in the timeline.

But when I export the animation - silence.

What's up wit' dat?

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:38 pm

Hello again

This may sound a little childish, but I would resample the wav, just in case, Once, not in AS Pro though, Quicktime would not play a sound file, I resampled it with audition and it went great.

QT just didnt like the sampling of that perticular sound file for some reason.

GC

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:11 pm

Does audio not get included when you only export a frame range instead of the complete animation?

That seems to be the culprit, althought some of the quicktime codecs don't work so well.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:22 pm

I've noticed a problem with QT when rendering from other programs. The sound is there but it just won't play. It's strange. I have to restart QT.

-vern

TimAnim · Post by **TimAnim** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:58 pm

The 'frame range' appears to be the culprit.

After a few more tests, exporting the entire animation worked just fine. But anytime I used a frame range, no sound.

I believe this would qualify as a "bug", no?

Is there somewhere I should email bug reports to? Or is this a 'known issue', or pilot error?

At least for now I know the work around...

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:20 pm

I wouldn't call it a bug. AS has very limited audio capabilities, so I wouldn't expect it to 'split' the audio for export. But really, exporting a frame range is only something I'd do for preview. Generally scenes are short enough to be handled wholesale