If you want to really drive up the bass and still get audio that will sound good you need to learn how to use multi band compressor limiters. It looks like you need to do a little studying on audio production. Recommended average level for digital audio is -18 to - 12. You don't have a lot of hard clipping but levels are way too high for video production. Notice that there is a lot more empty space between the left and right channels. Your waveform shows me that your audio levels are too high. The waveforms look good to me but I don't know what to look for. Moving them doesn't seem to change anything. This is what my after effects looks like as you can see the Audio Levels and The Audio Tab are both set to their default 0. What do you mean by Audio clipping? I just want the Audio to not distort at all so it will sound good inside the program and when I render. My bass boost sounds fine in Audacity and doesn't distort or even touch the red zone. I've also re-exported in Audacity with 48kHz 16 bit stereo PCM WAV uncompressed and that didn't seem to help anything. I'm also happy with the audio spectrum effect. By the way the video is fine i'm happy with that, it's the audio that I need help with. When using the Audio Panel I made sure the layer was selected, but it still seemed to distort, even when turned down. Sorry for the cropped screenshots, I'm pretty sure there aren't any additional audio tracks or adjustments and I don't own Audition, this is why I use Audacity. I suspect that the biggest problem is your bass boost.
If you can't figure it out show us a full screenshot with the modified properties and the levels and waveform of your audio layer or layers revealed and maybe we can help. A normal audio mix is used in the production for the sound, the special track is only used to generate data for the animation. AE prefers the audio in this format.Īlso, when using audio to drive animation I will often do a custom mix of the audio to isolate certain frequencies or levels and render that audio track just to drive the animation.
You can use 32 bit if you like but 44.1 is only the standard for legacy CD production. If you want a different look to the Audio Spectrum effect then you need to monkey with the settings in the Effects Control Panel.īTW, the standard for video (and audio by the way) is 48 kHz 16 bit stereo PCM WAV uncompressed. If the waveform in the timeline looks clipped then your audio is clipping. Changing the gain of the audio track will not change the height that Audio Spectrum or Audio Waveform generates. You need to check the levels values in the timeline. The Audio panel does not change the gain of a Audio levels of a layer unless a layer is selected. I should strongly suggest that you dive into Audition to do your audio mixing and stay up a bit. There is a lot more to audio production than just listening to the speakers. You should also select the layers that contain audio and press the U key twice to check the waveforms. In your case you want to check for additional audio tracks and audio adjustments. The first thing you should do is deselect or select all layers in your composition and then press the U key twice to find all the modified properties. I've also been rendering with Adobe Media Encoder if that helps.Īll my programs are the Creative Cloud 2017 editions.Ībove is the audio area when it is playing the bass parts of the song and the second image is what my video looks like, i've also tried lowering the gain wit the sliders next to the audio area.Īny help would be greatly appreciated as I badly need this video to work.Ĭropped screenshots are not very useful for diagnosing a problem.
My system has no problem running any of these programs and can handle Premiere Pro and After Effects at the same time. My system is a Macbook Air 2015 running the latest version of OSX and the latest After Effects and Audacity. I don't know if there is a problem with my Macbook audio settings or even my Audacity or After Effects settings. I've tried different formats, i've turned the gain down, i've checked the settings for after effects and all of the sound settings seem to match up correctly in Audacity with After Effects. No matter what I do the audio still redlines. So I went back into after effects and noticed that the audio was red lining under the audio tab. I didn't mess with the audio but after I rendered I noticed that the audio had become really distorted on the bass parts of the song. Then I imported this file into After Effects and made a cool music effect to go along with the song. I then exported it as a WAV file at 41hz with 32-bit PCM. I've used Audacity many times to do this and I made sure that the Audio didn't travel into the red area. I wanted to bass boost a song so I imported it into Audacity and added all the required effects needed to bass boost it.