Anyone have Experience with After Effects

[Strong Lead]

I am using Adobe After Effects for the first time and here is a very basic question.

I started a new project and I imported a few video files.

I have no sound for the videos....what am I doing wrong?

I can play the vids but still no sound...I am stumped.

The online help is no picnic so I thought I would come here.

[SonicVanguard]

I've used various flavors of After Effects for many years - it's not a program you can just pickup and use. Go through the tutorials that came with the program - they will give you a decent foundation to utilize the program.

[Shadar Logoth]

After Effects should accept pretty much any video file you import. Do the files work outside of After Effects? Perhaps they are corrupt.
Otherwise make sure the audio tracks are not muted on the timeline.
Also try rendering the clip, cause it may just be that After Effects won't play the audio and video while your working on the project.

[Kov-Ice]

Did you import from your camera into Premiere Pro and leave the firewire plugged in? That can cause sound to not play in PPro, so maybe it bleeds over into AE as well?

[SonicVanguard]

Did you import from your camera into Premiere Pro and leave the firewire plugged in? That can cause sound to not play in PPro, so maybe it bleeds over into AE as well?
That's a simple fix - just disable sound to the exterior IEEE1394 device in Premiere Pro. Same in AE.