Audio Rendering Problems

Question

Hello all,
I searched through previous discussions about this, but couldn't find a solution that worked or that I hadn't already tried.
I'm currently working on a class project to make a movie intro, and I want to put it to music from the film I am doing it on. When I RAM preview the video, I have no problems at all. However, when I render it, the audio does not play at all. I know about going into the output module to check the box for Audio Output. However, despite clicking it, the audio does not work at all when I render it, whether it be a quicktime or flv file.
In my frustration to get this working, I've created a new project file with only the audio in it. I've tried turning up the decibals and turning up the volume on my system and speakers as high as they can go, still there's no audio.
I'm still a failry new user to After affects, and this issue is driving me nuts. Would anyone have an idea of what the issue could be? Thanks.

Answer 1

I am running on Mac OSX. I just tried rendering in audio only as a WAV file, but despite multiple attempts the WAV file will does not get created. I cleared my desktop of everything else and set the Output to there, but no WAV file gets created. There are no audio effects being used with this project. I re-imported my Audio into after affects, and the waveforms are there. I also imported the file the into Adobe Soundbooth, the waveforms showed, and I was able to save a Quicktime movie of it with working audio. When you ask "MP use perhaps?" I assume that means media player? I've been using quicktime thus far, and as said before the WAV files aren't even showing up, so I cannot say if that would be a problem for those. I tried closing all programs aside from the Media player for my rendered files, and still no sound. So it seems there isn't anything interfering with it.
Posting some render logs with the settings I used to see if that helps.
Render Log for when I try to render as a Quicktime:
Adobe After Effects v9.0.2 (Macintosh Intel) render log for project “AE Project”
Rendering started on 3/29/10 at 1:17:18 PM
  3/29/10 1:17:18 PM: Starting composition “15 Jamukha Is Following 2”.
  Render Settings: Best Settings
  Quality: Best
  Resolution: Full
  Size: 720 x 480
  Proxy Use: Use No Proxies
  Effects: Current Settings
  Disk Cache: Read Only
  Color Depth: Current Settings
  Frame Blending: On for Checked Layers
  Field Render: Off
  Pulldown: Off
  Motion Blur: On for Checked Layers
  Use OpenGL: Off
  Solos: Current Settings
  Time Span: Work Area
  Start: 0;00;00;00
  End: 0;01;29;22
  Duration: 0;01;29;23
  Frame Rate: 29.97 (comp)
  Guide Layers: All Off
  Storage Overflow: On
  Skip Existing Files: Off
  Output Module: Lossless
  Output To: Macintosh HD:Users:Sam:Desktop:Test.mov
  Format: QuickTime Movie
  Output Info: Animation
  Output Info: Spatial Quality = Most (100)
  Include: Source XMP Metadata
  Output Audio: 48.000 kHz / 16 bit / Stereo
  Channels: RGB
  Depth: Millions of Colors
  Color: Premultiplied
  Stretch: -
  Crop: -
  Final Size: 720 x 480
  Profile:  -
  Embed Profile: 
  Post-Render Action: None
  3/29/10 1:18:01 PM: Finished composition “15 Jamukha Is Following 2”.
  Total Time Elapsed: 43 Seconds
Log closed on 3/29/10 at 1:18:02 PM
Render Log for when I try to render as a WAV file:
Adobe After Effects v9.0.2 (Macintosh Intel) render log for project “AE Project”
Rendering started on 3/29/10 at 1:23:26 PM
  3/29/10 1:23:26 PM: Starting composition “15 Jamukha Is Following 2”.
  Render Settings: Best Settings
  Quality: Best
  Resolution: Full
  Size: 720 x 480
  Proxy Use: Use No Proxies
  Effects: Current Settings
  Disk Cache: Read Only
  Color Depth: Current Settings
  Frame Blending: On for Checked Layers
  Field Render: Off
  Pulldown: Off
  Motion Blur: On for Checked Layers
  Use OpenGL: Off
  Solos: Current Settings
  Time Span: Work Area
  Start: 0;00;00;00
  End: 0;01;29;22
  Duration: 0;01;29;23
  Frame Rate: 29.97 (comp)
  Guide Layers: All Off
  Storage Overflow: On
  Skip Existing Files: Off
  Output Module: Lossless
  Output To: Macintosh HD:Users:Sam:Desktop:Testing.wav
  Format: WAV
  Output Info: -
  Output Audio: 48.000 kHz / 16 bit / Stereo
  Channels: -
  Depth: -
  Color: -
  Stretch: -
  Crop: -
  Final Size: -
  Profile:  -
  Embed Profile: 
  Post-Render Action: None
  3/29/10 1:23:28 PM: Finished composition “15 Jamukha Is Following 2”.
  Total Time Elapsed: 2 Seconds
Log closed on 3/29/10 at 1:23:29 PM
My audio hardware for my MacBook Pro:
Intel High Definition Audio:
  Device ID:    0x106B00A4
  Audio ID:    58
  Available Devices:
  Speaker:
  Connection:    Internal
  Headphone:
  Connection:    Combo
  Internal Microphone:
  Connection:    Internal
  Line In:
  Connection:    Combo
  S/P-DIF Out:
  Connection:    Combo
  S/P-DIF In:
  Connection:    Combo