How to get your sound into Cinema 4D and view the sound wave in the timeline. Supported formats include .WAV and .AIFF, but sometimes if these have strange compressions or bit rates you’ll need to Export them from Quicktime pro in different formats. I know that for a while, audio exported directly out of Soundtrack as a .wav did not work until it was again exported from QT Pro.

For additional information go to Help> Search: Sound.

A couple of things about sound:

• If you do offset your sound like I discussed, it’s best to also do a 2D sound rendering from the Timeline so that you have a sound track that is also offset the correct amount to go with your animation.
• CINEMA 4D uses the default audio application of the system on which it is installed (e.g. Windows Media Player for Windows systems or QuickTime for Macintosh systems).
• Currently, CINEMA 4D supports uncompressed ..WAV and .AIF formats with 11.22 and 44 kHz as well as 8-bit, 16-bit, mono and stereo sound. File labels will be recognized. Unfortunately many available audio applications (shareware editors, QuickTime, etc.) do not always conform to .WAV file format guidelines, causing their files to be flawed. Therefore, if CINEMA 4D has problems loading a sound file try converting the sound file with an alternate application. Although other applications may load the same flawed audio files, CINEMA 4D’s rigid control (ensureS higher quality) of audio files prevents flawed files from being loaded. If an audio file is flawed you may experience program crashes or unwanted behavior.