Donkey noise in After Effects?


I may be going crazy (probably in fact) but last night I was up super late rendering a bunch of things out of After Effects and for some reason they were all failing. I had 5 or 6 renders fail, and then right before bed one of them failed and it made a really loud donkey whinneying noise. Has anyone else ever heard that? Is it an easter egg, or an “undocumented feature?”

I’m going to try to recreate it, but I don’t have high hopes. Let me know if you’ve run into this before.

  • UPDATE

    • It turns out the noise is just the default render error noise. I guess I’ve been lucky enough to not hear it before! Oh yeah, it’s also more like a sheep than a donkey.

    Walter Soyka said this on the creative cow post

    You can trigger the goat sound effect manually in AE by shift-clicking on the second line of the effects panel (the one that identifies which layer is selected, i.e., “Comp 1 • Black Solid”).

    There you go!

    ~ by ross on August 15, 2011.

    Posted in After Effects, glitch

    2 Responses to “Donkey noise in After Effects?”

    1. You can find the noise at: “Macintosh HD/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS5/Adobe After Effects CS5.app/Contents/Resources/sounds/rnd_fail.wav”

      To get into the application folder, right click Adobe After Effects CS5.app and choose “Show Package Contents.”

      Justin said this on August 16, 2011 at 6:26 am

    2. It’s a sheep, not a donkey.

      http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79e6a.html#WS3bf812c123007fb86de75801126f898b350-8000

      Todd Kopriva said this on August 16, 2011 at 5:29 pm

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