I wonder why a.e. can't do that? Is it a technology thing? you would think that as popular and powerful a.e. is that they could do something like that.
you can play the audio... just park your playhead where you want it to start and hit the "." (period) on the numeric keypad and away you go... It'll play the audio in realtime.
There is actually is a setting somewhere, and it has preview with audio, it might be under comp. settings. I know I turned it on once, and now it always plays audio with previews.
yes the audio plays with the "." button but you do not see the effects and everytime you ram preview it needs to render everything. Is there no other way?