> Having an empty audio track sucks when you import the render into your favorite editing app as you have to add it to the timeline then unlink the audio and delete it.

> more often I forget to add audio when I need it as usually I don't render audio

> I have sometimes meant to export audio and forgotten to open up the Output Module to check the audio box

So, if AE treated an output module with the audio checkbox ON as meaning “output audio if the comp has audio” instead of the current “output audio even if the comp doesn’t have audio”, would that cause trouble for anyone? Presumably that change would fix the above problems, if we also defaulted the audio checkbox ON in the shipping presets.

-DaveS