• Apple Motion

  Animating audio waveforms to shapes?

  Posted by Bryce Douglass on January 18, 2013 at 3:43 am

  Hello

  I have Apple Motion version 5.0.6. With my older version of Motion that came with Final Cut Pro 7 I could select a behavior that would create keyframes from audio wave forms that I could then sync up to shapes like for example a mouth and it would animate to the audio waveform. However the only keyframes for audio I find in version 5.0.6 is fade and pan. Do you know how I achieve this same animation for mouth in my current version?

  Thanks

  Bryce

  Don Smith replied 13 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  Jeff Greenberg

  January 18, 2013 at 12:23 pm

  It’s a parameter behavior called Audio.

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  Jeff I. Greenberg
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  Bryce Douglass

  January 18, 2013 at 5:59 pm

  [Jeff Greenberg] “It’s a parameter behavior called Audio.”

  That’s what I’m under. There is only pan and fade mode.
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  Jeff Greenberg

  January 18, 2013 at 6:17 pm

  It’s not in the audio behaviors. It’s in the parameter behaviors.

  Alternatively, you can right click on a parameter (such as scale) and attach a behavior to that parameter.

  bug me if you can’t find it.
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  Bryce Douglass

  January 18, 2013 at 8:10 pm

  I found it. when I create a separate layer for the mouth to move via the audio behavior the layer moves up instead of down. i have to selected for position Y. How do I get it to move down up apposed to up and down?
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  Jeff Greenberg

  January 18, 2013 at 8:54 pm

  Change the scale (you’ll have to click in the field) to -1. That inverts the data. You can adjust the scale higher/lower for a greater/lesser effect

  Best,

  Jeff I. Greenberg
  Author/Master Instructor/Speaker/Consulting
  My contact info and more
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  Bryce Douglass

  January 18, 2013 at 10:15 pm

  Another problem is this. When I mask out the mouth I put a black layer behind it. Theoretically animating the mouth mask should cause black to appear underneath the mouth layer right? Cause it’s not.
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  Don Smith

  January 21, 2013 at 10:58 am

  It sounds like you’re animating the mask and not animating the mouth, which should be cut out from the face and be a separate layer. Animating the mask would only make it move over the face.

  Forget the mask.

  Cut the mouth from the face into a separate layer. On the face, have black where the missing mouth is.

  Animate the mouth (lower lip to chin, actually).

  Don Smith

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