• Adobe After Effects

  Ideas on how to recreate this

  Posted by Jackson Redshaw on January 15, 2013 at 2:09 am

  https://shinestudio.com/pitch-perfect-2/

  I’ve tried using Generate>Waveform>Digital but it just doesn’t look right… I can’t get the bars to have square tops, or to look this clear, for example if I zoom up on them with a camera they just look blurry and horrible

  I only want to recreate the first few seconds where it is the waveform by itself, not on the DJ Mixing Interface

  Jackson Redshaw replied 13 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
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  Viktor Tornfors

  January 15, 2013 at 4:34 pm

  Hi!
  This is easily done with shape layers. Shape layers is a pretty overlooked feature of After Effects. But very powerful.

  I put together a project file for you: https://www.tornfors.se/other/waveform_cs5.aep

  I created a shape layer containing a single rectangle, using the rectangle tool. Then i added some properties to the shape layer. These properties can be found by twirling down the shape layer and pressing the arrow with the word “Add:” next to it.

  I added a “repeater”, which just repeats the rectangle to the required amount. I also added “wiggle transform”, set to only wiggle the scale.
  This way it wiggles the scale of each repeated instance of the shape layer independently, creating the waveform-like effect.

  The background grid is also made with shape layers.

  A great site for learning more about shape layers is Mattrunks. This tutorial is a good starting point. https://www.mattrunks.com/en/tutorials/after-effects/shape-layers-sparks

  —————————————
  22 year old motion designer from Sweden.
  https://www.vimeo.com/tornfors
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  Jackson Redshaw

  January 15, 2013 at 11:45 pm

  Hi, thanks for your reply and help! But is there anyway to make the shapes go to the music?

  Thanks
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  Jackson Redshaw

  January 16, 2013 at 1:40 am

  Thanks Heaps! You’re a legend! Just opened it, will do some tweaking and it will be perfect! Thanks!
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  Viktor Tornfors

  January 16, 2013 at 11:05 am

  No problem!

  If you want to make the bars move to the music, you can do that too.

  Put your song into the timeline. With it selected, go up in the menu Animation – Select Keyframe assistant and press Convert audio to keyframes

  You will now get a Null, called Audio Amplitude. If you twirl it down you got your audio amplitude in keyframes there.

  Twirl down the scale property of your Bars-layer. (I think both the wiggle transform scale and the normal layer scale would work. Play around!)

  On the scale property, put this expression:
  temp = thisComp.layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”);
  [value[0], temp];

  And it will move to your beat.

  You could also use the plugin Trapcode Soundkeys. It would give a better result, but it costs money.

  —————————————
  22 year old motion designer from Sweden.
  https://www.vimeo.com/tornfors
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  Jackson Redshaw

  January 16, 2013 at 11:42 am

  Thanks for that, I’ll give it a go.
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  Jackson Redshaw

  February 5, 2013 at 6:57 am

  Hey Again,

  Is there an easy way to zoom along the waveform, having multiple text boxes on top as we fly past?

  Thanks

  Jackson Redshaw
  http://www.youtube.com/MITLRproductions

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