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  Creating an Animated Volume Meter — help…

  Posted by Jason Brown on August 21, 2006 at 12:29 pm

  Hey Everyone,

  I am having a strange issue. I used the “Creating an Animated Volume Meter” tutorial to create a similar VU meter moving to music.

  Everything works correctly…until I nest the moving meter into another comp. If the comp is 320 x 240, it works fine. But if I change the size to what I need to output it to (720 x 486) the audio drops out of sync with the visual movement of the meters.

  I have re-applied the audio to keyframes in the new comp…tried to relink, and it still is out of sync. I am working at 29.97fps NTSC D1.

  Any ideas?

  Stefan Tapper replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Stefan Tapper

  August 21, 2006 at 3:25 pm

  Hi,

  I’d say it’s a framerate issue but i’ve just tested it with a volume meter i made a while ago. I can nest it to any framerate – still synced.

  You may want to try my projectfile(ae7):
  https://staromedia.com/web-content/Player.7z

  The psd template of the player is a freebie from the adobe exchange center, the audio is from absoluttracks.com(free but not for commercial use).

  PS: You may get some error mesages because the expressions are written within a german version of ae. Some layer or effectnames are may be different in your language.
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  Stefan Tapper

  August 21, 2006 at 3:28 pm

  Erm.. one question come to mind after my post: do you have your audiofile in the nested comp? I have and it works, maybe thats the problem.

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