• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  working with beat/music/bpm

  Posted by Bert Brown on September 11, 2008 at 10:17 pm

  i’m looking for a way to know what beat in a measure the time cursor is on in a project.

  i’ve got a comp that’s at four frames per second and starts on frame 1. I’m wondering how i can get it so i can link to a null that displays the beat of the measure – so it doesnt turn over to 5, but instead goes right back to 1, 2, 3, 4 – and loops that throughout the project.

  basically i want certain thing to happen on the 1 and 3, and different things to happen on the 2 and 4 of any measure.

  Bert Brown replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  September 12, 2008 at 5:04 am

  An expression like this maybe:

  timeToFrames(time)%4 + 1

  Dan
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  Bert Brown

  September 12, 2008 at 1:54 pm

  perfect. thanks again, dan!

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