• Adobe After Effects

  Visualise waveform from mp3/wav ?

  Posted by Bas V breugel on November 13, 2015 at 2:50 pm

  I would like to visualise the entire length of the wav/mp3 with its waveform.

  Like so:
  

  Effects such as Trapcode soundkeys, Audio Spectrum/Waveform shows audio react, or the equiliser at that point in time. But im looking for a ‘simple’ show the complete wavetrack. No animation, just copying the waveform from a audiofile to a visual.

  Cant seem to find an effect which makes this possible? Any suggestions??

  Michael Szalapski replied 10 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Szalapski

  November 13, 2015 at 4:30 pm

  I don’t know of any plugin that would even show the entire waveform. However, I do have a possible solution.

  In your AE timeline, select your audio layer and press LL to reveal the waveform. (Or open it in Audition if you want a couple different options for how it should look.)
  Do a screen grab (Print Screen button on the PC, I think cmd+shift+f4 on the Mac, but I forget – do a Google search). Bring that image into Photoshop and crop it, color it, etc., and save it. Then you can import that Photoshop file into AE. 🙂

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