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Can you sync an audio editor with AE? (How can we match audio?)
Matching Audio to animation (and vise versa) is a nightmare in After Effects. But I don’t blame it, it’s not an audio editor.
Splitting layers and editing audio outside of AE is not an option.
There needs to be a way to sync timelines with an extranal editor. In the audio world there is something called “Re-wire” where you can sync two audio apps together. Is there anything that works with AE?
What is normal work-flow for this sorta thing?
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3 Replies
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Thanks Dave,
This project is about syncing animation up to a Voice over. The voice artist spoke too fast on some parts, so I may want to extend the end of a sentence before the next sentence starts. It’s very common and I don’t think it’s unusual at all.
Think of a Pixar movie. The voice actor does not make one take, the audio parts must be synced to the animation. For the timing to be right you need to have cuts in the audio.
It would be nice to have a simple non-destructive slice tool that splits a clip, sorta like what happens in a multitrack editor. But I guess this is asking too much.
The only solution to me is to slice every sentence and phrase of your voice over and import the separate clips into AE. The you can move the clips around.
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Mr. Thomas
For syncing a voice over in After Effects, you can first use Adobe Premiere to Transcribe your speech to text which is in metadata window.
Give a look to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLZ-dCc7Wco
You can transfer this XMP metadata to After Effects which will help for syncing graphics with audio.
Vishesh Arora
VFX and Motion Graphics ArtistBlog:
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It sounds to me like your animation is complete and you won’t be changing it any more, and the only problem left is syncing audio. If that’s the case, I would say do it outside of AE in something like Final Cut or Premiere that can handle audio better than AE and provides the non-destructive slicing capability that you’re wanting. Export your AE comp to ProRes or another uncompressed codec, bring that into your NLE, then splice and re-time audio from there.
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