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After Effects and music ?
Hello,
I have to visualize music for a project. I want to make the animation in After Effects (visualization schould be done with shapes).
I know that After Effects plays the music when I watch the RAM preview. But is there a possibility to play the music the whole time ? I want to synchronize the music with the movement of the shapes.
Thanks a lot for your help
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3 Replies
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I think I haven´t writte it clear enough what I mean.
I want to work in the timeline, animate the shapes and while i work at the shapes i want to put them syncron to the parts of the music where it fits.
How I would for example work in Premiere Pro. Scroll through the footage and listen to the music simultaneously.It´s just when I am looking through the animation it´s not possible to listen to the sound.
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As Dave has pointed out, you can’t “play” without RAM previewing, but these tips may be helpful to you:
You can scrub audio if you hold down Command/Ctrl while dragging the playhead.
You can open the waveform and sync to its peaks and valleys. -
There´s another thing I usually do ti give me more of a visual reference.
Before I start animating I select the sound layer on the timeline and play it (pressing ” , ” on the keypad) and I keep hitin’ ” * ” on the same keypad to add markers to the layer whenever I feel necessary (say according to the beat or some special moments).
That along with Jason´s tips can help a lot. Helps me all the time. But don´t forget, it´s a bit of a pain down in there anyway.
It takes time and pacience. So good luck.
Cheers.
ninguem.
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