animating text to music outside its own comp

[Jacob Wessler]

Dustin,

I’ve run into this issue many times as well. I echo what Mr. LaRonde says about copying the music track into the new composition and syncing.

I would add, however, that you can make the layer a “guide layer” by right-clicking the layer and select “Guide Layer” (or something equivalent).

When you render, make sure that you have Guide Layers set to Off in your output module and AE won’t render the sound.

Otherwise, you get twice the volume in areas where there is two copies of the same music, and that can be noticable and annoying!

Good Luck,
Jacob

[Kevin Camp]

[Dustin Ward] “Let me know if you need clarification.”

i need clarification… how did you animate the text to the audio? if you used an expression you can link expressions from a property on a layer in one comp to a property on a layer in another comp.

example – if your expression on your text layer was something like this:

thisComp.layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”);

then you could just change ‘thisComp’ in the expression to something like this:

comp(“audio-comp”).layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”);

this will take the audio amplitude values from a comp named ‘audio-comp’, obviously you have your comp’s name there.

if you didn’t use expressions then i think you will want to bring the audio into each comp to work with, as dave and jacob have mentioned…

note that you can add ‘comp markers’ (not layer markers) to the audio comp’s timeline, then take that audio comp into other comps and see the markers (layer markers don’t transfer like that)… i’m not sure if that is any help to your workflow.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Dustin Ward]

yeah this is probably exactly what I need to know, because I set it to move with that expression. Thanks