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Animating wave forms in After Effects using a live audio feed ?
It’s simple to set up the spectrum/waveform effects in Adobe AE to animate to an audio track imported into AE. But I would like to know if there is anyway to make it possible that my spectrum/waveform animates to audio from an external source ? Maybe with using other hardware/software ?
The end result would be a finished spectrum/waveform project created and customized using Adobe AE, that animates when fed live audio from any source.
I’ve seen a couple of ways to manage that on Flash, but I have no experience with Flash at all. Would appreciate your thoughts here.
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Amr,
It sounds like a cool idea, but I don’t believe it’s possible. AE renders out pixels and once they’re set, they’re set.
I would love to be wrong, though…
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysfx
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It is called AFTER Effects…. not PRECEDING Effects 🙂
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If you want to try something completely different, you could (in theory) use Apple’s Quartz Composer to make a custom iTunes visualiser. This of course assumes that you have an Apple Mac and knowledge of (or are willing to give it a go) programming Quartz compositions…and plenty of time! Then you could possibly drive the visualiser with a live audio input source. Maybe. Just an idea – I’ve never tried it myself!
Some details can be found here…
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#featuredarticles/WorkingWithQuartzComposer/ -
With WinAmp you can have it run a visualisation based off of live audio input. I’m a fan of the Milkdrop visualizer, but there are TONS of great ones you can download for WinAmp – many of them very, very customizable without programming experience.
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