No editing to audio in After Effects

[John Hammond]

Thanks to everyone who responded, I learned some good tips that will speed my work up, like CTRL+ Drag the cti, CTRL+Click for a 1 sec preview,
And I’d never thought of using * for markers on an audio preview, maybe that will get rid of the half a second time delay I always get when placing markers to a video.

Thanks,

and Mark, as for why space bar isn’t play.. well imagine if a photoshop user came to AE and the space wasn’t the hand tool they would be just as uncomfortable as you are with having to use 0 on num. keypad. Anyway you obviously don’t get the real difference between Space and 0, and I can’t be bothered to explain to you.

John

[Trev Chee]

Can you hear the audio play “by it’s self” or only in scrubbing? I can’t quite hear the audio good enough to time it with text i want to create to the beat of the music

[Michael Szalapski]

First of all, posting in an old thread is not a good way to initiate discussion on a new issue. You should have started your own thread. Also, there are a lot of good answers in this thread.

Now, to your issue:
Yes, you can hear just the audio. As already mentioned more than once in this thread, pressing . on the numeric keypad will play just the audio.

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[Mark Onat]

Thanks for your exact and functional response. Now that I’m up in FCP fully, I’ll be sticking to it for the audio. Your suggestion makes anything that might have to be timed in AE viable.

[Trev Chee]

What do you mean “I cut between two different colors or just black & white” do you put an effect on the clip that turns the footage white/black on the beat? Is it still white/black when you import to AE? But I don’t wanna have this flashing white/black every beat. I guess you some how take it out afterwards ?

[Michael Szalapski]

He’s saying you make a couple of solid things in your editing program (in your case, it’s Final Cut) one white and one black. Then you cut between them on the beat. Then you export that as a video and import it into AE.
Yes; it’ll be a video of flashing black and white.
Then you have the beats you need to cut to.
When you have your animation set up in AE, you can turn the eyeball of the black and white flashing layer off since you don’t need it anymore.

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