One Equalizer to Rule Them All…

[Michael Szalapski]

If I’m not mistaken he means when it peaks he wants it to be white and to hold until that level peaks again. This would require different levels to be white at different times.
You could, of course, do it by hand, but I’m also going to take a wild stab in the dark that he wants this to happen automatically.
I’m not sure how to do this off the top of my head, it would require me to think. And I’m a bit past thinking at this point; it was a very creative day at work and my brain’s a bit gone.

– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

[Wes Townsend]

Yes, not only would the top bar turn white and remain white while the other blue bars dropped, but ideally that white bar would decend slowly until the blue bar pops up again, at which point the decended white bar would dissapear, and a new white one would appear at the peak again.

I know it\’s a tall order, and I\’d be happy with the peaked white bar to remain at the top until the blue bars peaked again.

I don\’t think sound keys can do this, because it just sends a trigger at a specific height, and doesn\’t have an understand of \”maximum\” height.

Wes Townsend
Owner/Senior Designer
Garbanzo Grafix
garbanzo.tv

[Wes Townsend]

Well, dodged the bullet and talked the client out of this one. The solution I went with is just precomping the soundkeys scope, then alpha-matting a blue grid on top. At the beginning and end of the music, I just adjusted the blue to white for all the bars (a fraction of a second each).

Wes Townsend
Owner/Senior Designer
Garbanzo Grafix
garbanzo.tv