Synchronizing Video to Music

[Mylenium]

That pretty much depends on what you mean by “synchronized to music”. Is it a smooth, slick edit? Rhythmic fades/ transitions? Rhythmical blinking of any kind? Do you want to sync to the “mood” or to certain beats? Without knowing what footage and what sounds/ music, this could easily turn into an endless thread, so if you can provide some more info, it would be easier to provide some guidance.

Mylenium

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[Mike Clasby]

Here are two tuts from Adobe, the first one is step by step with AE’s “Convert Audio To Keyframes”:

Using Music to Animate Text

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=396&xml=aft6audio

Let Sound Drive the Motion

https://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100172&xml=aft6ttsound

The same principal is used with Trapcode

[Mylenium]

Goodness, do you ever leave the computer, yikesmikes? Your posts are so elaborate and detailed, it’s kinda spooky. ;O)

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[Ut1l1ty]

Sorry for being a little vague. Here are some more details. The music track is going to be an trance/techno song and I do want video/images syncing with the beats. The way I think about it is how an equalizer will react to the music. Another example would be a text layer scaling up and down as the volume of the song gets louder and softer.

[Mike Clasby]

Here’s an equalizer:

Creating an Animated Volume Meter by Talid Al Khatib

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/al_khatib_talid/volume_meter/index.html

And you might want to check out the AE Plugins Render> Audio Spectrum or Audio Waveform, they take their movement from an audio layer and will also climb onto a mask that’s on the layer (choice of mask under “Path”), apply these effects to solid layers or image layers.

[Ut1l1ty]

I have used the waveform plugin before, I did NOT know that you could apply it as a mask though. I’ll definitely try and do that equalizer as well. Thanks for the links.

[Mike Clasby]

Leave the computer? I don’t understand.

It’s like marriage, ’til death do us part.