[Laszlo Kovacs]

If you have AE 6.5, try the Typewiter form the ‘Animate Text In’ section of the Text Animate presets. (Help>Text Preset Gallery>Animate Text In)

Laszlo

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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Follow the incerdibly skilled Mr. Ayato’s not-so-incerdibly described tutorial: 🙂

https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae25_e.html

BTW: As far as I remember, Pete’s plugin pack also contains something similar… (TV Pixel)

https://www.petewarden.com

HTH
Laszlo

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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Try this:

https://www.mapresources.com/

Laszlo

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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Add an expression to the property of your choice by Alt+clicking on the stopwatch, and then use the pick whip to link this property to the ‘Audio amplitude’ layer.

HTH

Laszlo

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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Add an expression to the property of your choice by Alt+clicking on the stopwatch, and then use the pick whip to link this property to the ‘Audio amplitude’ layer.

HTH

Laszlo

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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

If you only use the ‘Convert Audio To Keyframes’ (instead of SoundKeys) assistant, it creates a brand new Audio Amplitude layer with all the keyframes from the audio. Now, you only need a simple expression to link these keyframes to any property of a layer. (See the manual.)

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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

If you only use the ‘Convert Audio To Keyframes’ (instead of SoundKeys) assistant, it creates a brand new Audio Amplitude layer with all the keyframes from the audio. Now, you only need a simple expression to link these keyframes to any property of a layer. (See the manual.)

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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V will do the trick, if ‘AICB and Preserve Paths’ checked in the ‘File Handling & Clipboard’ preferences.

HTH
Laszlo

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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

The good ole wav will do as well.
If you preview your animation, use the 0 (null) on the numeric keyboard, instead of the spacebar.

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Life is too short to drink poor wine.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

How about Effects>Simulation>Shatter?

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Life is too short to drink poor wine.