Steve Blacker
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Good idea – I’m constantly clicking that reload button to update PS an Illustrator files.. I’m on it.
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As far as I’m aware, I think right-clicking the file in the Project Panel and choosing “Reload footage” is the only way.
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Here’s another look using the same music track, just different colours, waveform density, height, etc.
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There is another way to create a waveform, but again, you’d basically have to save a frame in After Effects to keep a static copy. The benefit to this method being that you can customise the look to a large extent and save it with an alpha channel.
Create a solid in AE and apply the effect “Audio Waveform”.
Import a music track to your project, and point the Audio Waveform effect to the music layer. Play with the settings and scrub through the timeline until you get a frame you like, then go to “Composition, Save Frame As…” in the menu bar to save the image.
Here’s an example attached:
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You could visit soundcloud.com and lo
ok at some artist pages and just screen-capture the waveforms.
Or open a song in your audio editor, i.e. Adobe Audition and screen capture the waveform there.
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Also, a lot of that kind of stuff is done using shape layers and the animatable properties associated with them, e.g. trim paths, scale, slew, all that stuff. Oh, and lots of easing.
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Sounds like you’re on the right track re: linear wipe for your animation. To get a waveform image, simply do a Google image search for “audio waveform”. Hundreds of examples pop up.
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What type of audio file are you using? If you are using an MP3 file, don’t. After Effects doesn’t play nice with MP3 files. Convert it to WAV and you should see those sync problems go away.
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Came across this page – you’ve probably already seen it if you’ve been searching for answers, but I thought I’d paste the link anyway…
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS510B8F17-8644-43ce-977F-96784840A64B.html
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Ah, OK. In that case, not sure. Haven’t dealt with that file type before in AE.
