How to edit to the beat in After Effects
Did you know that you can make items dance to the beat automatically inside Adobe After Effects? In this blog post I’m going to tell you 2 different examples of what I mean and how you can use this in your edits.
How to edit to the beat in After Effects
First, you right-click on your song inside the timeline window, go to “Keyframe Assistant” and click ”Convert Audio to Keyframes”.
This will create a new layer in your composition called “Audio Amplitude”.
Select that layer and click “U” to see all the keyframes for that layer.
Now open your shape layer, select any property that you want to animate, and then click and drag the little “pick whip” icon next to that property (the one looks like a little cinnamon bun) and drop it on the text “Slider” under the text “Both channels”.
Now if you open up your property and type in “value+” at the beginning of the second row, the size goes back to normal and the shape is now dancing to the beat.
But you can also do this with an image, where I’m (in the video that I will link below) taking a super dramatic coffee break because I’m slowly scaling up the image but also changing the “Opacity”-property based on the audio.
Check the video to see the result 👇
🎞 Watch the tutorial here!
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