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Previewing and mixing audio - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Previewing and mixing audio
Let's look a little bit at working with audio, previewing it and mixing it. I've imported this clip, and I want to show you a few things you could do with it. Number one, if we have it selected then we get some information about it here in the Project panel, just like any other clip. So, we could tell this is 20 seconds and 10 frames long. We could see the sample rate, 48 KHz and also the bit depth, 24 bits. Also if it's stereo or mono. It says Stereo clip here. If we double-click the clip, as with other types of clips, it open up in the Footage panel except that we don't get a visual representation of that other than that it has a little timeline here. Now if we press the Spacebar, nothing happens. We could RAM preview this, but we could also preview audio only either in the Footage panel or in the Timeline panel by pressing the Period key on the numeric keypad. (Music playing) You press the Period key again to stop it. Also, if you wanted to trim the audio in the same way we trim…
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Contents
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After Effects workflow overview2m 18s
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Bringing elements into After Effects2m 23s
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Adding elements to the Timeline1m 57s
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Working with layers3m 45s
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Creating animation with presets3m 24s
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Applying effects3m 34s
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Creating animation without presets5m 38s
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Previewing your work2m 46s
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Exporting content as a movie file2m 29s
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A showcase of effects2m 34s
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Creating a layer for effects3m 1s
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Applying effects4m 54s
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Animating effect properties4m 29s
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Using Glow5m 34s
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Creating patterns and textures6m 57s
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Creating a fireball7m 9s
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Using the Cycore effects5m 58s
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Adding blur5m 45s
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Creating a galaxy scene from scratch8m 38s
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Distorting objects with effects4m 7s
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Creating and using lens flares4m 21s
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Creating lightning bolts4m 3s
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Viewing random variations with Brainstorm4m 39s
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Understanding spatial interpolation2m 5s
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Creating and adjusting motion paths3m 55s
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Orienting moving objects along a path1m 29s
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Drawing motion with Motion Sketch2m 51s
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Creating pauses in animation3m 6s
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Understanding temporal interpolation1m 56s
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Easing keyframes5m 57s
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About the Graph Editor4m 25s
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