Converting audio to keyframes

BLANK AUDIO. So far in this course, we've been …manually determining where the important points are in our soundtrack, beat music, …or dialog and and then manually placing key frames or otherwise manually typing …in values such as frame rates to match the spacings of those markers. …However, it is possible in a program like After Effects to have the audio waveform …itself directly drive your animation. And that's what we're going to focus on …in this final chapter. I'm going to go ahead and close these …compositions and open up 4.1 Audio to Keyframes Starter.…

Here we have a soundtrack LL, which reveals its waveform and we have a pair …of speaker cones that we'd like to animate in time to that soundtrack. …Well, I could indeed spot the soundtrack and hand keyframe, something such as a …bulge effect on these speakers or we can do this the automated way. …The first thing we need to do is have this sound converted directly into some …form of key frame value that we can later have drive another parameter. …