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Spotting hit points

Spotting hit points - After Effects Tutorial

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Spotting hit points

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One of the tricks to effectively using audio in your After Effects animation is to make sure that the audio is actually appropriate to your animation. Like this is a very fun animation of these penguins dancing around, but the music is more of like a cool jazz sort of thing. Let's see how they work together. Press 0 to RAM preview. (music playing) Maybe, but I'm not convinced. Let's try another audio track. I go down to my Sources folder, and I am going to bring in a track called Playhouse.aif. That's another format After Effects accepts. I will drag it in here. I'll turn off the speaker, or the audio mute for my other audio track. Put them close together so I can keep an eye on them. Now let's try the Playhouse track. Go to RAM preview. (music playing) Yeah! That's a funner piece of music. I think that has more of the vibe of the penguins. I am going to use that one instead and delete the CoolGroove music. Ideally, I want to line up parts of the video or the animation to my…

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