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Timing animation to audio

Timing animation to audio - After Effects Tutorial

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Timing animation to audio

- [Voiceover] What fun would animating graphics be without a little music to dance to? In this video we're going to lay the groundwork for some well timed graphics. Let's get started right inside of After Effects. So in this project, you can see we have quite a few graphics, and I'm going to go ahead and load this back into my RAM and play it back, so we can kinda see what's going on. I'll move my Current-time Indicator back to the beginning of the project and press the space bar. You want to pay special attention to the Info Panel to see if it's actually playing back in real time. So, as I'm looking at this, it's quite clear that I just have the pie graph animated. All of the rest of the elements still have yet to animate. But, I want the rest of the elements to appear to the beat of the music. And notice, we're not hearing any music. So (laughs) let's go ahead and press the Space bar to stop playback, and I'm gonna go to the project panel. In here, I want to open the folder for…

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