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Timing to audio

Timing to audio - After Effects Tutorial

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Timing to audio

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I finished placing markers in time with my music, and let me show you what I have done here. I've gone ahead and marked the major, big beats in the music, which tend to happen periodically throughout the music track. But I also made less important markers, ones without text, for other beats I found interesting in soundtrack. I've also noted when the panpipe starts and where it goes to a second phrase, because those may indeed trigger events as well. This might be a good time to have something change in the text. I am going to preview and go ahead and listen and watch the time marker to see what I have marked on this track. (music playing) I might go ahead and mark this one additional phrase in this flute here, that little lilting note. I am going to go ahead and hold down Option or Alt, press the Asterisk key and type 'lilt', just to remind myself of what was going on there. Now let's start playing around with the keyframes for our text animation to try to make it line up better with…

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