From the course: After Effects CC 2021: Character Animation Essential Training
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Work with audio tracks - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2021: Character Animation Essential Training
Work with audio tracks
- [Instructor] When animating characters, you might find the need to animate to an audio track, be it music or a voice-over. We'll examine the tools here, that will help you set up your audio for reference, inside of After Effects. In this example, I've got two audio files in my project window, and here let's double click on the first one. And when we preview, you can hear it's the voice-over for our guitar girl. - The D chord is for Distraction. The second file is the guitar strum itself. And when we preview, we can hear this. (upbeat music) Yes (chuckles) sweet, crunchy guitar tones I love it. Inside of our footage window however, you note that we're not seeing any wave forms, audio wave forms. If you're unfamiliar, audio wave forms are a visual representation of what the audio is doing. In order to see those audio wave forms, let's go ahead and take both of these audio files, and put them into their own comp.…
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Principles of animation2m 12s
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Add and adjust keys7m 34s
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Use the graph editor: Speed5m 57s
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Use the graph editor: Value4m 56s
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Looping animation6m 54s
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Motion paths9m 9s
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Work with audio tracks5m 54s
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Switch art for lip sync9m 14s
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Animate with motion sketch5m 33s
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