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Animate to the Beat in After Effects with BeatEdit

Did you hear that? It's the sound of a powerful animation workflow. I love animating graphic elements to a good track of music. Over the years I've used a number of methods to make this work. There's the simple method of adding markers on the fly in real time. Or the visual technique of studying the peaks and valleys of the waveform. One of my favorite techniques is converting the music to keyframes and then linking everything up via expressions. If you'd like to take your animations into beast mode, however, then you'll want to check out the BeatEdit plugin. This tool auto-detects the beats in a music track, and then used that beat information to apply animation presets, write markers, repeat keyframes, stagger layers, and much, much more. Read More...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 12 June, 2019

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