Editing and Animating to Sound with Adobe After Effects

Learn to tightly synchronize your video and animation to your audio—be it music or speech.

Introduction

• Course preview
• Using the exercise files

1. Marking Sonic Events

• Reading an audio waveform
• Spotting beats in music
• Placing markers
• Adding notes
• Spotting words in dialogue
• Musical math
• Creating a click track

2. Cutting Video to Sound

• Spotting a soundtrack
• Cutting video to music
• Timing visual events to music
• The timing and feel of transitions
• Staccato cuts
• Case study: Cuts and fades
• Case study: Reading text

3. Timing Animation to Music

• Timing a text animation
• Keyframing effects
• Matching frame rate to tempo
• Wiggling in time to music
• Case study: All together now
• Time remapping

4. Having Audio Drive Your Animation

• Converting audio to keyframes
• Expressing animations to sound
• Faux lip sync
• Motion sketching to music

Conclusion

• Goodbye