View Audio Waveforms in Adobe After Effects

View Audio Waveforms in Adobe After Effects

by Alec Maassen

on Dec 24, 2013 at 11:22:30 pm

I am trying to time some particle animations to a song and I imported the song into my timeline, but I cannot see the waveforms. I was wondering if there is anyway to see the waveforms that way its really easy to time just right.

Re: View Audio Waveforms in Adobe After Effects

by Todd Kopriva

on Dec 25, 2013 at 12:45:23 am

See this section of After Effects Help for the keyboard shortcut for showing audio waveforms:
http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/keyboard-shortcuts-reference.htm...

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Re: View Audio Waveforms in Adobe After Effects

by Joseph W. Bourke

on Dec 25, 2013 at 3:44:32 pm

Just select the layer and type "LL". There are numerous other shortcuts as Todd pointed you to.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

Re: View Audio Waveforms in Adobe After Effects

by Dave LaRonde

on Dec 26, 2013 at 3:50:31 pm

...and I've also found that scrubbing the audio and using layer markers on the audio layer really help. Both are VERY useful techniques.

Dave LaRonde
Promotion Producer
KGAN (CBS) & KFXA (Fox) Cedar Rapids, IA

Re: View Audio Waveforms in Adobe After Effects

by Alec Maassen

on Jan 6, 2014 at 10:06:26 pm

Thanks guys, I actually figured it out right after I made this posting. All I did was open after effects and I realized it was right in front of my eyes haha.