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Sync your video effects to any audio with this easy-to-follow video tutorial.

Are you creating a lyric video? Do you need to sync a specific element to your soundtrack? No matter the project, this After Effects tutorial has you covered. The video covers two important elements when it comes to audio reaction. The first part shows you how to covert your song into audio keyframes, which will allow you to sync to any parameter in After Effects. The second part covers specific audio reaction effects that can be great for displaying the beats of a song. Whatever you are looking to do as far as audio reaction goes, this tutorial will get you started.

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Takeaways from This Tutorial

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• How to use any soundtrack and set up your composition for synchronization.
• How to use an expression to audio react any parameter in After Effects.
• Creating an audio spectrum and waveform that reacts to your music.

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You can follow along with this tutorial by downloading the free project and assets folder. Inside, you’ll have the project files, images, and a watermarked copy of “City Cruising” by Mattijs Muller — which you can license from PremiumBeat.com.

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Understanding the Audio Reaction Expression

After you have converted your audio layer to keyframes, a new null object will appear in your timeline. Bring up the keyframes and go to the graph editor.

Alt+click the stopwatch for the Both Channels Slider parameter and type the expression “ease(value,10,30,15,30).”

The first numerical value should be the an average of the lower dips in your song. The second value should be an average of the louder areas of your song. You can view this information by hovering over the keyframes in the graph editor. The third and fourth values represent how minimal and intense you want your audio reaction to be. Be sure to experiment with the last two values to get the reaction you are looking for.

Audio React After Effects Tutorial

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Learn how to make your titles and images move to the beat with this quick After Effects tutorial.

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In this video tutorial, we’ll learn how to make your text or images move to the beat of your soundtrack. This technique is very popular in all types of online content with beat-heavy soundtracks. So let’s get started adding some energy to your video.

The tutorial by Justin Odisho covers the basics for animating your text to music. Importantly, the second half of the video covers smoothing out the motions, adding certain effects to your texts, and controlling your movements even further. Let’s take a look at the key points for the effect.

So first things first, create a text layer. After Effects will then allow you to break your song down into keyframes. Right-click the file, select Keyframe Assistant > Convert Audio to Keyframes. This will create a “Audio Amplitude” layer that holds keyframes based on the volume of the song that will allow you to break down the song’s channels (left, right or both). You’ll see a keyframe for every second of the beat. You can also break down the song and see every beat with the Graph Editor tool.

After Effects gives you options for how you want the text (or image) to react to beat — such as changes in scale, opacity, or position. Just open up the text layer to view these options, and play around with the different effects under the Transform options. This versatility gives users more control over their animations. Justin demonstrates this in his tutorial by increasing the scale of the text (hold down Alt/Option and hit Scale keyframe).

This will open up Expression Keyframes. Choose the expression pick-whip “Swirl” key and drag it up to the slider. Once you’ve done this, you can prevent the text scale from changing too drastically in size from beat to beat by adding + [100,100]. The text will stay at the original size despite certain jumps in volume and pace.

Another quick solution for smoothing out some of these keyframes is to highlight them and move on over to the Smoother panel. This tool will blend your keyframes together, so Justin recommends playing around with the tolerance to see what looks better.

After Effects Audio React Expression

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Do you have any tips for animating graphics to music in After Effects? Let us know in the comments.

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