You have something that really draws your viewer in, makes him receive your message better, and makes them even want to see that piece over again because they had such a good time watching it. However, when you do tie together sound and visuals, the result truly is greater than the sum of the parts. At worst, one might even distract from the other one, making the viewer listen to something when something more important is going on on screen at this moment. Now, when sound and visuals aren't synchronized, at best one may dilute the effort of the other one. Therefore, in this course I want to share with you some of those techniques so you can improve the impact of your visuals as well. And we really feel that that understanding of sound and music has given us a distinct advantage, when it came time to edit video, animate 3D objects, or otherwise key frame a motion graphics animation. Although my wife Trish and I are probably better known for our visual work, we both originally came from the music industry. We are honored to host this content in our library. This course was created and produced by Chris and Trish Meyer.

Although these tricks will be demonstrated inside Adobe After Effects, the techniques themselves are applicable to virtually any editing or animation package. This includes timing transitions, making staccato cuts, matching the frame rate to the tempo, wiggling in time, expressing animations to sound, motion sketching to music, and more. In this course, Chris Meyer teaches you how to 'read' an audio waveform to spot the most interesting points to animate to, and then presents a variety of ideas for cutting video and animating movements to match your soundtrack. If you cut video to follow major events in the soundtrack, or use audio to drive animation with the help of keyframe assistants, expressions, and effects, you can create a more compelling cinematic experience. Want to raise the impact of your edits and animations? One of the secrets is to tightly synchronize them to your audio-be it music or speech.

Hear audio in after effects