From the course: Editing and Animating to Sound with Adobe After Effects

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Musical math

Musical math

So far, we've been dealing with what frame audio events happen on. So just this particular frame, frame number 24 of the composition, is where this phrase starts. >> Well, I can see I'm going to have to keep my eye on the road. >> It's also how I've been marking duration, two seconds, two frames. However, you'll find when you start working with other people, such as musicians, or other effects inside your editing program or After Effects, they may want to talk in a different language. Not frames, but maybe beats or beats per minute, or how many seconds, or how many fractions of a second something is. To convert between these different worlds of frames, beats, and seconds, you're going to need to know a little bit of math. Well I've put a comp inside your exercise files that goes over some of this most basic math. Let's talk some basic terminology, particularly when you're working with musicians, which you will be when you're having a soundtrack composed for your video. You are used to…

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