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Work with audio tracks

Work with audio tracks - After Effects Tutorial

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Work with audio tracks

- [Instructor] When animating characters, you might find the need to animate to an audio track, be it music or a voice-over. We'll examine the tools here, that will help you set up your audio for reference, inside of After Effects. In this example, I've got two audio files in my project window, and here let's double click on the first one. And when we preview, you can hear it's the voice-over for our guitar girl. - The D chord is for Distraction. The second file is the guitar strum itself. And when we preview, we can hear this. (upbeat music) Yes (chuckles) sweet, crunchy guitar tones I love it. Inside of our footage window however, you note that we're not seeing any wave forms, audio wave forms. If you're unfamiliar, audio wave forms are a visual representation of what the audio is doing. In order to see those audio wave forms, let's go ahead and take both of these audio files, and put them into their own comp.…

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