Create A Heart Monitor With Expressions

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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

You may think you love After Effects… but how can you really tell until you’ve created a heart monitor that proves the passion is alive and well?! You can’t… I’m sorry, it’s the only way. Jorrit will show some handy expressions within Particular that should help you with any number of projects.

Requirements

  • Trapcode Particular You can download a trial version here.
  • Trapcode Soundkeys You can download a trial version here.

You will also need a selection of music. Plus Members have direct access to the music used in this tutorial. Want the AE Project Files and assets for this tutorial and all of the other tutorials on Aetuts+? Join Ae Plus for just $19/month. You can view the final effect preview video below.

Overview

  • Core Training Value: Will help with your knowledge of expressions working within Particular. Will get you familiar with Soundkeys and what it can be used for.
  • Difficulty: Intermediate

Tutorial

Download Tutorial .flv

File size 148MB

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Discussion 26 Comments

  1. Rafael Braga says:

    Simple but really cool ..

    thanks …

  2. Nice one man! Always love to see expression tutorials!
    What did you say at the end? Oh crap something xD

  3. The Dude says:

    dope stuff man, dope stuff

  4. AdamS says:

    Nice

    thx a lot

  5. Matt says:

    Hey, ayato has a simpler solution that doesn’t involve 3rd party plug-ins or expressions.

  6. Satya Meka says:

    Actually, you can get an easier result with “Write on” plugin and a couple sine wave expressions.

  7. howdy says:

    the higher beaty thingy is called a snare ;)

  8. L1 says:

    Nice tut, but I think the end result would of looked better with just a black background, and a kind of more electro feel to it.

  9. choppre says:

    nice and simple. very useful

  10. Irving says:

    ECG tracings are totally wrong. lol but nice animation nonetheless.

  11. Her Master's Voice says:

    Anyone know where I can get a tutorial for a Flash version of this? I’m trying to do a sort of timeline but what the line to be animated a bit like the heart rate monitor. Tried a few things so far but none working.

    Any help gratefully received.

  12. ramesh says:

    very creative concept of using sound keys ..

  13. ivanex says:

    Muy Bueno gracias….
    pero me quedo mucho mas trabajado el de http://maxafter.com/heartrate.htm
    pero se agadece el aporte ..
    Gracias mil….:D

  14. Blah says:

    I’m getting so sick of watching 30 second ads for 10 second previews…

  15. Liam says:

    the first expression doesn’t work for me. says there’s no property or method named “Y”.

  16. Eleven says:

    It’s been over year since this tutorial got released so the chance someone will/can help me will be small.
    Never the less..

    I’ve got the same problem as Liam.

    Anybody got a solution?! :)

    • Jorrit Schulte says:

      This is a basic Expression problem. you probably forgot the ; Sign at the end of the Y variable.
      variables are case-sensitive, you might have one in upper and the other in lowercase…

      so the expression for particular’s Position XY at the start of the tutorial would be
      t = time % 1;
      X = linear(t,-25, width+25);
      Y = effect(“Particular”)(“Position XY”)[1];

      [X,Y]

  17. Eleven says:

    It all goes well untill i want to add the Height slide, then it gives me an error.

    I’ve made a screenrecording so you can see what happens.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUlAfLOWW6k

  18. Eleven says:

    Problem solved :)

    I forget the *

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