Create a Sound Reacting 3D Waveform Animation without 3rd Party Plugins
Tutorial Details
- Program: After Effects
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Run Time: 42:43 min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Satya has done it again. He’s managed to re-wire and re-invent tools that we’ve had for a long time to create what would normally only be possible with third party plugins. For all of you that ask for tutorials that only use built-in plugins, this one is for you. Satya has even created a free preset so you don’t have to re-create the effect from scratch every time.
Satya also wrote an article on his blog comparing the techniques explained in this tutorial to Trapcode Soundkeys.
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where can i get a windows version of this plugin for cs4 please. I love what u have done just need to run it on windows,thanks derek
It runs on both Win and Mac CS3/CS4
I dont have (Spectrum Analysis Animation Preset) can u plz tell me where can i get this
or will u plz upload this for me so that i can use it for practise
too bad the tutorial doesn’t work..it’s beautiful!!!!
This is a well presented tutorial and great effect . thank you.
anyone know how i could get text to emerge from the effect at the end?
a great tutorial, cool. thanks
anyone know how i can get text to emerge from the effect at the end?
Thanks so much for sharing this! Very cool.
“U know, ehh, you know….but you know, that’s a…you know….”
Why the tutorial guys smoke so much weed before do it?
YOU SAY YOU KNOW WAY TOO MUCH!!! Good tutorial though
Does this tutorial have the AE source files?
Will the plugin work on CS5?
yes
hey, hats off to you for this wonderful tutorial and it was wonderfully explained.
learned a lots lots from this one.
keep posting such wonders
thnx
well this looks really cool. I D/L the tutorial but have hit a snag.
I have CS4 Ver.9 and there is no Spectrum Analysis Preset.
Ditto what Sunil says. Is this a layer preset you created?
Cannot locate it. If you have, with all the expressions, how it was done,
what was used, how created etc, then this was all for not.
To use without any plug ins? but a preset that is not available?
Seems there are expressions, and parenting here that was created and omitted.
So how does one follow this tutorial?
DONK ME!!! There it was LMAO. Somehow page must have skipped ..
I beg your pardon, sorry.
God knows the tutorial is good but you can’t understand him and should use a highlighter for cursor. This was annoying to listen to.
Hey! really cool idea for a tutorial, sadly I got stuck with spectrum analyzer, get some kind of a error that says it’s not right file or whatever, please let me know, how fix this, using mac ;) or gimme link where I can download ur AE File, than i will figure it out meself;) already many thanks!
bye
Maybe the analyzer works, but how do I put it on my cs4 after effects, cuz if i just import it, it says it’s a wrong kind file, someone who knows, please help me
Hi man! When I tray to aplicate the spectrum analyzer in the first Null object the soft say this: “After Effects advertencia: la clase “Effect” no tiene ninguna propiedad ni metodo con el nombre layer. Expresión deshabilitada.
Error en la linea 1.
Comp.: “Comp1″
Capa: 1 (“Nulo 1″)
Propiedad: “Deslizador”
Thanks! ;)
Great tutorial but Im working in CS5! Is there any chance of getting an updated set of presets? Im always making promo videos for record label and this type of effect is ideal for teaser videos!
If not keep up the good work anyway ;)
love aftr effcts
this is cool but i have cs5, where i can get the spectrum analizer for cs5? please!!
HI! SUCH A GREAT TUTORIAL, BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM, CANNOT CONVERT SLIDER TO KEYFRAMES :O
when you make a tutorial show all fucking expresions when you edit tutorial from 2 parts at 8:11 time !
Hey! This tutorial is great, I learnt a lot of new things. Here is my result: http://vimeo.com/30807727
omg…i must have finished over a 100 tutorials, i could not follow this guy, irritating, unclear, confusing, time consuming
a faliure , a waist of time, dont bother
Is there a CS5 Version-plugin for this? It would be soooo amazing.
Thx :D
omg i wasted my time following this. He does not show the end result. WTF. Wasted 42 mins of my life
I’d just like to thank the creator of this video tutorial. I hadn’t touched After Effects before in my life and this was a great introduction. I was looking to create a music video to promote my new tracks, I feel I achieved exactly what I wanted and learned a lot of things. Thanks so much!!