Audio Reactant Time Remapping

Audio Reactant Time Remapping

on May 17th 2010 with 24 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy!
  • Difficulty: Beginner
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to do some experimental animation on a footage based on music. For this effect we’ll dive into learning time remapping, waveform and a bit about expressions as well.

Tutorial

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File size 120MB

 
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  • Loay Emad

    This Audio is too abstracty for my taste even though the effect is cool.

  • rachid

    very nice inspiration! congrats

  • G-Funky

    That video is having a seizure. Looks like it could be an effect used for NIN music video.

  • walterson
  • http://www.francois-tarlie.com francoisgfx

    hi,

    thx guys for the comments.

    @Loay Emad : the example might be a bit extreme, but this technic would work with pretty much any kind of music though.

    @walterson : by seeing a lot of those reel with some Hecq song on the background, I did wonder how people were doing this, and try to figure a way. I can’t tell if they did it like that or not, though !

    • Walterson

      I’m from Brazil, sorry my English is not very good. Whenever I saw these videos and was wondering how they made these effects?

      With the help of your turorial was easier …

      Congratulations!

      Other video with cool effects:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwe10iDlFQo

      And this other video that has some legal effect at the end:

      effects at 0:43, 0:47

      http://vimeo.com/4179532

      If you can make more tutorials on these effects would help a lot.

      Do you have website or blog?

      • http://www.francois-tarlier.com francoisgfx

        thx

        I don’t think I can give more information about this, I did cover pretty much all of it. All of your example could be done with the approach I give in this tutorial. especially with the slider control to be able to freeze time as I show it. then it’s just a matter of tweaking the values

        my website : http://www.francois-tarlier.com

  • http://movies.ewebtutorial.com/ mohit

    very nice inspiration! congrats, I am a visiting first time this site and i think its awesome..
    visit this site movies.ewebtutorial.com

  • pippo

    as the good things of life….simple and sweet…ty

  • Ramzes

    This is very cool effect actually! we can use it for many different reasons.Just need creativity..Good stuff

  • Bikash Ghaju

    This effect is really very cool. Great Job !

  • migel

    Thanks for this tutorial. I’m having a problem with expression for this however. after trying to add the +time to end of expression (to get effect to line up with time of footage instead of showing the same frames) I’m getting error message and AE is disabling expression. any thoughts on why this would be?

    Thx

    • http://www.francois-tarlier.com francoisgfx

      just copy/paste your expression, you probably missed a character or something.

  • sdyf

    AWESOME

  • Charlie

    …where can i get that sound…where did You get it?…..thanks

  • Raquel

    Hey Dude…. The mov file is missing from the source file can you please uploud?

    Great tutortial btw

    thanks

  • Hampus

    Hey

    Great Tutorial.

    The source file is missing from the project file. Could you be so kind and reupload it or send it to me?

    Hampus Nordenson

  • AntoxaGray

    How do you make expressions shown on speed/value graph? I only see as if it has no expression (even if it works fine).

  • Artem

    Hi. I have a problem on this step
    ((thisComp.layer(“Bass”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”)/50)*)+time
    Getting error message: After Effects warning: ) does not have a value Expression disabled.

    • Roman Komurka

      ((thisComp.layer(“Bass”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”)/50)*___missing value here___)+time

      You are trying to multiply but you didn’t specify any value. The correct expression would be for example:

      ((thisComp.layer(“Bass”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”)/50)*2)+time

  • Krista

    hi! is there also a way to: +time + previous time?
    I want my movie to move forward to whole time on the beat, not to make steps back and forward.

    • Brandon

      +++ I also need to know how to write the expression so that the frames only move forward, never backward. If anyone can help, It would be greatly appreciated.

  • Nik

    This was incredibly hard to follow, mostly because I could barely hear him. Also you guys should make transcript of the tutorials instead of only using videos.

  • http://tapefyce.nl ozhan

    Super nice tutorial. Good and relaxed voice. Thank you very much, it helped me a lot!