Blog Post 2/21

 Audio/Music Reacting Effect:

     In creating edits, a majority of the time, the audio is some how syncing to effects or overlays of the video file. I decided to research how to properly do so as it is an important effect and feature to host in these types of videos. Creating an Audio Amplitude layer saves a lot of time as it automatically produces key frames to match with the audio’s beat, treble, etc. Of course this can be adjusted to the according sound levels you like to combine it with. Once effects are in place whether it’s brightness/contrast, or positions, opacity, or even complicated blues, you can then assign the “pick whip” tool (which is enabled for use under the expression tab by pressing alt then on the layer.) to the Audio Amplitude layer for it to them mimic the key frames, syncing the effect with the audio.

    This effect has not been trialed yet however will soon to be in the production phase of this "film." So far this tutorial was the most modern one I could find relating to this subject. I'm extremally excited to see in action, because manually doing this process is extremely time consuming and I hope that this will make this section of editing a lot easier and faster in future projects.