After Effects : Quick Music Visualizer Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- A tutorial on creating a music visualizer in After Effects 2019. This is also known as an Audio Visualizer or audio spectrum. This will make music react with waveforms around a circle.
Expression:
value + (comp("Song").layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider")) / 4
Music:
"Ashes by Eunoia & Sappheiros" is free to use on UA-cam as long as you give credits to the artists.
Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: • 'Ashes' by @western186...
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Love how straight to the point you are, made it really easy to follow. Thanks dude!
this is so straight and to the point. thanks for not spending 2 minutes explaining what you are about to explain. you are the real MVP
obligatory omg nelward I love your music come to brazil !!
DUDE! I've been looking for a tutorial to do this and I found the best one on youtube. Not even kidding! Learnt everything I needed to in only 3 minutes!
Possibly the best Adobe tutorial I've ever watched!
You just helped me save so much time. This was amazing. Thank you so much for this channel. You're literally helping me change my life around with these skills you're breaking down for us. Much love from Las Vegas!!!
WOW. And I was struggling with free limited online tools all this time. And results were meh. This is much much quicker and you come up with really unique designs. GREAT. Thank you stranger, who made this tutorial available.
clever usage of AE, this is what I have subscribed for, thanks man
Some people just go on and on and then they promote ads but you, you get right to the point keep :) thank you so much for this amazing tutorial
2:00 add logo 2 Main comp
2:15 add "Song" comp - Add audio - Rightclicik audo - Keyframe assitant - Convert audio to keyframes. Delete Left & Right, keep Both channels keyframes
2:38 Precompose logo in Main comp
2:57 Effects > Distort - Magnify (Magnification:100, Size: 1000, Blending mode: None)
_! Make sure your comp names are Case-correct, if you get expression error, read it and try to understand what's said._
I got expression error. Trying to figure out why. What do you mean by 'Comp names case-correct"?
@@robertgiannini4349 Make sure that the name of the comp is with capital S and not lowercase s
wow, so simple!! thank u for making this, i'm SO excited to make more stunning visualizers for my music🎶🎶
This is amazing. Thanks. You have skills! I didn't even know this was possible without plugins or something.
you are a life saver,thank you very very much for this tutorial
That expression is killer tho you can make legit anything do anything to music with that
Thanks so much! This was incredibly helpful for a first timer in After Effects!!! You rock!
Super cool and super easy! thanks! I wanted a linear effect, so I'll just ignore that polar coordinates part. :)
Thank you man! This was a big help and I like your videos so much because you don't waste time like those other 10-minute watch time UA-camrs and you get straight to the point
Very awesome, extremally helpful, really appreciate it :D The tutorial still fits with the latest versions in 2023.
This tutorial is amazing. Kudos to you!
Now this is how tutorial is supposed to be made! not some 30min garbage with ummms an eeeeems.
Brilliant!
I watch this video like at least 3 times a year because i forget the expression, so thanks hell yeah
Its funny how a formal after effects class would turn this into a week long lesson.
Thank you so much!
I've been using this visualizer on my mashup channel!
many thanks man, excellent content! keep it up.
Lifesaver, coming in clutch every time, thank you :)
OMG! THANKS! I HAVE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR A MIRROR ONE!
wow this is crazy hard lol but you make it seem so easy.
Awesome man keep up the great work
Man I love this tutorial!
this guys voice love it
Hey, bro, before i start I just wanna say thanks for all of your videos. Super good and straight to the point.
Ok, now here's my question...
How do I make the audio spectrum more sensitve? Or do I just make the music louder?
damn good and easy video tutorial. thank you
You know to do magic wowwww thank youuuuu😍😍😍😍😍
it says - This project contains an expression error : error 1 of 1 ?
SAME
Subscribed and will be looking at more of your tutorials.
exactly what I was looking for. Do you know how to add the particles?
I am having a problem and I hope you can assist. The audio that I am trying to do is couple of minutes, is there a way to extend this? Additionally, the spectrum is not very sensitive and it is bearly showing movement but audio is high and lastly the sound is getting slow or chewy after couple of seconds. I hope you can just explain each setting on your video is for what so we can be able to adjust to our requirement.
At the beginning when making the "main" composition, set the duration to however long your video/audio is.
You can click the project render window to select all go to composition then composition settings and then change the end time to the length of the song add a little bit extra and cut in later in premiere pro
@@daolpuer6593 Thanks. This needs to be in the video
Thanks man, that's so helpful ♥️👍
Big subscribe your videos are quick and to the point i love it.. I wish I had found you like a year earlier
Im your new Subscriber!!!!! Thank you for all the tutorials!
so easy love the way he made.
Thanks, it worked very well
Will this work for voice, not music? Great tutorial - straight to the porint. thank you so much!
i think so
Late reply, but yes! It will react to all audio
Is there any way to do it so the screen shakes when lower frequencies hit?
Thankz Brother.Love from Srilanka❤️
thanks man this helped so much
Super useful! Thanks!!
To save EVERYONE time, when you create your new composition, make sure that the clip length isnt set to 30 seconds. There is no way to change it after.
ofc there is. Just go to Composition - Composition Settings & change the Length
@@alex9play Thank you!
First time user? Changing the comp length is super simple, just extend it in the comp settings.
Wtf...im using ae for 1week and i know how to change the settings 😂
LOL. You’re just spreading lies. Comp settings big dog 😂
Damn straight! Thanks man!
I played with it and expanded the composition to 1 hour and the background and the visualizer to 1 hour as well. The only thing that seems to have stopped working is the magnify distort effect and I can't figure how where to put that back or modify it.
amazing, thanks so much :)
wow..that's cool! thanks.
That tutorial was fire
Good for making outro! Thanks
New composition
Name it main - ok
Add song and background to project
Right click in composition
go new solid.
Name it audio spectrum
Make sure it is black
Go to effects and choose audio spectrum
Drag in on the audio spectrum layer
Under audio spectrum on left change the layer to the song.
Set Start point to 0
Set End point to 960
End Freq 125
Freq Band 500
Max H 1250
Audio Duration 180
Audio offset -20
Thickness 7
Side option B
Go to effects and search for Polar Coords
Drag to spectrum layer
On left set type to Rect to polar and interpolation to 100
Go to effects search for mirror and drag on spectrum layer
Set reflection centre to 960
Top menu select effect, generate, 4-color gradient
Choose your colors
Drag logo in the middle of spectrum.
Next top menu, composition, new composition
Name it song, click ok.
Drag the same music and drop it on new composition
Right click the song, go to keyframe assistant, then convert audio to keyframes
Under audio amplitude, click effects and delete the left and right channels
Go back to main, make sure your background image is last in the list.
Holding Shift, select the top 3 items
Right click, select precompose
Make sure move all attributes is selected
Go to effects and search for magnify
Drag it on precomposition
In the setting above change magnification to 100
Then size to 1100
Set blend mode to none
Hold ALT key click the stop watch beside Magnification
In the bottom paste the following exression
value + (comp("Song").layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider")) / 4
Expression error coming...Help please
Really Helpful 😍😍
great thank you
Thank you mate :)
thank you!!!
Hi there, when inputting all these settings can I change music tracks while keeping the visuals? If there is, could you share please or anyone reading this post.
Thanks for the tutorial!! I'm having an issue though where my magnify feature stops after 30 seconds, but my composition is 1:56. Do you have any idea how I could fix this? Thanks in advance! :)
Having this same issue, if anyone knows a fix, I'd like to hear it too.
Go to your Song comp and do the convert audio to keyframes again so re-make the "beat map" for the Magnify.
bro go to etid tab then conposition edit then change end time to 4 min
Wow!!! U R THE BEST!💥 Could you please tell us 1100px is the size of what? You specify it in Magnify
very helpful thanks!
Is there any way to increase the sensitivity of the spectrum? Sort of like a threshold value I guess. So lower volume sounds still display some change? Awesome tutorial btw.
Tweak around with your max height, start frequency, and end frequency
thanks dude
I actually had an additional question, how easy is it and what is the process of swapping out the mp3 and processing another one and another one, etc etc? I am trying to improve the workflow to do many of these. What steps are absolutely required to accomplish this?
the finish audio is coming out wonky and its going fast then slow..
I know this is a late reply, but:
That's just AE previewing it.
It won't be like that when you export.
I'm confused about what the pre-comp does. Could we not just add the song (with convert keyframes) into the main composition and whip/reference the magnification to the audio keyframe slider?
EDIT: ah wait, the magnify effect comes afterwards.. nvmd
i really like the background image that you used in the visualizer, where can i find images similar to that?
I have done everything exactly how you did it twice now. The logo and audio visualizer are pulsing to the music but no sound is playing at all. Any ideas?
I’m having the same problem
if anyone else is having this issue, make sure the song is in the main comp as well. So you will have the song in 2 different comps - the main one, and it's own one with keyframes
I can't set the magnification to 100. The letters turn red and its always writes 103,5. What should I do?
Thanks!
I appreciate the donation!!
Every time I try this, it just makes a solid clean circle - nothing pops out past the circle
Did you manage to solve this? I'm having the same issue. Any thoughts @Adobeinaminute?
@@ADHDologia I did, but I honestly can't replicate how. I just re-opened AE and it randomly worked lol. good luck
@@tralfmusic thanks mate! I did the same and it didn't work, so I tried messing with the values of the audio visualizer effect until I saw something move. Turns out I had to increase the maximum height by a LOT. 😅
Also there's another effect in AE2020 called Audio Waveform and I prefer that one!
@@ADHDologia Haha, glad to hear it! We'll need to show each others' visualizers when we've completed a good one 😅
@@tralfmusic love that. I'll let you know when I'm done with mine 😂
Is it possible to specify the expression to react to certain frequencies of the song?
Can you please show how to make visualizer like rising wave?
I love this tutorial but I have an issue. I am doing this for an hour long mix set and the problem I am having is the logo and the visualizer disappear after about 30 seconds.
Great video!!!
I was wondering if there was a way to use this with my OBS (for streaming) so that it would work with any music play.
Great tutorial once again. The render takes a long long time though! Or is that just me?
normally it takes a good cpu or maybe a powerful gpu to render faster. sometimes the render is just too large, and that's just too bad
It works but I'm not sure why it slowes down hella at some parts and the pitch of the voice audio changes to very low.... I followed all the instructions correctly.... not sure what the issue is
Wonderful tutorial thank you! Question. After following all the steps I can only get 30 seconds of video and audio. how do I get to view the whole song?
Have you figured it out?
@@LayzLizard I did thank you!
perfect
it very nice and thank you but I didn't get why you create Song Composition
So, in that expression in the precomp for magnify it needs to reference another composition with the audio layer with keyframe data so that not only does the middle image bounce to the audio but the outer audio spectrum does as well.
Nice!
can i save it as a template?
Yeah, you will just have to do the last step (pre-compose / magnify) again and relink your audio.
lot of help
For a smoother reaction, I would highly recommend Trap Code Sound Keys, by RedGiant
magic
thanks for the help, any way u could post template of these awesome tuts?
The effect stops after 30 seconds for me and I don't understand why.
Is it possible to export this as a MOGRT so that the audio file can be changed in Premier?
Followed all steps there, thank you, but tell me, is my laptop to slow or did i do something wrong, because when i start to listen to it, per spacebar, it only looks like 20 frames per seconds or so..
Whenever i do this my song gets really slow any help? the farther you go the slower it gets is it supposed to be like this
perhaps that's just After Effects running slowly. Unless I'm mistaken it shouldn't render at that speed
a mistake here the ''s'' of song in the code is must in small latter's
tysm
After doing this i can render it out right or I have to do something else before rendering it?
after I go to change it to 960 I does not let me go over to effect
when i followed this, my song is only 30 seconds long. When i open the song file in a mediaplayer, it says its 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
1:30 saving my part
Hi, is there any scrip to do some steps on a key press? I used this method and tuned it for my like but i wanted to process more files, but cant find any solution to batch them anywhere.
why does slider isn't accepted in the expression?