In this course, Chris Meyer teaches you how to "read" an audio waveform to spot the most interesting points to animate to, and then presents a variety of ideas for cutting video and animating movements to match your soundtrack. This includes timing transitions, making staccato cuts, matching the frame rate to the tempo, wiggling in time, expressing animations to sound, motion sketching to music, and more. Although these tricks will be demonstrated inside Adobe After Effects, the techniques themselves are applicable to virtually any editing or animation package.

This course was created and produced by Chris and Trish Meyer. We are honored to host this content in our library.

Topics include:

• Reading an audio waveform
• Spotting "hit points" in dialog and music
• Placing markers
• Creating a click track
• Cutting, crossfading, and time-warping video to music
• Timing visual events to music
• Timing animation to music
• Converting audio to keyframes
• Motion sketching to music