{"id":14105,"date":"2012-10-02T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=14105"},"modified":"2012-10-02T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T18:26:54","slug":"beat-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/beat-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Beat Assistant’ Automates Music Timing in After Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Animate video and graphics to a music beat in After Effects! \u00a0‘Beat Assistant’ automates much of this process, cutting down keyframing and making your edit more dynamic.<\/h2>\n

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We’re big advocates of taking the steps to make music work with your video editing or motion design, instead of against it. \u00a0Recently we covered an essential editing trick – laying out markers in your animation or video editing timeline to identify beats<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0This technique is useful for determining where to make cuts in your footage, as well as identifying points where you can edit the a music track to shorten or lengthen it.<\/p>\n

A new plugin by software developer Mamoworld aims to simply the process of cutting to the beat in After Effects.<\/strong> \u00a0Beat Assistant uses music analyzation technology to identity the beats per minute<\/strong> in a track. \u00a0From there, it will mark the beats on an AE timeline using a default or custom annotation (marking every other beat, every bar, etc).<\/p>\n

However, the real magic of Beat\u00a0Assistant\u00a0is the auto keyframing function<\/strong> which can be set to modify the attributes of a layer (or layers) based on the beats in a music track. \u00a0Take a look:<\/p>\n