How to Sync Motion Typography to Audio - Adobe After Effects Tutorial

everybody this is an a bronze and today i i'm gonna show you how distinct motion typography to audio because as you know most of our favorites not centered on the old what's kind of like crap started cramping when it gets a crap on the internet out that the versus code now before we can get into stinking up any typography we have to get into how after affects actually treats audio the first complaint ive always heard a boat aftereffects an audio is that people think the after-effects has remove the audio or aftereffects has gotten rid of it or its muting it or whatever appears now you can tell if after faxes correctly imported your audio select away our hit they'll tell that's bill place antal pull-up this interesting set of peaks and valleys which you may recognize as an audio waveform this will show you that after affects has indeed recognize that you've given it a piece of audio to look at now the reason you can't he read when you pressed a start to preview is because space bar is a preview without audio this is what it is if you want to preview it with audio you have to ramp review it they have to make sure in your preview window which is found by going window preview and that's this thing by making sure that this here looks like it does here with not muted audio menu ramp review will go through will render and then it'll crank along some sound with it or another option you can press the decimal point on the number pad uh... or a period because i'll remember pals called a decimal uh... camellia located next to the zero which is to ramp reviews cell hitting period will just cause it to play it only the audio and the last and perhaps most important us is a feature where you hold down command on a mac or control on a pc and then scrub through by clicking and dragging on the timeline now adolescent basically what it does is it's going to play the sound at the point where the play head is as you're dragging it if you drank slowly you'll hear slow audio could write quickly here fast audio uh... if you can drag a normal you know regulus the daniel here audio at regular speed for our purposes that's probably the most interesting feature because it allows you to go in and very quickly figure m when sounds are starting stopping when words are starting and finishing and when you look at the time line here that'll give you another indication when you're waveform is up where the animations need to be starting stopping finishing all that good stuff so we've got our tools and now we can actually get into the nitty-gritty part of sinking up audio and motion topography so now you have the tools let's use them take your audio which is imported in your project drag it on to new composition from here you click on this little button over here compositions settings change not deliver frame size you want frame rates badly baba all of that is not important what is important is that you select your audio tape l bill and bring it into waveform now go ahead and listened to the part of the track fear interested in doing this is what we're gonna work on uh... you do have a heading period for liberty said now here's the method i use i make all of my text new layers hit commander control t bring up here text tool click anywhere start typing hit the return key or enter key over on the number of had to accept your text we can do this for sense to show you how it goes now you want to arrange the use uh... the way you want them to finish so let's work backwards how do we want this whole thing then pay everybody in this is kevin abrams i write this is the most exciting thing but was trying to prove talking point here so now the next thing to do is to determine how you want them to animate on how do you want everything to get here so let's go with something really basic liked everything go ahead three frames one two three and then let's set up positions you frame for all of them by hitting p than hit my stopwatch go back to beginning and his grandma everything just drag it off the frame and there's gonna pop in dislike that www not very exciting yet but you know stick with me here easy easel your key frames and then it's time to sink it up to the points at which everything comes on so let's go ahead this is the actual stinking up we're gonna go through you're gonna find where each sound work each word starts so hate starts here so your honor frame hit the square bracket the open square bracket and il shift the layer to be there and then every starts around there buck body starts above their and you can even seen here where the starts are were kind of peaks 'cause when you start speaking could peaks let's continue uh... radio because t h family yet is uh... because they have them moving right along almost there doing that so far and finally abrams how does that work k everybody missus evidence metabolism not too bad actually skyler are coming together moment one of my move body up a little bit because it sounds like happening too late we don't see it soon enough so those are the kinds of adjustments you gonna wanna make as you ram preview look through but in general you always want the animation of the things coming on to be starting as the word is starting and to be finished before the word is done so you can read it and here it at the same time for those three simple we just animated this whole nonsense really fast uh... it doesn't look very good well i'm talking about this i'm gonna go ahead and guess it is up a little bit one of the things you want to make sure of when you're doing motion that biographies is that your tax actually add something to what you're saying this tax year that you're looking at certainly doesn't and in fact it's pretty boring this is one of the most boring font choices certainly the movement isn't very exciting and though it is correctly sink tough it doesn't really add anything to what it's cinco to always try to plan to the you want to see more with the words than what the words are actually saying the best typography is are generally the ones that sustain interest that add something special and that has been followed and planned thoroughly if it's just a random smattering of words that's great but was that giving you that you didn't already have by reading it or just by listening to it always when you're making motion typography consider what your adding and consider or the typography can do for you for example if your doing emotion photography of the monologue from the movie fight club maybe consider at the end have a camera pullback in revealed that all the text made a bar of soap that's the thing or that it form some kind of i cannot her fee from the film and as the words come in try to have the words mean something or have them somehow go along with what you're looking at uh... you know obviously i did a pretty bad job in the intro because i've not even using words but anyway i hope that this helps you to make typography faster so that you can take your time away from the sinking up of audio to the waveform which is cumbersome and move more of your activities towards the creative side of stuff in making something pretty unique and taking that planning time and i think in time to try new ideas and try new ways of animating things in just experimenting with what you're making uh... i live in abrams i will be very excited to see what people make of this by ever big fan of motion photog for myself i do but for people uh... if you want one done i guess let me know or is this tutorial and then you can make one for yourself he would go uh... but i said i want to know you guys do so respond to this finger tweed at near whatever among the twitter and i'm on the face book and just send me the stuff you make i'd love to see the motion to biographies you guys come up with and uh... yeah i guess that's it if you have any questions about this and you techniques and tools but i'm talking about you know mostly this is pretty boring thing eleven aerospace for watching and i'll see around the internet