Editing and Animating to Sound with Adobe After Effects

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Free Online Course: Editing and Animating to Sound with Adobe After Effects provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Editing and Animating to Sound with Adobe After Effects is taught by Chris Meyer.

Overview
  • Learn to tightly synchronize your video and animation to your audio—be it music or speech.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Course preview
    • Using the exercise files
    1. Marking Sonic Events
    • Reading an audio waveform
    • Spotting beats in music
    • Placing markers
    • Adding notes
    • Spotting words in dialogue
    • Musical math
    • Creating a click track
    2. Cutting Video to Sound
    • Spotting a soundtrack
    • Cutting video to music
    • Timing visual events to music
    • The timing and feel of transitions
    • Staccato cuts
    • Case study: Cuts and fades
    • Case study: Reading text
    3. Timing Animation to Music
    • Timing a text animation
    • Keyframing effects
    • Matching frame rate to tempo
    • Wiggling in time to music
    • Case study: All together now
    • Time remapping
    4. Having Audio Drive Your Animation
    • Converting audio to keyframes
    • Expressing animations to sound
    • Faux lip sync
    • Motion sketching to music
    Conclusion
    • Goodbye