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How are you all doing?
My name is VerticDesigns
and welcome back to another tutorial here on this channel.
For this video I'm going to show you how to create your own audio spectrum
and this is something that takes about 5 to 10 minutes
it is really quick and simple.
So this is an example of what I've done and this is what we're going to be doing today.
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What you want to do first of all is close this down.
Make sure you have your audio file
and you want to have at least a background or a footage for the background.
Now that you've got these two files you can minimize this and open up your After Effects.
In here we want to create a new composition just like any other project
and first of all we start with the height and width.
This is going to be 1920 x 1080.
Keep it on locked
and have it on square pixels.
Leave the frame rate on 30
you could put it up to 60 but there's not much difference.
Leave it on full
and you want to change the duration to how long your song actually is.
For me I'm just going to leave it as it is because I'm just showing you an example
and leave the background on it's default colour.
Press OK
Once this is loaded you can now start importing your two files
so if you open up your folder.
Highlight them both and just drag them in
is the easiest way to do it. You can go to file and open that work's just as well
and once again drag them down to the timeline.
First of all we want to edit the background
so if you press S
and you change this to 50%.
This is for the scale.
We want it to be half of what it was before
and another thing that we're going to do is, we're going to click on this little
lock area.
Next thing to do is, you want to go to the audio file
right click on it
and go to rename.
In here you want to press CTRL + C
and you want to go to the text tool.
Left click and drag it out
and then press CTRL + V.
This will just paste in your text
and we're definitely not going to want the end bit.
We just want the title of it
so all the way up to here.
Change the font to something else that is more BOLD
and something that makes it easier to see.
So I'm going to go with this one.
Make it
all the way up to, let's say 50. We'll leave it as it is
and just drag these corners back into
It's original size.
Once you've done that, go to the first tool
and move it where you want.
If the anchor point bothers you being there
you can go to the
tool right here for the achor point and you can move it to the center.
Next thing to do is to press CTRL + D
this will duplicate it
and using the arrow keys again and holding SHIFT, we can press the down arrow.
Move it a little bit to the right.
We're also going to edit the text by going to the text tool
highlighting this, so if you just click on it once and press CTRL + A.
That will select it all.
and if you change this to something like 40
and give it a different font to make it seem like a sub-title.
Next thing that we're going to do is, we're going to make the text stand out more
so if you go to the tab that says "effects and presets".
If you don't see this one showing you can go to window and then it should be this one right here.
Just make sure it's ticked.
Once you're in here you type in "glow".
(typing)
it is normally the bottom one and just apply it to this text right here
and you will notice now it has a glow but, if we do the oppasite for the "glow threshold"
and we put this to 90.
It will actually start giving it more of a shadow.
So let's go with 97. As you can see now it has more of a shadow
and same thing goes for the sub-title.
Except from this time, we're only going to go with 95
and that should be good.
Alright so we're actually now ready to add in the visual effects.
by right clicking in the empty area
and going to new solid.
Leave it on the default colour and the default size.
Press OK
and go to effects
go down to generate and then audio spectrum.
Now this is the default one. We're going to edit this to make it a lot better
so just change the settings to what you prefer.
For me I only want like half of this
and we can move it around, where we want it to go
and just like i said before
it makes it a lot easier because if we had the background un-locked
it would move the background instead of this.
You want to make sure you pay attention to start frequency and end frequency
because these are the two which you will have to mess about with to get it correct
because it is different for every song so, just keep on messing with these two.
Now the first one I should of mentioned is, the audio layer
because this is the one that actually links up the music with the visuals.
So if you click on here and go to number 4 where you music is
and you will see that now it actually does play.
But we don't want it to to go both ways, we just want it to go up so we change the side to A
and that will only make it go up.
Right now it is really small, so let's change this to 36.
This to 130 I believe
or maybe more than that.
This one to 50.
Maximum height is going to be 1500.
This is going to be 100 and ...
50? .. or 60? I believe
150.
Thickness to 5.
We don't want any feathering so leave that on 0
and I think that's pretty much it.
As you can see it's actually starting to get there.
It's just right now, it's really thin.
So what we can do about that is we can get a effect called mini..
Now that you found MiniMax, you just want to drag it in
and you want to change the radius to 6
and just change the colour to alpha and colour.
And now you'll see that it's actually applied.
And if we look at this..
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it is just what we've been looking at.
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in the preview.
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Example.
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and that is pretty much it.
I hope this video was helpful.
If it was, give it a thumbs up!
Leave a comment on what you though of the video.
In the future I will make more videos with different effects each video.
So, you've probably seen a lot from trap nation
where they use the circle.
We're going to look at how to make that and other..
visual effects
which react with music.
This has been VerticDesigns and I will see you all in my next video.
Bye! :)
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the amount of times I said "actually"... *facepalm*
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