100, there will be 100 breakpoints and so on.
If it’s 12, there will be 12 breaking points in your waveform. You’ll see Displayed Samples and this controls the amount of peaks and valleys you see. You’ll see the effect show up in your Effects pane and from here you should be able to adjust the effect settings. Once the solid is created, type “audio waveform” into Effects & Presets and drag onto the solid.įirst thing you should do is adjust “Audio Layer.” Switch from the current layer to whatever layer is your desired audio layer. Don’t worry about what color it is because it won’t matter in a minute.
Go to Layer > New > Solid and make your solid the size of your composition.
From there, you can adjust your audio as needed, but in our case don’t worry about that for now. To start, pull your audio file down into your composition timeline. Using the Audio Waveform Effect – After EffectsĪfter Effects has an awesome built-in Audio Waveform effect that is easy to use.