After Effects Audio Spectrum Tutorial (Audio Waveform - No Plugin)

Creating visual effects for music and getting the audio to react with the effects. This is a tutorial of how to create a audio spectrum and getting a smooth audio waveform with no plugins. We take a look at after effects cc/cs6 and creating a basic audio waveform, one that looks like monstercat.
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[@MrTheChris25]

Hello
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Can this audio spectrum be added to a video of Filmora ?

[@dirtycarpet6134]

this tutorial is only for mac os ?

[@Omarbg95]

Thanks for Sharing!!!!!!!! and Greetings from México Wey!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MysticMech]

How would i move this over to Premier Pro?
thanks in advance.

[@fanninana]

You saved me from a whole day's worth of stress in 8 minutes. Thank you, truly !

[@scape.]

facts

[@TheSpicySimon]

4:36

[@HussainAlMarkhi]

That's it Thank you

[@user-dj6zy4bc5r]

lmao

[@bazzyi9294]

*Now it's time to start the video*

[@sdmjam]

thanks!!!!

[@rinoffixzakalilytheeditor9879]

Thanksss

[@ilay_ux]

Thank you man. Seriously. I see so many vids with the exact same & simple spectrum, but whenever I search for a tutorial on it, all I get are wavy ones. Thank you

[@TheGangsterRH]

0:00 Text editing
4:36 Audio spectrum

[@adamantii]

Thank you for saving 4 minutes and 36 seconds of my life

[@MrAydinminer]

Thank You A Million Times! These Tutorials Are EXACTLY What I Needed! I Just Installed After Effect And This is PERFECT For My Musics! Thanks again

[@VerticDesigns]

It's all good and im glad to hear

[@hahah2769]

Z3D how did u download ae?

[@MrAydinminer]

get adobe creative cloud and then buy after effects?

[@hahah2769]

Z3D price?

[@MrAydinminer]

@@hahah2769 48 dollars lol

[@pinoyhits7775]

Short and straight to the point. Thanks man!

[@chadridgeway7171]

it took him 5 min to even place the audio spectrum effect !

[@p3rformer]

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

[@johnsonpappachan602]

Me tooo

[@magnusarulepp9161]

Thanks man! Now i can do my own effects for my beats :) thanks again, subscribed too

[@DethronerX]

Thanks!
4:39 = Actual video, as the title.

[@paulasantos2107]

Very outstanding, thanks a lot for your help.

[@VerticDesigns]

No problem and thanks

[@Acedia8938]

yooo dude thanks! i've been looking how to pull off something like minimax can for ages now. thanks for showing us how to do it :D

[@VerticDesigns]

No worries and yeh it's a pretty underrated effect that's very useful

[@wyatt8470]

Awesome explainer I have learnt how to use after effects for the first time without getting headache.

[@witchycat15]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

[@nokompass]

"Effects and Presents" xD Great video tho

[@VerticDesigns]

Haha

[@nokompass]

:)

[@Astrionn]

Very helpful man thanks ! Great vid !

[@Hipernt]

main video starts in 4:36
you are welcome

[@thetrvth2245]

Clean, precise and very helpful.. Thank you

[@VerticDesigns]

You know it ;) and no problem

[@GreatestSportsHighLights]

Thank you!!
Good to see it done without fancy plugins!!
thanx again!

[@FlushaTheWolfy]

Most useful VDo for new editors +nightcore makers

[@garalancia]

4:37 is the start of Audio Spectrum tutorial

[@5MadMovieMakers]

thanks

[@wolfetheanimator]

Thanks Man You just saved my day

[@pwl4576]

Super helpful. Thank you! I have no idea what the 'minimax' effect does or means but it's saved my life. As have you.

[@VerticDesigns]

Yh it basically makes the bars into squares and no worries gald it was a helpful video

[@CaptainBedtime]

man, the last time i tried a flat top visualizer, i had to manually copy/paste the spectrum 5 times
wish i knew minimax was a thing LOL!
thanks for the tutorial! i'll never have to flood my CPU again 😭💖😂

[@VerticDesigns]

Oh dam haha yeh you'll definitely be putting less pressure on cpu now but to be honest it would be something id also do lol so it's understandable

[@YADGIRI]

Youu are the best. Thank you very much

[@shreemandpe]

Thanks so much! The circular ends on the stock visualizer annoyed me so much with how overused they are, the Minimax trick was amazing!

Straight to the point, thanks a lot!

[@ChaioftheEast07]

thank you sooo much! your tutorial helps me a lot.

[@deusavani6228]

NIce, short and very simple/easy to follow

[@MartianMoon]

Fantastic tutorial thank you!

[@VerticDesigns]

Thanks 😁 and you're welcome

[@iamhmmmguy]

Great Work Man

[@yeeyay_]

wow this video is so helpful(especially about 'maximum' effect) :D Thanks!!

[@thepositiveguy1726]

Really easy to understand...I appreciate the post :)

[@VerticDesigns]

No problem 👍

[@nmelody4414]

I know it's a little late but when I export it, it gets to 36gb, is it normal for a video to be that big or am I exporting it the wrong way?

[@FreeEmpowerWisdom]

Nice....Thanks for sharing

[@VerticDesigns]

It's all good

[@VampiricMisfit]

Is there a way to make a waveform transparent so it can be put into premiere on it's own?

[@pesomosca977]

Sure, export as RGB + Alpha and you'll get a transparent background

[@majdalfuqha2614]

Wow , loves this.

[@sleetglides9453]

Thank you so much for the start!!
In my case I want to do a lyrics video
With the audio waves showing

[@juliesz78]

This video is so useful and easy to do. Thanks a lot!!!

[@VerticDesigns]

Aye I'm glad to hear and no worries

[@theGhost556]

Thanks for the tutorial,man! Very helpful!

[@VerticDesigns]

Ayyee I'm glad it is

[@miuranga_dissanayake]

Thank you very much!

[@vinhngo1894]

Bro this was actually so helpful thanks man!

[@mildvibes7734]

Best Basic Tutorial

[@FutureShapeofficial]

great vid man!

[@live7k94]

thank you so helpful and so useful I subscribed thank you so much great uplouad

[@nilofarsa188]

What is the background song at the beginning of the video? It sounds so rhythmic and nice!

[@ShahrizanRajak]

thanks bro, quick and easy to follow. totally subscribing this channel😎👍

[@VerticDesigns]

You know it 👍 thanks for joining 😁

[@ShahrizanRajak]

@@VerticDesigns 2021 comeback again to this video..

[@VerticDesigns]

@@ShahrizanRajak I'm still doing audio spectrum tutorials if that's what you mean. Got some more planned

[@zbishop_1]

Great tutorial, pretty useful. Is there a way to change bars' falling velocity?

[@ak47-beats83]

VERY HELPFULL TUTORIAL KEEP DOING VIDEOS MATE!

[@vosbeats9096]

Great tutorial thank you! Now my videos will look so much better haha :) I'm uploading my next video in a hour with what I've learnt, thanks :D

[@laeeiq6467]

thank you so much bro. The video was really helpful.

[@bradleydavis2500]

Thank you so much

[@VerticDesigns]

It's all good

[@jonakajonnygadgetst9557]

this is one of the best tutorials i have seen so far, much thanks. i have a question, i noticed that when i render my effect it takes a lot of mb from the hard drive, is there any way to render an effect and save space or is that un-avoidable? your the first expert ive asked this so any help would be welcome. thanks again for the cool tutorial.

[@VerticDesigns]

If you're looking for better file compression I'd say to use another format or just lower the bitrate. Not really sure what else you could do because normally videos with effects should be under 1gb unless they're long videos or have a high bitrate hq audio

[@jonakajonnygadgetst9557]

okay i understand, i think i have to play around with different formats to see which ones have a lower compression ratio, will definitely look into lowering the bitrate, that might solve it right there, much thanks..

[@VerticDesigns]

Let me know if there are any other questions you have or if you found the right format. But yeah like I said the main ones that affect the size are video bitrate, frames per second (fps) and the audio bitrate

[@jonakajonnygadgetst9557]

will do, thanks for your help and instruction

[@tjaylightning5005]

This is so far the best tutorial on how to create audio spectrums on Adobe After Effects. I have one little baffling question though, why did you have to create a "New solid" for the audio spectrum or what are the solids for in general?

[@VerticDesigns]

A solid is like a coloured layer the audio spectrum effect needs a solid to be viewable

[@tjaylightning5005]

VerticDesigns thanks a lot for explaining. I tried Adobe After Effects for the first time last night following your exact directions in the video but each time I render it and try to play, the video freezes. I tried the same thing 6 times over and every time I try to view the final works, it freezes.

[@jawadbenaim]

i like your tutorial mana its was very helpful

[@farlesthan1479]

Pls do particle effect that beat it's velocity with song

[@legendbassboost2414]

Thanks, i wish you would make more tutorials! :D

[@yaralovers6935]

Hey dear 💓 , could I ask you a question , I wanna know why he Drags the photo to the right side ?

[@l-mental4135]

muy buen video, gracias por compartir tus conocimientos y tan bien, saludos!

[@danielmayda680]

you are amazing bro !!! :D

[@nanomiya790]

i tried this. but something weird happens. my song length is 1:42:16 but in the 1:30 above, the audio wave just gone/ missing until the end of the song. so in the last 12 seconds before the song ends, there is no audio spectrum. do you know why?

[@nocopyrightmusic6346]

This is so helpful. Thanks for sharing it :-)

[@x-3958]

Great Tutorial Subbed

[@VerticDesigns]

AYYE! thanks for the sub :P

[@lisulknassi6856]

awesome thanks!!!!

[@kemono4158]

Thanks, very helpful

[@Alezcollection]

For some reason, the text tool isn’t working for me. The option for it is dimmed, meaning it won’t let me use it.

[@VerticDesigns]

Try clicking on the timeline or the background layer

[@TerrencePieters]

Easy and awesome. thanks for the share

[@VerticDesigns]

Thats how we do it, simple and straight to the point

[@FuturisticPikacu]

best video ever

[@alanmuheddin6107]

I was done same, but the wouldn’t work, and how can we save the video at the end?

[@ChrisBessy]

there is an other program to make cool video animation on music ? thank you

[@spectral-by-nuabyss]

awesome video! thank you ever so much!

[@syndabolled1994]

Great video tutorial. But my after effects is something wrong .. No audio and I put the duration of song and the song is only 1 second and when I render it is 1 second video without sound ... How I can fix it ?

[@yazidvedian6241]

It works! Thanks a lot

[@SkyProStudio]

love it ... subscribed

[@darwinmelendres5469]

Vertic Design, thanks a lot for the tutorial 😇

[@VerticDesigns]

It's all good 😁

[@cdvpaz7454]

Good Tut. Thanks!

[@VerticDesigns]

Aye I appreciate the comment and no problem

[@beatrisborshukova5836]

awesome video!!

[@JydeeUK]

Belter thanks dude 🤟

[@WarriorsTVOfficial]

Help or lot thanks bro !

[@waynekirton8927]

Video starts at 4:44

[@InflameGamerYT]

great dude was VERRRRYYY... Useful FOR MY CHANNEL (THKS A LOOOOOOTTTTT...)

[@ZennitMusic]

damn i dont understand something:
if i let the program play my song it just doesnt work.
the first 2sec are normal but then i just hear wrong sounds.
can you help me there? what did i wrong?

[@jahanzebsalam5848]

let your song buffer itself a bit. It sometime happens when your RAM isn't utilizing itself fully.

[@furious-vengeance]

Nice One mate.

[@VerticDesigns]

Thanks

[@kapokrecords7794]

Gran video Bro!!!!

[@aviraltuteja]

Thanks mate!

[@dibyosusanto4581]

thank you so much, I like this one.

[@adenosinetp10]

could you also tell us your rendering template ? that video was very low size for that good quality

[@SefiroUltima]

Really useful, thank you. Stil,, im wondering why you limited the frequency spectrum from 36 to 130. was it a matter of taste? its not being triggered by the voice or cymbals, just the kick and the bass. which is cool tho, makes it simpler. just would like to know.

[@VerticDesigns]

I went with the flow, what looked appealing to my eyes and what looked visually pleasing with the song but the best part is these settings can easily be customized so people can make it their style

[@bayrain4158]

THANK YOU!

[@VerticDesigns]

No problem!

[@Kmetel]

perfect video !!!!

[@0nshore]

If I could like this video 100 times I would, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@lcxbnr6886]

Thank you

[@techmathindonesia2406]

thanks a lot dude

[@VerticDesigns]

No problem 👍

[@Zyroveroz]

Thank you bro. you are the best

[@TechDeskVlogs]

Great!!! 👍

[@mastaplanofc]

Thanks a million.

[@realynmelendres9330]

Super helpful

[@VerticDesigns]

Happy to hear and it's all good :D

[@TechDeskVlogs]

why it takes around one hour when we export.

[@TheNuclearHawk]

takes too much space! a 11 minute video took an hour and was 128 gb's!

[@gabrielmatining]

Why is it when I try to move the waveform it stays in place. The composition then moves like a mask?

[@CRIMSONLEMON]

You good at explaining! +sub +like