Is there a way to easily add large number of repetitve sound effects?

Question

Hi, I've been searching about this for a long while but I find myself stuck.

I have an animation of a beating heart and a single sound effect sample of one heart beat. The heartbeat slows down and then speeds up at some point. I refuse to believe adding repetetive sound effects has to be done manually in this software.

Is there a quick way for me to add this sound effect to a track in specific, variable intervals? Is there a function for that? Or is there some sort of automation script I could find or make where I can just enter the list of timestamps and clip speed multipliers for the script to do it for me? Please help.

(This isn't the first time I encounter this challenge, last time I was supposed to animate a giant steam engine with variable speed and adding all the sound effects took so much time.)

Bruce Bullis · Accepted Answer

Doing so would be possible using PPro's ExtendScript API (and you'd need to provide some audio analysis logic). There may be third party tools that address this need.

mrmoonwlkr · Answer

Also so desperately looking for a solution to this task! Bless us with a little update magic, Adobe (hint hint)? @Bruce Bullis I just ran through a workflow doing this manually and I'd accept pretty much any solution to workaround doing that again. Similar situation to OP - one simple sound effect, needing variation to pacing to match the flow of the video. Even allowing "Automate to Sequence" to automate the sound to ALL selected clips in the timeline would be HUGE.

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