After Effects Audio Limiter?

[Gotta Dance]

Hi everybody,

I've got a situation where I'm using AE's Wave Spectrum Effect, but I've go two problems...

1) My equalizer "at zero" are thick vertical lines, not dots,  (like a grill - | | | | | | etc ) so graphically my zero point is beneath/behind this and so I have to crank up the amplitude to see any motion above these lines.

2) In part because of 1), because I have the effect louder than normal I'm having to find ways to reduce to maximum stretch of the bars going up. So I need a limiter for this effect so it doesn't fly up to high.

I know that audio should be controlled in Premiere, but I'm layered up in After Effects with this and trying to get/measure audio levels in Premiere and bringing it back and forth to test in AE would be brutal.

Is there an audio graphics effect with a limitre or and audio limiting optino in After Effects at all?

[Mylenium]

I'm not clear why replacing an audio source file would be difficult. Even if you're knee deep into layers, all you need to do is substitute it in the project panel. Even if in your case the logic would be reversed and not ideal it would be workable. You can always add the actual audio back just by pre-comosing, muting the whole comp that is "muddied" by your tweaked audio and throw on a clean version again. Outside that there's really no point nor are there any fancy audio effects to do this natively in AE. That part of the API never attracted any third-party developers that may have come up with a fancy equalizer or such...

Mylenium 

[Gotta Dance]

The reason it would be difficult is because I won't know how too quiet/loud is until I get it back into AE and review it. Then to make changes I'd have to bring it back out again. 

It could be done, but not really something that I want to do. Yeah, I can't find anything audio-based online either. 

Thanks for replying.

[Mylenium]

Sounds more like you don't really know how make your file sound "loud" on the audio processing side of things or for that matter extract and boost specific frequency bands to make the visualization more pronounced, to be honest. Maybe work on that? AE is definitely not the answer to your problem.

Mylenium

[ShiveringCactus]

Are you saying that you've increased the maximum height in the effect's settings, but that means you're not seeing the lower volumes?  So you've tried increasing the volume of the music to compensate?

If so, it might be worth exploring the other settings like End Frequency and Audio Duration: