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George Nindi
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February 21, 2019
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Frame by frame audio scrubbing in After Effects?

  • February 21, 2019
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Is there a way to enable audio scrubbing when moving one frame at a time with the keyboard?

As opposed to holding Ctrl/Cmd while scrubbing with the mouse.

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      Mylenium
      Mylenium
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      February 21, 2019

      Nope. The "scrubbing" is triggered by some sort of internal delay threshold, so it isn't frame-exact to begin with. If you really need that, prepare your audio file suitably in Audition or Premiere and place markers where you need them. AE retains that stuff on import.

      Mylenium

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      Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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      February 21, 2019

      I rely on the waveform as much as the audio when editing action to audio. Depending on the action and the tempo (audio) the most effective edits often lead the audio by a few frames. This is much easier to see in a waveform than to hear. Cutting exactly on the beat is not always the best thing to do visually.

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