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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
      Legend
      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

      mpronto
      mpronto
      Inspiring
      April 28, 2025

      So we can't scrub in After Effects is your point? I can't recall when it stopped but I change when to ballpark some audio for animation and got nothing, wtf? I thought I was loosing it. ((

      thepixelsmith
      Community Expert
      thepixelsmithCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 28, 2025

      You can scrub by holding the cmd (Mac) or Ctrl(Win) key on your keyboard and dragging the CTI (Current Time Indicator).

      But the keyboard shortcut doesn't preview with audio.

      You could set a custom preview option to preview audio at a lower frame rate like 10 or something but that isn't really scrubbing.

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