Frame by frame audio scrubbing in After Effects?

[George Nindi]

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.

[Mylenium]

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

[Rick Gerard]

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.

[mpronto]

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]

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.