Skip to main content
Known Participant
November 18, 2019
Question

Real Time Stretching ???

  • November 18, 2019
  • 4 replies
  • 1352 views

Hello,

 

I try to do "real" time stretching (that preserves audio pitch) and I thought AE could do that, but the defaut time stretching option changes the pitch

is it possible to do that in AE?

 

regards

 

 

 

This topic has been closed for replies.

4 replies

Roland Kahlenberg
Legend
November 19, 2019

I'm with Rick on this -in AE, you select an Audio Asset in either the Project Panel or the Timeline; then goto the Edit Menu and select Edit in Adobe Audition. Adobe Audition will startup, if it hasn't already, and it will load the uadio file. This tutorial should be sufficient your for needs - https://youtu.be/F5s_pyM3pYA

- hopefully! 🙂

Very Advanced After Effects Training | Adaptive & Responsive Toolkits | Intelligent Design Assets (IDAs) | MoGraph Design System DEV
Known Participant
November 19, 2019

thanks I'll have a look

Community Expert
November 19, 2019
  • AE and Audio = very basic
  • Premiere Pro and Audio = better but Dolby 5, surround, and a bunch of other critical mixing tools not available, but still sufficient for most productions that do not rely on cinema-quality mixing
  • Audition = Just about anything that you need to do full cinema quality mixing and sound effects as long as you have the audio equipment available in your room to hear everything you should be hearing when you do that kind of mix. You can't do a mix like that justice using the speakers on your laptop or even a good noise-canceling headset. 

 

All 3 apps can use Dynamic link to process audio and video. 

Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 18, 2019

Unfortunately, there's no "Maintain Audio Pitch" option on the After Effects side.

 

I copy and paste clips to Premiere Pro frequently to retime them to take advantage of how Premiere Pro automatically extends the Clip Boundary as well as the Maintain Audio Pitch that's in the Clip Speed / Duration dialog box; however, while the return copy and paste brings the speed change over, the Maintain Audio Pitch falls off.  I've gotten aroung this by doing an Audio Only export of an AIF or WAV on the PR side and then importing and syncing that back up with the retimed source footage in AE.

 

I've tried using Replace Footage with After Effcts Compostion for the return, but the audio remains with the pitch adjustment maintianed remains in the PR Timeline.

 

Despite the lack of being able to maintain audio pitch, one could make a very strong arugment that After Effects has "better than real time stretching" now that it inlcudes what used to be called "Kronos" by the Foundry under Effect > Time > Timewarp.  Also, there's Pixel Motion as well.  Each of thosre are very hard to beat.

 

 

 

-Warren

Known Participant
November 19, 2019

I'll check it out, thanks

Andrew Yoole
Inspiring
November 18, 2019

No, After Effects has no ability built in to preserve audio pitch when time stretching.

 

Premiere Pro does, or you can do even better quality pitch processing in Audition.

Known Participant
November 18, 2019

audition ? actualy I wanna do video too, is audition able to do that ?

Andrew Yoole
Inspiring
November 18, 2019

No.  Audition is an audio prcessing and mixing application.

 

Premiere allows you to time stretch video and audio simultaneously, whilst preserving the pitch.  But Audition can do a better job of the pitch transformation.