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Repeat same sound file in sequence every five minutes

  • March 12, 2024
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Hi, i have a sound file that i want to repeat in a sequence every five minutes. Is there any way to do this automatically? Sequence has 4 hour so I don't want to do it manually.

 

I thought I could solve this somehow via a function "Automate to Sequence", but it works only with markers as I have found out. So is there any way to automatically insert a marker every five minutes?

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    Correct answer Ali Jaber

    If you couldn't do it using Automation Blocks, do the following: create a transparent video of duration 5 mins, align your audio with it, select both and copy, go to the end and paste several times until you reach 4 hours. The whole operation would take a minute or 2.

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    Mathias Moehl
    Mathias Moehl
    Adobe Expert
    March 12, 2024

    In this thread we discussed an automation with my (paid) extension Automation Blocks, which fills an entire sequence with music randomly. Instead of using a single audio file, it picks music files randomly from a folder to create more variation.

    If you give it a folder, which just contains the single audio file you want to use, it should fill the entire sequence with repeating this file. There is just one little adjustment you need to do in the block code:

    In order to avoid using songs multiple times, the tool removes each song from the list after it has been picked. Since you want to use the same song mulltiple times you need to replace the "get and remove" by just "get" as shown here in the picture:

     

    If you prefer to use your method with markers, you can use Automation Blocks tools to create beat markers for that.

    Just use the tool "Beat Marker - Create from BPM" shown at about 1:00 in the video below. Just set the BPM to 0.2 such that you create 0.2 beat markers per minute, i.e. 1 beat markers per 5 minutes.

     

    Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects
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    Grafik OKAYAuthor
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    March 13, 2024

    Thanks for the reply, I'll try it.

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    March 13, 2024

    If you couldn't do it using Automation Blocks, do the following: create a transparent video of duration 5 mins, align your audio with it, select both and copy, go to the end and paste several times until you reach 4 hours. The whole operation would take a minute or 2.


    Great idea! Thank you.

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