Answers.Body: <p>Assuming that you're using AE...</p>
  
  <p>The old fashioned way: </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Select your layer, hit 0 (on the numeric keypad) to do a ram preview</li>
  <li>Wait till the preview is loaded into the ram</li>
  <li>When the preview begins to playback, hit * (on the numeric key pad) at each beat</li>
  <li>As soon as you stop playback, you'll have a marker at each beat</li>
  <li>now you're ready to begin key framing according  to the beats</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Red Giant's - Trapcode Sound Keys is probably the best plugin out there for automating it.
  <a href="http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/trapcode-sound-keys/" rel="nofollow">http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/trapcode-sound-keys/</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>What's one way to get a strobe flash effect in video (you know, virtually, in software) that's synchronized to the beat of a music track?</p>
  
  <p>Or for that matter, how do I synchronize ANY effect with music?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: there are many tools and plugins which will identify beats and output a trigger - some are configurable to only search for beats in particular frequency ranges, others auto-tune themselves.
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Comments.Text: @DrMayhem Could you maybe name a few? Wouldn't that be sufficient as an answer?
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Comments.Text: Once I hunt down named ones -yes, but I can't do a useful search at work ;-P
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Title: Music-sync'd Strobe effect in video
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ThreadText: # Music-sync'd Strobe effect in video
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2013-01-25)
  
  What's one way to get a strobe flash effect in video (you know, virtually, in software) that's synchronized to the beat of a music track?
  
  Or for that matter, how do I synchronize ANY effect with music?
  
  **Tags:** video
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: there are many tools and plugins which will identify beats and output a trigger - some are configurable to only search for beats in particular frequency ranges, others auto-tune themselves.  
  > **username_2**: @username_1 Could you maybe name a few? Wouldn't that be sufficient as an answer?  
  > **username_1**: Once I hunt down named ones -yes, but I can't do a useful search at work ;-P  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2013-01-26. Score: 2
  
  Assuming that you're using AE...
  
  The old fashioned way:
  
  * Select your layer, hit 0 (on the numeric keypad) to do a ram preview
  * Wait till the preview is loaded into the ram
  * When the preview begins to playback, hit \* (on the numeric key pad) at each beat
  * As soon as you stop playback, you'll have a marker at each beat
  * now you're ready to begin key framing according to the beats
  
  Red Giant's - Trapcode Sound Keys is probably the best plugin out there for automating it.
  <http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/trapcode-sound-keys/>
  
  
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