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- Developer: Trapcode
- Version: 1.1.3
- Platforms: Mac OSX 10.3.2 and later, Power Mac G5, Mac Intel; Windows XP SP1 or later (32-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit), Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or faster (or AMD equivalent) Windows XP and Vista 64-bit systems are not supported at this time. Updating from Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.5.2 or later will in most cases solve compatibility issues. Please update your operating system before contacting support.
- Host Applications: Adobe After Effects CS4, CS3, 7, 6.5
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Description
Sound Keys is a keyframe generator plug-in for Adobe After Effects 5.0 and higher. It allows visually selecting a range in the audio spectrum and convert the audio energy in the selected frequencies to a stream of keyframes. It is very handy for making extremely audio-driven animations.
Sound Keys fundamentally differs from the keyframe generators that comes with AE. They (wiggler, motion sketch etc) have their own palette, whereas Sound Keys is applied as a regular effect and keyframes are generated into its own output parameters and then linked with an expression (or copied into place). An advantage with this approach is that all settings for the plug-in are saved with the project.
Since Sound Keys was released After Effects 6.0 came out and included the handy new keyframe generator "Convert Audio to Keyframes". The main difference between the two lies in that Sound Keys can extract keyframes from frequency ranges rather than just the overall amplitude. This makes it possible to extract motion from only the kick drum, or only the voice for example. Another difference is that Sound Keys offers different falloff modes.
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Issues with Mac Fixed
- New Trapcode Betas solve issue with Mac OSX version of GridIron Nucleo
When using the Trapcode suite of plug-ins together with GridIron Nucleo on Mac OSX, some users have reported that the license magically dissapears in renders, so that the "demo-X" (the red cross that indicates the plug-in is not licensed) appears, most of the times on every other frame (dual CPU) or every fourth frame (Quad CPU). No such problems have been reported with the Windows versions.
Here are public betas of new versions of the Trapcode suite plugs that should fix the above mentioned problem (nothing else has changed): Trapcode / Nucleo Betas for Mac OSX
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