Creating a Video of Sound Waves

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Creating a Video of Sound Waves

I am making a video for a soul band but due to a lack of footage I want to create a video of pulsating sound waves in time to the audio. I have done a quick search of the forums but cant find anything that helps.

It's not going to be full screen just in a small box with a white border and the video is going to be compressed to stream on the bands website: www.otbsoul.com

Does anyone know of the best means of creating this??? I dont mind using a different program other than Final Cut to create an AVI of the sound waves then importing into Final Cut. I would even pay a little bit of money for it.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

G5 2Ghz, Mac OS X (10.4), Final Cut Pro

Posted on Jun 25, 2008 1:42 AM

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Answer 1

Nick Holmes

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Jun 25, 2008 4:56 AM in response to danrowson

You mean like something along the lines of iTunes Visualizer?

I made something like this years ago, I hooked up an audio signal to the modulator port of a GVG vision mixer and tweaked the wipe transition to get the right look. Got a whole music video out of that one!

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Andy Mees

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Jun 25, 2008 5:21 AM in response to danrowson

Noise Industries FxFactory is a freely available plugin framework for third party effects, download and install it and you can use any free or commercial plugins that use that framework

Core Melt's Veeyoo plugins use the FxFactory framework (and are free). They do kind of what you want ... maybe even more than you want.

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Jim Cookman

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Jun 25, 2008 7:19 AM in response to danrowson

If you want REALLY cool, find an engineer with an oscilloscope and run the audio through that. Shoot the scope's screen.

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