The matte grid won't do what he wants - I think - because he wants to
quantize the values so that each segment is either on or off, not
partially illuminated.  Sounds like something Dan Ebberts could cook up,
but way beyond my ability to execute with expressions.

Hopefully one of the master expressionists on the list can chime in.

Robert W. Walker
Los Angeles

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [AE] Posterize a ramp
From: Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 04, 2013 8:36 pm
To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>


If i understand you correctly, i think youre overthinking it. Just put a
grid as a matte above each bar graph blocking out the discrete units.  I
dont see why you couldnt do this with audio to keyframe data. Or trapcode
soundkeys

On Saturday, May 4, 2013, adam mercado wrote:

I need to create a VU style meter with 6 discrete levels.
I looked at the Audio Spectrum and Audio Waveform effects, but neither of
those come close.
I searched Goole and found a few examples that use the Audio Amplitude
assistant, but that just wiggles the matte which creates thin slivers of
meter instead of discrete chunks.
Is there a way to posterise to absolute values the scale/volume or
whatever property would be needed to control the visibility of the matted
layer?

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