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Form is only as render-intensive as you make it, there are tons of ways to make it render in near realtime if you limit the numbers of particles or threads and are creative with the effect.

Not only that, but any effect in AE can be made sound-reactive.

1. import audio, select audio track

2. Animation -> keyframe assistant -> convert audio to keyframes

3. You now have an hour-long track of keyframes, take any effect, enable expressions, and pickwhip the effect parameters to the audio keyframe track

4. One place to start would be fractal noise parameters to animate, or size / position keyframes on shape layers, or shape layer repeater effects

5. look up the linear(x, x, x, x) expression - this will conform, say -360 to 360 degree rotational values into a 1-100 number scale that the audio keyframes work with

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Evan Fotis <evan.fotis@gmail.com> wrote:

thanks Bruce,
music is playback, not live.
Most AE plugs that I'm aware of, and especially Form I'm afraid is not an option as from my experience quite render heavy for this kind of length.
Any other suggestions?

On 26-Mar-14 16:59, Bruce Tovsky wrote:

is the music live or recorded. if live, find a max/jitter artist or a vj - doing it live is so easy and the quality can be very good. if it's recorded, there are many options in ae - trapcode particularly has some apps that do interesting visualizations - form comes to mind - but the render times are not what i'd call "fast", even on a tricked out machine.
b

On Mar 26, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Evan Fotis <evan.fotis@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all, there is this minimal budget project where some sort of video backround is needed to match the rhythm of music playing.
Any ideas on anything plug in, perhaps generative video, vj app etc software that could do this and render fast?
It does not need to be live, changing images on the air.
But at least something that could be produced with minimal render times as duration is about over 1hour.
thanks in advance

bruce tovsky

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