Bob, can you imagine being able to "tap" markers out to the beat, and then select one or a series of Fxs to be sprinkled to the markers? - Just blows me away!

. .and better, BETTER still have the envelopes controlled by a Joy stick that in turn is latched to the track automation function .. . .wooooaahhh . .. !

Guess I'll just have to make do with the new series of Dr Who instead - eh?

Grazie

Not sure it covers what you want but I remember there is an audio plugin which provides a similar feature. It creates keyframes on audio peaks and you can copy and paste the keyframes from an audio to a video track. I must have this plugin anywhere on my system - gimme a while ...

Marco

O.k. I found it. It's Blue Cat's Digital Peak Meter, available here:

http://software.bluecatonline.org

Marco

well what gets to me is that u can automate surround pans and it "records" the keys as u move the cursor..

why cant we have a "record keyframes" option in the filters that use pointers too, like cookie cutter and light rays etc.. ??
then have a "smoothness option like particle illusion which interpolates smoothness of ur motion to however u want it??

I mean i dont see why it cant.. and i been askin for this for about 3 yrs now.. lol

You've reached the same impasse as I did quite some time ago!
Worse still it means you cannot use automation and control surfaces to control video events either, apart from opacity that is.

I did pose the question as to why audio uses envelopes and video uses keyframes and never the twain shall meet and the answer seems to be, ah well, hm, history?

Grazie,
with the process being discussed here, you don't need to add markers, a few simple audio fxs on the audio track and you can write an envelope that tracks the beat, now isn't that neat?

Then you copy the envelope to a video track.....

Bob.