BeatEdit for After Effects

Auto-detect beats in a music track, wiggle to the beat, write markers, repeat keyframes, stagger layers, and more!

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BeatEdit will change the way you animate to music in After Effects. It auto-detects beats in a music track and allows you to do anything you like with them: create beat markers, animate sliders, animate layers, repeat keyframes, and much more.

Features

  • Beat Detection: BeatEdit features a highly accurate Beat Detector developed by universities in Porto (Portugal) and Victoria (Canada). This beat tracker goes way beyond simple peak detection, combining several methods and a great deal of expert knowledge to get accurate results, even with songs where the beat is not obvious.
  • Markers: Visualize beats as markers in your composition. You can also easily copy, paste and move markers.
  • Beat Wiggle: Whether you want to animate sliders, 2D or 3D layers or time-remap your footage – the beat wiggle does it all. Endless possibilities, full control and lots of presets. It even supports beat patterns, so the animation behaves differently for each beat.
  • Repeat Keyframes: BeatEdit can of course repeat your keyframed animations in sync with the beat, but it also comes with a powerful continuous mode which offsets each repetition, so that it starts exactly where the previous one ends.
  • Stagger Layers & Keyframes: Want your text to appear step by step with the beat, or sync your keyframes up to the music? Our stagger features are your best friends!
  • Beat Selection: BeatEdit gives you full control over which beats your animations react to - you can choose to select only every fourth beat, select beats randomly, or subdivide the beats. BeatEdit can even react to other rhythmically relevant points of your music to create even more variation.

Mini-Tutorials

In-Depth Tutorials

Robust Beat Tracking Technology

BeatEdit relies on highly robust beat tracking technologies developed by music research groups around the globe. The beat tracker used (IBT) is developed by the Sound and Music Computing Group at the INESC University of Porto. BeatEdit also relies on the MARSYAS (Music Analysis, Retrieval and Synthesis for Audio Signals) framework developed under the direction of George Tzanetakis, Associate Professor at the University of Victoria.

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Version History

2.2.003 -

Apr 18, 2025

fixed installation issues

2.2.002 -

Nov 14, 2024

fixed issues with floating licenses (error -6 issue)

2.2.001 -

Feb 23, 2024

- fixed issues with copy/paste of markers with non-latin symbols in their marker comment or name

2.2.000 -

Nov 17, 2023

- added support for colored markers

- native support of Apple Silicon processors

- fixed installation issues

2.1.010 -

Jan 25, 2023

- bug fixes

2.1.009 -

Jul 7, 2022

- various bug & compatibility fixes

2.1.007 -

Oct 11, 2021

Fixed issue with "cannot convert" error message.

2.1.004 -

May 10, 2021

- added support for aac audio files

2.1.003 -

Apr 19, 2021

- new quantization feature for improved beat detection

- fixed copy/paste issues

2.0.006 -

Sep 24, 2020

fixed issues with CC2020 (CEP 10)

2.0.005 -

May 29, 2020

added support for time-limited licenses

2.0.003 -

Dec 9, 2019

fixed issues with Mac OS Catalina

2.0.000 -

May 28, 2019

initial release of BeatEdit for After Effects

Compatibility

After Effects

2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3