Meet Joel Hooton

Creative COW Web Writer, Contributing Editor

Joel Hooton
Detroit, Michigan USA

Occupation: Mechanical Engineer for General Motors in Advance vehicle Development since 2000Married to wife Heather

After effects history: As you can see my college education has NOTHING to do with motion graphic at all. I started using premiere and after effects about 3 years ago just to do light saber videos with my friends. After that I entered a contest to produce the opening of a movie theater (don’t smoke, keep quiet, eat food etc). My team won and ever since that I have just loved to gain more knowledge of this wonderful program.

Articles by Joel Hooton

Adobe After Effects

Synchronizing Video to Audio with Layer Markers and Expression Sets

A while back, Dan Ebberts made an article talking about synchronizing animation to audio using layer markers. It was really cool and easy to setup. Make a comp add the expression to an attribute and just click away on the * key on the num pad to sync video to audio. In this article, Joel Hooton wanted to see how many different useful sets of expressions he could develop that make use of this great feature. We'll also see how they are used together to make more complex outputs.

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