Okay so lets say you imported a video into after effects and obviously the video is going to have sound. But you want to make it so the video noise is silent. This instructions here are going to show you how to make imported video sound silent in after effects.

  1. import a video into after effects.
  2. make a new composition of that video.
  3. open audio and waveform as in the video instruction.
  4. in the waveform you can see a wave of how high the sound volume is.
  5. so drag the audio level to the left so it goes into the negative numbers. Keep dragging it to the left until you cant drag it to the left no more. So it will go to the silent.
  6. if you plan on adding the sound back again at a different part of the imported video.
  7. then add a keyframe of the same level of the audio anywhere.
  8. then next to that keyframe drag the audio level to 0, which 0 means normal sound as original sound from the video.

I hope this is understandable, but if you watch the video you most likely will understand.

Another Way to make Video Sound Silent

turn off volume on AE video import

Okay so lets say you imported a video but you want the entire video to be silent from beginning to ending. All you have to do is click on the volume symbol next to the video title and this will make entire video silent. This is useful if you don’t need the sound for anything. Normally this is useful if you want to add music to the video. If you turn it off then their will be zero sound and if you turn it on their will be sound, as simple as that.

If you plan on having sound and no sound on the same video then follow the video tutorial to make it silent that way. Some people want sound in half of the video and then lets say silent in the other half. So, in does conditions the video tutorial will help you.

This is very simple and most likely people who need this information are beginners on the After Effects Program, so if your new and your watching this tutorial then you will learn a lot. 🙂