Laurence Grayson from shortformvideo returns with a look at creating a really great looking retro looking MP3 Player LCD screen display in After Effects with scrolling text, time counter, and an audio reactive waveform. As always, Laurence’s tutorials require no special plugins for After Effects to follow along.
Check out the tutorial for Creating a Retro Digital Music Player Interface in After Effects here.

So here’s the tutorial that goes with this project file. Here, I’ll show you how you can easily create a slightly retro-looking MP3 Player LCD display, complete with scrolling text, time counter and audio-reactive digital waveform. As usual, no plug-ins are required, you can do all of this with the standard toolkit in After Effects CS3 or later. (NOTE – the project file is CS5.)