Just to make this an official request;
It would be nice to have a built-in option of referencing a chop/waveform/spectrogram/other cues or file markers in the animation comp (either as a channel or in the background).
Work arounds are possible with the BGTOP variable, but it could be better implemented than that.
I also tried a script that added keyframes to an animation comp’s channel based on a downsampled audio file but the performance hit due to the number of keyframes is not ideal. (even though it could be removed after use…)
(to anybody at derivative reading this; Greg is well aware of the request and some of the workaround that we tested; namely fileinCHOP into opviewerTOP cropped and sent to bgtop variable and Pete’s spectrograph solution)