Random seems not so random

[Bang Boom Ben]

When I let a Video with Sound randomly jump between beats, it seems not really random. It just jumps in between a small range of the timeline.

[Joris]

The behavior is indeed not 100% random, but it's what's called a 'random walk'. The playhead will stumble through a section of beats, zigzagging forwards and backwards through the timeline. It's also referred to as a 'drunken walk', if that makes more sense to you

[cosmowe]

...so that means that you will rename the R Button to D(runk) button?

[Sadler]

Perhaps you are experience this:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9072

There's a video demonstrating the issue in that thread.

[Bang Boom Ben]

Yes and No. It drifts on the timeline forward (so it´s really a drunken walk - nice comparison by the way) and it also jumps only around an close area around the playhead. Is this really such a problem to program a real random number? That´s really interesting (I´m no a programmer so such things are fascinating). I only know the random number CODE in After Effects and it always returns a real random number between 0 and 1. Anyway I read you are on it - so Good Luck