Creating a flashing background

Hi,
I'm trying to work on a music video and I'd like the background to 'throb' in time with the music.
Basically, I just need it to alternate between a white and a black background in time with a few bars of the music. The 'Dip To White' effect is just what I need except, of course, that it only 'dips' -once-. I need something that will repeat.
My current noob solution was to create a transparent clip and populate it with 'Dip To White' over and over and over and over. It works, but it's tedious in the extreme.
Ideas? Is this a job for AE? If so, can someone give me a hint where to go -there-? (Me heap big scared of AE!)
THANKS!
---JC

Hunt,
Several people, on different fora, have looked for plug-ins, or processing programs, that will basically "read" the music, and then adjust things automatically to do similar to what you want, up to moving Lighting Effects. To date, I have never heard of such a progarm, or plug-in. To my knowledge, it's by hand with Keyframes.
After Effects has a bulit in effect that does "sound level to keyframes". The keyframes can be used several ways, like "linked" to any effect and make that "go with the sound. Way too much to go into now, but it is possible to "read" the music (level always, but could be frequency "sensitive" with sound-preparing and duplicate layers) with no additional plugin in After Effects.
There are also two plugins from Trapcode (sold by Red Giant Software, www.redgiantsoftware.com) that will interact with sound.
The very best one that can both read levels and generate keyframes from selectable frequency ranges has the name " Sound Keys". Quite an helpful tool it is!
The other called "Form" can also interact with sound, but will do that "to its own benefit" (meaning interact with its own effects).
Yes, it takes some time to get into After Effects and plugins, but that time can very well be the "life saver" for you one of these days.
Two silly examples:
(I can't show what I have made for my clients, so... anyway, sometimes I'm doing some silly stuff in order to test out things)
Made with After Effects 6.5, here was the new animators for text and the sound to keyframes to be tested:
http://www.norumprod.com/video/intro.mov
Made with After Effect CS3, turned out to be a silly story "muted firefly", well, mostly to test some stuff in Trapcode Frorm (the aftershake):
http://www.norumprod.com/video/firefly.wmv
Dag
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