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[Steve]

Beginning with build 1380 Anim8or supports sound. Use the Build->AddSound... menu command to add sound .WAV sounds to the scene. The time track shows a visualization of the sound to help synchronize speech morphs and movement.

Note: While you may use .mp3 and .wav files, only .wav files show the sound wave visualization in the track window!

More to come: Tracks for dialog and sound description, character speech morph targets, and more!

I'm working on some examples to post, so stay tuned!

Note: I updated the above link to point to the latest version on May 6.

[johnar]

Nearly Speechless, but not for much longer! !
 This is so unexpected, and such an awesome surprise. Can't wait to try it out.
 I new it was somewhere on your list, steve, but what a nicely kept secret..

[davdud101]

Steve!!! No lie - I'll admit I haven't used Anim8or for anything beyond CAD-type stuff for the past few years - but this might be the feature to encourage me to get back into animation! It's always been a bit on the tough side getting sound to sync up well (gets often to where you're rather syncing the sound TO the animation instead )

Very cool!

[captaindrewi]

HA ha ha hahaha bleep bang whistle!boom!
Dived right in..half hour later re reads Steve's words about no .avi ouput yet
 

[johnar]

Hi steve
 Have been playing with the add sound feature. Adding sound is working here, and can add one sound  after another with no problems. I understand that is a single sound track, so sounds can not be overlapped. But thats fine.
 I can add sound, and when i push play -awesome- the sound plays.
 Have found 2 problems.
 The sound file is showing above the timetrack, but is only showing a flat line, and not a representation of the sound. Could this be a soundcard/driver issue. I only have the built in microsoft High definition audio device. Haven't updated drivers, (not so easy here), so before updating drivers could there possibly be another reason why the .wav file is only showing as a flat line?

 The other problem i'm having is rendering the video with sound. Its only rendering 1 frame. Tried scanline, ART and opengl rendering. go to render 200 frames, uncompressed, and only 1 frame renders. Same with using video compression.

 Any ideas? what does your system use in regards to audio? might i need some updating or dedicated soundcard? Thanks.

half hour later re reads Steve's words about no .avi ouput yet

oops...missed that...

[FWL]

This is really cool, Steve! A super addition for character animation! Thanks a lot for the update!

[Steve]

johnar: Are you using a .wav file or an .mp3 file? I have only been able to read the waveform for .avi files but not .mp3. I probably should have only allowed .wav for the time being, or at least add a warning dialog.

Oops! Looks like I broke rendering when there's a sound track. I'll fix that!!!

[Steve]

Build 1378+ fixed the movie rendering bug.

[johnar]

Hi Steve

 Yes, i'm using .wav files and have done comparrisons with different bitrates as shown in attached image.
The Video is now rendering, thanks, but still no sound.
I know the sound isn't being rendered out with the .avi, because when i open the test rendering .avi into my video editor there is no sound file accompanying it.

 I've  attached a zip with a couple of my .wav files enclosed. If any of them work for you, then it must be something here at my end.

[Trevor]

Awsome.

I also show a flat line on .wav.

You should update the sticky too (its still 1363)

Trev

[Steve]

Looking into it .....

[Steve]

OK I found a couple of issues:

1) I didn't have any 16-bit examples so I couldn't test 16/sample files.
2) For some reason files with spaces in the name aren't opening when I try to read the underlying data.

I'll have both of these fixed shortly.

And thanks for the sample files

[Steve]

Both of these problems should be fixed with Build 1379

[johnar]

Nice one steve, Its looking good..wav file representation now showing in sound track,(what a beautifull sight)

 but, unfortunately, still not rendering out with .avi . No sign of any sound track being attached to .avi when opening in editing software either.

 I've tried a couple of things. Re naming sound and trying uncompressed and compressed using microsoft video codecs. Not really sure of what more testing i can do. (?)

  Trevor: Are you getting sound in your rendered .avi?

 Gotta say, just  seeing a soundtrack in Anim8or is pretty darn cool.

[dode1]

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