In the Current Sound panel, type the number of times you want the sound to play in the Number of Loops field. In the Timeline or Exposure Sheet view, select the Sound element you want to loop.įrom the Sound Element panel, select the sound section you want to loop. To repeat a sound, you need to specify, in the Sound Element Editor the number of times that you want it to loop. The trimmed sound sample appears in both the Timeline and Xsheet Views at the start and end positions that you selected. Once you are sure that the sound is trimmed correctly, click OK. Use the Zoom slider at the bottom of the panel to zoom in on the waveform so you can trim it more accurately. In the Current Sound panel, click the Play button to play the trimmed sound and check that you have trimmed the sections correctly. Using the Current Sound panel, you can decide which part of the file you want to play by dragging the left and right boundaries of the selection area. To distinguish one sound section from another on the same sound layer, check the frame numbers that appear on the tabs beside the start and stop lines of each waveform section. Select a sound from the Sound Element panel. To trim the start and end of a sound file: 1. If you need to consider restrictions in file size, it is better to completely edit the sound files in a third party sound editor before bringing them into Studio. This means that the entire sound file is included on export. The complete sound file is still kept in the project. The Sound Element Editor does not change the original sound file it only plays a section of it, ignoring the rest. For example, if there extraneous noise at the start of the sound, you can use the Sound Element Editor to edit out the noise. To play only a section of a sound file, use the Sound Element Editor to select the part you want to use. The Exposure Sheet and Timeline views display the sound clip at the start frame you selected. In the Current Sound panel, click the Play button if you want to hear only the selected clip. To hear how all of the clips fit together in the element, click Play in the Sound Element panel. To change the end frame, drag the yellow marker at the end of the waveform to the frame position where you want it to stop playing. You can only move the clip to a section that does not already contain a clip you cannot overlap two clips in the same element. In the Sound Element panel, drag the selected clip to the frame number where you want it to start playing. In the Current Sound panel, click the Play button (only the selected sound plays). Select a sound sample from the Sound Element panel. In the Timeline or Exposure Sheet view, select the Sound element you want to edit. To change the start frame or the end frame of a sound: 1.
To make sure the sound ends at a specific frame, you must set an end frame. To synchronize the sound with specific images in your scene, you must set a start frame for your sound. Right-click in the Timeline Sound layer or on the Exposure Sheet view sound column and select Edit Sound. In the Sound toolbar or Properties panel, click the Edit Sound button.Ĭlick the Timeline View menu and select Edit Sound.įrom the top menu, select Element > Edit Sound. In the Timeline or Exposure Sheet view, select the sound element you want to edit and do one of the following: Sound Scrubbing in the Sound Element Editor Ĭhanging the Start or End Frame of a Sound.You can do the following in the Sound Element Editor: Lip-sync Preview - You can preview the automated detection and manually insert different mouth positions to correspond with the sound sample-see Lip-sync. This window remains empty until you click inside the Sound Element window. This is also where you can edit its properties. If any edits are made to the sound sample, they can be heard here.Ĭurrent Sound - The Current Sound window displays the original sound file in its entirety. It may be shorter than the original sound sample due to length of the scene.
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Sound Element - The waveform in the top Sound Element window is the actual sample that will be heard when the final movie is rendered. The Sound Element Editor consists of three main panels. The Sound Element Editor is where you edit sounds that were created outside of Studio and imported into your scene. Now that you have successfully imported your sound file into Studio, it is time to familiarize yourself with the sound editing interface.