From the course: Animation Foundations: Fundamentals
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Animating to audio and music
From the course: Animation Foundations: Fundamentals
Animating to audio and music
There are many times when animation needs to be synced with a soundtrack. Animating to music is a very good example of this. When animating to music, you often need to sync up the animation to the beat of the music or to a specific phrase. We do this by reading the track. (MUSIC) Tracks are usually read by slowly listening for the audio while looking at the waveform. This is often known as scrubbing. Some animation applications support this, but you can also use video editors or dedicated audio programs. It's best to have an application that allows you to scrub interactively. When animating to music, many times, it's best to start by figuring out the tempo, that way you can animate to the beat. Now, here's a bit of audio. (MUSIC) By scrubbing the waveform, we can hear the beats (SOUND). If the beats are strong, we can even see them in the waveform (MUSIC). If our audio application supports frame rates or timecodes, we can see how many frames between beats. If not, we can still figure…
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