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Adding sound to animations

Adding sound to animations - InDesign Tutorial

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Adding sound to animations

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- Animations are fun to watch. But they can be even more compelling when sound is added. Let's look, I mean, look and listen, to a simple example with a sound effect added. (bees buzzing) Buzzing bees. Sound really brings it to life, doesn't it? Let me show you the ins and outs of adding a sound file. I'm gonna turn to the second page of this file. My bees are still animated. They're on a custom motion path. And they're set to Play on Page Load. If we look at the timing panel, they're all linked, and will play at the same time. Now let's add our sound file. I'm gonna use the Place command, just like I would for an image. And we'll place the sound file initially on the Paste board. In order for the sound file to actually play, it has to be touching the page somewhere. So I'm gonna move it over just a little bit. I don't really want it to show. I do want it to play. Now, we want it to play on page load, so I'm gonna open the Media panel. And there I have a setting to Play on Page Load…

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