Working with Sounds in Animate

Name: Working with Sounds in Animate
Author: Jessica Henley

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In this lesson, I will show you how to import sounds. To import sounds, we need to organize the library and create a folder that will hold the sound clips. To do so, there's a folder button right next to the new symbol button. Click on the New Folder button. And here you can name it. I'm going to name this folder Sound Clips. Now, what I need to do is import the sound. To import the sound, you can go to the Voiceovers folder and drag in the sound clips. To do so, you just click and drag like this, and drag and drop it over to the Sound Clips folder. You can tell that the Sound Clips folder is selected because it's highlighted in orange. Another way to import sound is going to File, Import to the Library. However, when you use this way, you'll have to manually find all the sound clips that are within the list and then drag them into the folder. It might be best just to drag the clips manually from the folder. Now that we have the sound clips, we need to prepare our scene. So I'm going to go to this new symbol button, and I'm going to go ahead and call this new symbol All Panels. And this new symbol will hold all of the panels. So we're going to import the pictures and then we can edit the sound. So from here, what we wanna do is import all of the storyboard pictures. Again, clicking on New Folder, I'm going to name this All Panels, and it says that's already taken because of the symbol here. So what I can do is rename that. And I'll put All-Panels. All right, so here, I have All Panels and I need to drag and drop in all of the pictures. That way, the imported sound can be applied to those pictures. Navigate to the Storyboard folder, and make sure you have all of your panels. Wherever you have saved your panels, go to that particular folder. My panels happen to be saved in the Storyboard folder on my computer. So from here, I'm just going to select them all by clicking and dragging, or you can tap Ctrl + A to select all for a PC computer, or you can tap Command + A on a Mac computer. Then make sure you have the All Panels folder in your site of view. And then you just drag it over. You can tell that it's selected because it's highlighted in orange. And then there's all of our panels. We can tell that these are pictures because the dot extension says PNG. Yours may say .JPEG, or it may be a different type of picture file type, which is okay. Now again, you can go to File, Import to the Library, but if you do it this way, you will actually have to manually find the imported pictures and drag them one at a time into that folder. Next, what we wanna do is go ahead and place down the panels on the layers, and then we can adjust the imported sound. In the next lesson, I will show you how we can use sounds for animatics.

Intermediate Provider : Jessica Henley 3 Lessons · 14m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

In this module, students will take another look at the animation script in order to see which character voiceover will be used for their animation. The voice-over from the character students work with will be imported into Adobe Animate from the file destination. In addition, students will learn how to import music and sounds from the provided Assets panel in Adobe Animate.

What You'll Learn

Access sounds for importing into Adobe Animate
Import character voiceover from a file destination into Adobe Animate
Import music and sounds from the Assets panel in Adobe Animate
Apply sounds to the timeline
Browse the free sounds library
Use sound for animatics

Key Takeaways

The module has students revisit the animation script to determine which character voiceover will be used for their animation.
The voiceover from the character a student works with is imported into Adobe Animate from the file destination.
Students learn to import music and sounds from the Assets panel provided in Adobe Animate.
The course covers accessing sounds for importing, applying sounds to the timeline, and browsing a free sounds library.
Lessons include importing sound and using sound for animatics.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn to access sounds for importing, apply sounds to the timeline, and browse a free sounds library, including importing character voiceover and importing music and sounds from the Assets panel in Adobe Animate.

What lessons does this module include?

The module includes three lessons: Importing Sound, Using Sound for Animatics Part 1, and Using Sound for Animatics Part 2.

Which software does this course use?

The course works in Adobe Animate, importing character voiceover from a file destination and importing music and sounds from the Assets panel in Adobe Animate.

What skills does this course cover?

The course covers Adobe Animate, Sound Editing, Sound Effects, Sound Tools, Soundboards, and Storyboarding.

Where does the character voiceover come from?

Students revisit the animation script to see which character voiceover will be used, then import that voiceover into Adobe Animate from the file destination.