Timing audio with footage

[SpikeyTaco 10]

Hey guys,

 

I've been having trouble timing music and pre-recorded speech to my animation, I can never get the facial rig to time perfectly or just simple head bobbing when wearing helmets. All I'm currently doing is attempting to play the audio while watching the animation back which so far has proven useless. What I'm asking is what techniques do you guys use when trying to time pre-recorded audio with your animation? e.g: Trying to play the audio at the same time while watching footage back, Saying the speech while animating etc.

 

I'll be glad for any help, Please leave a response as soon as possible. Thanks,

-SpikeyTaco

Edited September 23, 2014 by SpikeyTaco

[Hax4Ever 670]

Latest version of Windows Movie Maker Is Like A MINIMUM if you want EXACT audio

[SpikeyTaco 10]

Latest version of Windows Movie Maker Is Like A MINIMUM if you want EXACT audio

You've misunderstood my point, I have editing software and the audio prepared. It's the animation stage I am having problems with. While animating I can never time the animation to the speech or music correctly. What I was asking was during animating what techniques do you use when timing your animation to the audio.

[SpikeyTaco 10]

*bump* Currently animating, Still can't get anything close to what I'd like. Please post some suggestions or just some helpful tips.

[Lord Cat 647]

use Sony Vegas and probably a lot of zoooming in the program to place the sounds right

[SpikeyTaco 10]

It's not during the editing of the audio, I have adobe after effects for that. I am creating an animation based on a video and while animating I can never time the animation correctly.

[RedcapCreations 2.1k]

It's not during the editing of the audio, I have adobe after effects for that. I am creating an animation based on a video and while animating I can never time the animation correctly.

what I do when timing animation is set the tempo to 100 so that if I wanted something to happen at exactly 5.23 seconds I just go to frame 523 and so on

[SpikeyTaco 10]

what I do when timing animation is set the tempo to 100 so that if I wanted something to happen at exactly 5.23 seconds I just go to frame 523 and so on

Now that's an Idea! I'll get to it right away, I may have to edit the beginning so It'll be in time but it'll save more time than trial and error. Thanks for your help!

 

But if anyone else has any ideas please post them too.

 

 

EDIT:

 

I will have to re-create what I've done so far but it'll probably save more time, Still annoying though...

Edited September 23, 2014 by SpikeyTaco

[SpikeyTaco 10]

what I do when timing animation is set the tempo to 100 so that if I wanted something to happen at exactly 5.23 seconds I just go to frame 523 and so on

 

I've been practising with this so far and it's working great, Takes a while and still includes a lot of trial and error but it ends with better results. Thanks, I suggest you post this in the tips and hints section as this is the first time I've heard of it and it works great!

 

Thanks again, 

-SpikeyTaco