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From: jer@stbimbo.UUCP (John Ramspott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Animation Programs
Message-ID: <151@stbimbo.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 90 14:35:21 GMT
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Reply-To: jer@stbimbo.UUCP (John Ramspott)
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In article <4614@crash.cts.com> danb20@pro-graphics.cts.com (Dan Bachmann) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from acota@pro-realm.cts.com
>
>        I suggest DeluxePaint III by Electronic Arts
>and     MovieSetter by golddisk, for your type of animations.
>        Movie setter offers great sound sequencing to the Animation, while
>DPaint III does not allow any sound interaction.
>
>        Let me ask, does anyone know a good way to get sychronized sound in
>with a standard animation created with Sculpt4d, or DeluxePaint? I'd like to
>have a pair of animated lips look like they are saying some digitized sound in
>a presentation.

Yes, I suggest Deluxe Video III as probably the EASIEST way to do this. Other
programs like the Director can do this too, but can take longer to do. With
Deluxe Video, you setup an animation track and a sound track (and optionally
other types of tracks like picture display, SMUS music playing, etc). Each
track is essentially a time line. You decide when an animation starts playing,
and sound track lets you decide when to start a sound playing. These tracks
are in parallel, so it is easy to line things up so that they are synced.

I use DPaint III for most of my quick-and-dirty animation work, and Deluxe
Video III is very easy to use. I am not claiming that it is the most powerful
thing since the Silicon Graphics machine, but it does work well.

Other programs that I have done this with are Lights, Camera , Action (not
one of my favorites), the Director, and, of course, AmigaDOS (we do multi-
task around here).

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