Animating made Easy

We have just released a small feature in the studio to help synchronizing sounds with scenes more easily. Now, when you click on a sound on your timeline you have an option to start listening to that sound from a specific location along the timeline. What can it be used for? Let's use an example of how this can be used...

Imagine you found a soundtrack on the web featuring a cool dialogue and you want to turn that into an animation. You upload the sound to GoAnimate, add it to the timeline and then start putting the scenes together. The problem is, you have to go to preview the movie all the time to make sure your scenes actually fit the sound track you have added.


Not anymore! Let's say the timing of your animation is right for scene 1 and 2. But for scene 3 you want to make sure the scene lasts long enough for the character to finish his sentence. Now you can click on the sound at the point that corresponds to the end of scene 2 and start playing the sound from there.

As the sound plays a green marker will show. Wait until the character finished speaking and then press "stop sound". You now have a marker on your timeline showing how long it takes for the character to finish his sentence and thus how long your scene should be. You can adjust its duration to match the sound.

And you can repeat this for the next scenes without having to preview your animation multiple times. Handy, no? You have ideas on how to build upon this new feature? You have discovered other ways to use it to help you animate? Let us know in the comments below or on the forum!

Note (we're working on solving these two bugs):
Known bug 1: There is some delay playing the sound for long sounds because of streaming.
Known bug 2: This feature works well if you keep the sound in your timeline at its original duration. If you extend the sound to make it loop, the looping will not play when you select the "play sound" option.