First of all, is there any way I can pay someone to help me by phone? This is like the most complicated thing I have ever tried to do. I watched five hours of my IClone 5 training video. I have IClone 7.1, so I watched more videos on Iclone 7. I worked for about a year with Iclone 4 and it was much more intuitive. For Iclone 7, you need to be a computer whiz or something. First of all, I don't like the dark windows. There's probably a way to change that, but it is depressing to look at to begin with. And there's so many of them that it is totally confusing. It took me hours to just get my bearings at all.
Anyway, I am doing all this so I can make great music videos with animation and live action. My first problem is that I imported a Wave file that had my original music on it. But as soon as I tried to produce animation it disappeared, so I undid it. I also wanted to edit the audio file to begin with, because it had some clicks at the beginning and I needed to remove them. So I got up the timeline, and highlighted the project section where the clicks were and tried to delete, but it would not do it. Do I have to render something before it becomes something I can edit? Can I bring up the audio and visual tracks like I can in Adobe Premiere Pro?
So, as I was saying, I tried to do some animation and the entire audio track disappeared. Come to think of it, it never appeared in the timeline to begin with under "Sound." Do I need to render it as a video before it becomes real? How do I make it appear on the timeline and stay so I can edit the audio as an integral part of the animation? God, this is the most frustrating thing. I've watched so many videos and I'm still completely clueless.
I know I got some content with my purchase, but it took me hours to see anything that I purchased in those confusing windows. But I don't think I have many of the things I need, and I'm not an artist, so I can't do it myself, because I don't have the first clue about creating the scenes I want from scratch. My first scene is going to be at a graduation ceremony, so I first looked on 3D Exchange for a graduation scene. Then I discovered I have to learn a whole other program, because when I got the scene in 3D warehouse and imported it, I got an error message about needing to save it as sketchfab 2015. Do I do that in the Warehouse? How do I do that? What the heck is sketchfab????????????? So I will now have to watch all those videos too, but I might still feel clueless.
Please help. Thanks.