CTA3 voice-over editing and problems with sound disappearing after inserting a break!


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By VocalPics - 4 Years Ago
I am creating an animated sequence with a character working at a desk and I want to use a voice-over to describe what she is doing. I have 2 problems...

1) How do you add a general voice-over track rather than a lipsync audio track for a specific character in CTA3? The only way I can think of doing it where I can see the audio waveform for editing, is to add another character off stage and apply the narration track to them. Is this the best way?
2) Whether I add the Wave file narration track to a character, import it to Sound FX1 or import it to the Music backing track, when I break the audio track 2 things happen, first if it is applied to a character, I lose all the waveform zig-zag lines from the audio track... and then for all ways I import the voice-over, the audio does not play at all, either before or after the break???? Surely this can't be right. Am I missing an important step here?

This is driving me nuts! Please can someone help.
By VocalPics - 4 Years Ago
I now seem to have answered part 2 myself. If the file is a wav file, the audio track can be added, but as soon as you add a break to the audio track it will no longer work! I then decided to convert the audio track to MP3 and the wave form was still working after adding the break, and the sound could still be heard too :)
But am I right about part 1 of my question?
By jlittle - 4 Years Ago
VocalPics (12/30/2021)
1) How do you add a general voice-over track rather than a lipsync audio track for a specific character in CTA3? The only way I can think of doing it where I can see the audio waveform for editing, is to add another character off stage and apply the narration track to them. Is this the best way?

That is certainly one way to do it or you could use a NLE video editor to overlay your narration audio on to the clip.

Not sure why your waveform is disappearing. I don't remember having that issue. I'll have to dig out my CTA3 and see what I get.

Jeff
By hobbyuser3d - 4 Years Ago
that should be done in the video editor imho..at some point a bunch of audio is going to limit performance
unnecessarily