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Add music to motion

Add music to motion

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Add music to motion

- [Narrator] A local animation really comes to life with a soundtrack. Let's take a brief look at adding audio to this composition. I'll double click in the project panel and I have my stock audio folder open and here, I've downloaded a few previews that I got from Adobe Stock. So right there in the creative cloud app. I'll just press my space bar to preview them. (upbeat music) Okay. That's number one. (soft upbeat music) And so I hope you're a visualizing the animation we've created with these. Here's number three. (upbeat music) Well, if you were here with me, I'd take a crowd vote but I get to be an autocrat and I'm going to choose the second one. So I click open and it's imported into my project. And then I'm simply going to add it to the timeline. I could drag it down, or I could just simply drag it over the icon here and it's added as the top layer. So let's see how it syncs up naturally with the animation…

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