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Trigger animation with audio

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Trigger animation with audio

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- [Narrator] I think that other ways that you can speed up your animation, by using things like audio to control your animation. In this example here, I want this guy to be hammering. Hammering nails into the wall. So instead of doing it manually, what I've done is, I have an audio layer here, and you can see that the taps of the hammer are there on the audio layer. I'm just going to turn off my expressions for a second, so you can see it without the animation. (taps) So you can hear the tapping of the hammer. I've converted that to keyframes. To do that we go to Animation, Keyframe Assistant, Convert Audio To Keyframes. And if we have a look at those keyframes, you'll see the same peaks and troughs of the audio. Now I've done a couple of things. I eased the peaks, just to make them last for a little bit longer. You can always extend that a little bit further if you want to. So once you've got your keyframes you can come in here and just make slight adjustments to them. Okay, and…

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