Animation/Adding Music Issues and problems
 

We are having some major problems putting our music into the animation on 3dsMax. We have the sound both as a WAV and an AVI file and it doesn't work either time. We followed the tutorial instructions perfectly and we can never get it to work, we either get error messages or no sound. a cookie to whoever helps us solve our problem


thanks
THE BEAST
team 241
the Pinkerton Astros

Re: Animation/Adding Music Issues and problems
 

Not sure what the tutorial says, but this has always worked for me:

1. Open the Curve Editor.
2. Scroll down to "Sound"
3. Expand that.
4. Right click, and select "Properties"
5. Click on "Choose Sound"

It should then put it in. I am not sure if this has changed on Max8, as I am using 7.

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thats what we did and it didnt work! anyclue why? its the correct file type and all we dont know why we cant get a single song to work they all get a "Can't open file or file has no audio streams" message everytime

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Somebody? Anybody? WE NEED HELP!!!

HELP! (Putting music in the animation)
 

We are having some major problems putting our music into the animation on 3dsMax. We have the sound both as a WAV and an AVI file and it doesn't work either time. We followed the tutorial instructions perfectly and we can never get it to work, we either get error messages or no sound. a cookie to whoever helps us solve our problem


thanks
THE BEAST
team 241
the Pinkerton Astros

Re: Animation/Adding Music Issues and problems
 

Why isn't anybody posting here?!

Re: Animation/Adding Music Issues and problems
 

Perhaps because it's been less than two hours since the first post, or perhaps it's because the problem hasn't been sufficiently detailed.

I don't know the first thing about 3dsMax, but I do have a question: how do you know your file is in the proper format?

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The thing about nobody posting was because we need help badly...


our file is in .wav or .avi format

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Doo you use any video editing progams like Adobe Premiere?

Re: HELP! (Putting music in the animation)
 

i would suggest using adobe premiere to add music, but if you are doing lipsincing or something like that, then use 3ds max. Also, try to use an .mp3 instead of a .wav or an .avi.

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I don't
Its expensive. This is what i did. Download Avid Free DV Here and install it. It's free and works great. (Takes some time to learn but...) If you want REALLY good free results, try and open source program called Jahshaka. You can get it here. I decided to forgoe using Jahshaka myself because it takes ALOT of time to figure out. I do know it will get you results though.
Good Luck! ;)

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if you are not afraid to lose a little quality, import the animation into windows movie maker. thenyou can use that to add sound. it has a really easy to use interface and is simple. only problem is that it will not export to quicktime, so you need a converter.

I really am not the video editing guy. i do MAX stuff, then give the video and sound to Dave to compile. he's got all the crazy fix-stuff programs.

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Using an outside editor is probably the easiest way to add audio to your animation. As Ed said, Adobe Premiere is an excellent product and I believe there are free trial versions floating around of it.

Chill out guys, you still have some time.

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*Screams in terror*
How dare you mention WMM2!
It's the plague that ol' Black Death wouldn't touch.
Put simply: It's not accurate, It won't take MPEG format, it doesn't have any audio editing capabilities...
Don't use it. it's Ok for some home videos, but for a 3D animation where sound acuracy is everything...Never.

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actually- thats isn't the problem Ur facing - its the format Ur audio file is in! i know u might say its in wav or something but 3ds Max really needs pcm!! now if u don't know what pcm is, its a format in wav files- to check if Ur file is pcm- right click on ur file and go to properties then summary, it should tell u your format for the wav files there is a couple i think.

now, i think there are more than one format that max accepts, i only know this from experience 3 days ago, i have converted my soundtrack for my animation more than 50 times with adobe audition to get it to work in my for animation per bit.

Google for more info- thats what i do!!!!!

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Yes bad captin! very bad! never mention WMM2!

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never had problems with it, and yes, i said that it does not support the right formats.

honestly, i never really got why everyone avoids windows stuff like the plague. i know it's not the best, but it work for the stuff most people do. IMO.

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so is there no way to do it with out getting outside softwear? because our school thinks any softwear we put on the computer will summon satan and destsroy everything and we dont want to have to go threw it IT guy again like we had to do to convince him that we HAD TO download the streamline client to put the paperwork and such online

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IT guy = b******

...I dislike baseless fears with a PASSION!!

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our school blocked our ablitly to check the property summary...

they block everything, cant even bring up task manger or use the search to find ur files on the computer

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umm u might want to check out my attachment- its a .wav audio file propertie but, inside that wav files, there is another format known as pcm. check out the attachment to understand what im saying.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/at...tid=3961&stc=1

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that would be nice but we cant bring up that menu... as i said in my last post

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hmm... y don't u use http://www.goldwave.com/release426.php - its an old version freely available as far as i know except their new versions. it works as audition and can do the conversion job for u easily if u don't want to learn it. - file save - and select the pcm format and ur done in sec.

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umm cant u get ur adminstrators to unlock it for u?? i know my schools is the same thing but when im running max, i tell my teacher to unlock it for me. its pretty hard working with max it self while using multiple files and stuff.

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It sounds like these are your options -

Deal with the school IT situation and get the software you need. I've dealt with it before and it's not fun but sometimes it is what you have to do. Stress the importance of this and the time restrictions as well.

Or

Try and do the audio portion on a home computer. I'd try and follow the advice of a few people here, sounds like you can use the pcm format.

I would try the second option. Surely someone has a PC on your team that can handle that. It's crunch time so do what you got to do to get it done.

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We Downloaded the Avid Free DV softwear and it runs great we just finished the video and it looks fine(well fine considering the 2 of us have never used 3Dsmax before) thanks everyone

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This should probably be another thread....but I can't get max to render with sound. I am using video post got my video sequenced and rendered nicley then I "added exteral event" for each of the sound tracks...imported them (they show up as windows icons with the names I gave them) ....and they are wave files. I added an external event and rendered but the rendering stops as soon as the wav file starts in the sequence. There is so little option in video post that it is quite annoying. I've used Premier in the past and this was no problem but now with the new compression requirements, I've been getting really blurry outputs but they had sound.
To avoid having to do all the post production stuff from scratch I used the completely edited scenes from premier and exported them to video post as a series of targa files. I then rendered them in max in the required format and they came out nice. But now sound is the issue. I guess I just can remember how to add sound tracks in video post and get them to render with the video. Today's pretty much it for us...if anyone can help? Really desperate