Adding Sound Effects and Music to an Animation

[Matt Hallock]

There's no need to defend your use of Blender here. Simplicity isn't defined as how easy it is to put a file into something, but programs like Premier and Acid give you easy editability. That's why he's saying it's simple.

[djcapelis]

My point was not to defend my choice of program, that is uneccessary. I was simply making the point that calling something the most simple possible may be an oversight when you take into account that different people function in different ways and I strongly doubt that he has tried every sound editor.

For me, a commandline based sound editor may be very simple and perfect for my usage. (Yes, including editablity.) In reality for editability it's actually audacity, but that's another story. The point is, different people think different things are simple. One should be extremely careful when making rash statements like so:

premier is the most simple thing you can do

It may be true that premire is the most simple thing that bainbane has come accross for his own uses, this does not mean it is the most simple thing you can do. That's all I was trying to say. If you want to see someone who takes this topic much too seriously then you might find a reading of Matt's collection of Windows rants interesting: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/ Don't be turned off by the titles, they're actually fairly well thought out.

[Matt Hallock]

He asked for opinions, brainbane gave his.

[bainbane]

Sorry about that. I did not mean that what I use is the best thing period. I have found soundforge to be the best option in my experience, obviously everyone's tastes and techniques are different. I did not mean to say that other methods and programs are in any way inferior. The reason I said premier was the most simple is on my team, we export our animation into premier to render it to the file type we want and add sound there. Assuming you are already doing that, premier is the most simple thing because you are already using the program. However, there are many other methods of getting the same quality result that are just as good, and I in no way ment to degrade their reputations. Nor do I now. There.

My experience is sort of limited in the field of sound production. I have been trying to teach myself the rudements and stuff for about a year now. I'm really sorry if I offended anyone.

[djcapelis]

I'm just getting cranky about the wording again, I'll retreat back to my corner now, just wanted to clarify. We can return to topic too if it isn't already throughly beaten to death by now.