Flick sound?
WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO ADD SOUND TO ANIMATOR PRO FLICS?
This is such a common question here and I really haven't seen terribly good
answers. There seem to be a number of multimedia products on the market which
claim to be capable of doing this.
My quest and ideal criteria:
1. Affordable (around $100 – $150)
2. Attach sound files to flicks in a "frame-triggered" manner for optimum
synchronization.
3. Allow easy editing.
4. Playback from Hard-drive or RAM.
5. Playback both low-resolution and high-resolution animations.
6. Playback is full screen size.
Possible candidates:
MMPLAY
Pros: Cheap/Free with a Soundblaster card. Allows rudimentary synching.
Cons: Really tough to do if you generate flicks of any complexity.
Disney Animation Studio:
Pros: Cheap. Satisfies criterea 1,2,3,5,6.
Cons: Only playback from RAM, limiting animation length. Proprietary file
formats for both sound and animation create a difficult hurtle.
PC Animate Plus:
Pros: Seems to satisfy criterea 1,2,5,6.
Cons: I don't have it. Presidio software, its creator, seems to have gone out
of business. Pacific Software has taken over its marketing.
Question: Has anyone tried this software for the above task?
Q/Media 1.2
Pros: Seems to satisfy all of the Criteria.
Cons: None that I can see, but I don't own this. Anyone else know anything
about this?