In this demo you’ll start out with a silent QuickTime movie and add a soundtrack to it. The soundtrack will contain a sound that synchronized to an event in the video.
The basic steps are as follows:
- Find the frame you wish to add a sound effect to
- Make a cue point in this frame so that you can find it later
- Add a new soundtrack to the movie
- Use the “Cue Points” window to go to the location that you’ll be adding the sound
- Import the sound effect
- Offset the sound so that it starts at the cue point
- Close the sound window
- Play the movie
Detailed Steps
Note: the files used in this demo are in a folder called "Demo Files"
1. Launch SE16. Close the initial sound window.
2. Open the movie file named “Collision.MooV” (You may have to change the setting of the popup menu in the open dialog to get the movie to appear.) This is a very short movie of two cars colliding.
3. Play the movie a couple of times for your audience so they get some idea of what the movie was like before adding sound.
4. Using the left and right cursor keys, locate the movie frame in which the cars just begin to collide.
5. Place a cue point in this frame by choosing “Make Cue Point…” from the Edit menu. A dialog will come up. The default name of this cue point will be a time code number. Change it to “crash.” Click the OK button.
6. In the movie window, click on the “New…” button. A sound window will open up.
7. Choose “Import…” from the File menu. Locate the sound file “Crash” and click the “Import” button. You should now see a sound in the soundtrack.
8. In the horizontal ruler, you should be able to see the cue point we added in step 5. Move the sound so that its left edge lines up with the cue point. You can do this by dragging the sound to the right while holding down the option key.
9. Close the sound window. You should get a dialog asking if you want to save your changes. Click the “Save” button.
10. Play the movie. There should be a crash sound when the cars collide.
