Questions tagged [audio]
Audio can take the form of sound strips or speakers in Blender both intended for adding audio to animation renders. Use this tag for questions about either form of audio in Blender.
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Error AL lib: UpdateDeviceParams: Failed to set 44100hz, got 48000hz instead. What can I do?
I have Win 10 and when I open Blender I have the error:
AL lib: UpdateDeviceParams: Failed to set 44100hz, got 48000hz instead
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What's the range of values on a sound-baked f-curve?
I'm doing a lot of sound baking at the moment, but it's kind of hard to work with since I don't know what kind of values to expect out of the f-curve.
Common sense would say that it would range from ...
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How to make baked sound f-curve trigger a layer's visibility?
I want to animate a picture of a puppet with two images, one with a closed mouth and one with an open mouth. I want to trigger the open mouth when an audio track goes above a certain volume.
This ...
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How to move an object with sound?
I'm making an intro with music, and I have objects that need to move with the music. It's not on the beat, slightly random, so I can't use regular intervals.
Is there a way to do this? I'm not sure if ...
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No audio output in rendered video file
I am trying to render a video (that is not a .dvd file) with audio using Blender. So far, I haven't had any success; all of my rendered clips have had the audio missing from the playback. I've tried a ...
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Scene playback with wrong/unwanted Sequencer audio
I have a 30 second Scene, that I put at 3 minutes into my VSE - together with some additional "scene music".
When I play this in the VSE, it works fine - both audio and video.
But when I go to an ...
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Combine F-Curve Modifiers with baked Sound
I have a Particle System on a grid with an X Velocity of 200 and a Tangent of 60. The Tangent has a keyframe with a sound baked ...
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Is there any way I can make a curve and/or a mesh from a wavefile?
So I want to make a mesh surface based on a wave file. I have been trying to convert sound to curves so I could extrude it to a mesh plane, but I am relatively new to Blender so I am not sure how to ...
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Smoothing a baked f-curve
I have an f-curve baked from an audio file, but finding it too jittery for my usage:
It there a way to smooth the baked curve? I've looked through the modifiers, expecting to find a filter, but there ...
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Can I make 3D spheres to deform/pulse in sync with audio?
How can I make a sphere-like object pulsate with the beat of a song? Is this possible to do in Blender, or do I need to get Adobe After Effects?
Here is an example of what I mean:
https://www.youtube....
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Rendering Sound In Video Sequencer
How do you render sound with your video in the video sequencer? I already placed a sound strip with the video strip but how do you render the sound with the video?
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Voice over in Blender
When my character speaks, I use shape keys to move the mouth, just up and down.
If I wanted to add a voice, do I need to record this separately and then insert as audio?
I'm asking if Blender has a ...
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Animating multiple columns to sound
I'm trying to make (or at least understand how to) something like this image sort of like a giants causeway and have it move up and down on a per column basis to sound. I know the idea of getting an ...
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Import video for editing with multiple audio strips [duplicate]
I'm recording with OBS.
In OBS, I have two options for audio recording, Desktop Audio and Mic Audio.
Each of these are mixed together and saved in the same MP4 with the video which is recorded.
When ...
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How to randomize audio
I am making a third person shooter and I have three different lazer sounds. I want to figure out how to make it so every time I click it plays a different lazer noise.
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Using Blender as a video editor can I only add an audio track without recoding a video track?
The task is to add an additional audio track to a video file (mkv).
But I do not want to change a video track in any way while rendering.
Can it be done in Blender?
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No sound in VSE
I've been working with the VSE for a while and everything was fine. But all of the sudden, when I play the preview the sound doesn't play. I think I must've disabled it somewhere, but I can't manage ...
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How do I animate emission with an audio file?
In cycles,
I want an audio file of speech to cause an emission surface to change the amount of emission strength to match the volume from the voice actor's audio file.
No sound = 0 strength
Loudest ...
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VSE: How to render a video with audio? [closed]
I want to play a music strip with a video in the video editor but the video has no music when I play it. I've rendered it but it still doesn't have sound. How can I render and play the video with ...
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Spatial Audio Render
How can I export B Format ambisonic audio in a render. Blender uses OpenAL, which does allow for First Order Ambisonic (4 mono channels, WXYZ) rendering. My goal is to create a stereoscopic, 360 ...
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Get raw sound data in Blender using python
I would like to use Blender to construct a mesh based on a sound file. I've seen the bake sound to graph function, and I tried to look in the source code how it works internally. This function is ...
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How to Draw Waveform Automatically
I'm doing some video editing in Blender, and every time I drop a clip in to edit, I always find myself selecting the audio and then telling Blender to draw the waveform using Adjust → Sound → Display ...
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ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' and etc Errors happend in Ubuntu Server14.04
I am using Amazon EC2 VPC, but when I start the Blender I got some errors:
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How to play a sound after script finishes?
Is there a way to play a sound after a script finishes ? For scripts taking between 30min and many hours (like the delaunay triangulation one from doomlysz), it's good to not have to check every 10 ...
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No audio playback in VSE but rendered file has audio
I can not get audio to play out of my speakers whilst using Blender 2.77a in the Video Sequence Editor. However when I rendered out a file (mp4) it contains the audio and can be played back on VLC. ...
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Extract audio to file from movie clip - with Blender?
In this excellent answer I learned how to extract a series of individual frames from a movie clip node.
This solution suits me well - there is a python script, and a few nodes, and it runs ...
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Can I render ambisonic b-Format audio?
Im looking for a way to render spatialized sound to 1st order ambisonic b-format. I assumed the 4ch option in scene audio settings was the key. But that just seems to render a quad speaker setup?
The ...
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Why can I not import an .mp3 file through Python scripting?
I'm following this tutorial and I'm about 29 minutes in. I'm using the .mp3 mentioned in the tutorial. Here's my latest .blend...
My script will create a single cube and switch the window context to ...
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VSE channel's volume
Helo,
can't figure out how to change the volume of multiple strips or one separate channel.
i have a video with multiple audio channels, one for background music, one for audio effects, and one for ...
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Audio doesn't play?
I'm new to blender and I just downloaded it. I can't seem to figure out what is wrong with the audio. I downloaded a few templates that came with audio but the audio doesn't run. The audio is not ...
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Best lossless video output format for later conversions for web
I'm creating an animation (with sound) in blender that's gonna be an HTML5 video. As browsers are quite picky, I'll probably need to embed the video into the web page in multiple different formats for ...
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Why isn't audio rendering?
Using the VSE, I have included a strip of audio, the "scene" that I animated, and other video footage. I have been able to hear the audio in playback, however after rendering I cannot hear any audio.
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Output vs Format vs Codec: what is the right combination?
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My problem started with a partial lack of sound in my rendered file. The WAV audio strips were missing from the output, while the ...
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No sound from WAV strip when encoding in MP3 (but ok from AAC strip)
Breaking down a bigger question: Output vs Format vs Codec: what is the right combination?
In the same project, I have a WAV sound-only strip originating from a ...
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How to add a minimum value to f-curves
I want to make a plane change the scale to an audio signal. Now when I try using the bake sound to f-curve-function it obviously starts with the scale at the value 0. Is there a way to give it a ...
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VSE Audio and Video Sync is off by 2 Frames Every Time
I'm using Blender 2.77. When I import footage into the VSE with the correct frame rate (23.98fps) every single audio strip is 2 frames longer than the corresponding video clip. I think the problem ...
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BGE How to change a music loop in the middle of a game?
I'm trying to create my first maze game. I have a "looping" music triggered by an Always sensor and I would like to change this music for another one once the player goes through a door. How can I do ...
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Geometry Nodes: How can I use baked sound F-curve data as a math function?
I want to use baked sound F-curve instead of sin and cos in expression for Trefoil knot:
\begin{aligned}x&=\sin t+2\sin 2t\\y&=\cos t-2\cos 2t\\z&=-\sin 3t\end{aligned}
Is it possible to ...
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No sound from sequencer in certain scene
I have a blend with two scenes, and the same audio strip is in both sequence editors. One scene has sound and the other one doesn’t, even though both strips are unmuted and have volume at 1. I vaguely ...
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How to export a .blend file to .MP4? [duplicate]
I have a very slow school computer and the school year is wrapping up soon. I'm using the video editing part of blender, putting in my own music and videotaping for an English project. I rendered it ...
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Sound (and occasionally video) disappears in VSE
newbie here.
I was editing together some clips in the VSE. All was apparently well, but coming back it this evening, I find that only two strips are audible and only a few visible. I can't think what ...
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How do I export audio in a video that is purposefully loud and distorted? (VSE)
I am editing a video in Blender's Video Sequence Editor (VSE) and I have a lot of audio that is loud, distorted, and clipping. This is intentional.
However, when I render my final video, all the ...
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double instance of sound when using VSE-scene strip in another scenes VSE
This is really strange - but perhaps it's just a setting somewhere.
I'm using Blender 2.78c
I've created a scene with video+sound (let's call it sourcescene)
I'm using this scene as a scene-strip ...
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Creating a storyboard with posing
Background: I've worked with Blender a lot in the past, but all I really did was create models. I never had to use it to animate or render anything. I basically never touched the cameras and lights, ...
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Will audio render in sync, like when previewing in textured or solid mode?
I am trying to lip sync a character, which requires timing. In the cycles render engine in textured mode, things are slower but I animated the character that way, so my sound is in sync. But if I go ...
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sound_bake in command line script
I'm making an audio visualizer which I want to render from the command line. Unfortunately the bpy.ops.graph.sound_bake() function seems only to work from the GUI.
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Automatic sound effect on bounce
Using physics simulation, I have created a ball bounce that looks something like this:
How can I automatically add a sound effect on each bounce?
The sound is from a provided sound file (example: <...
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Sound works in Blender, but no sound in the final render
I set the video to understand Xvid, and I have a codec, but no matter what I try I can't seem to get the sound to work when it's finish rendering. It works before I render but once I render, the sound ...
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Grease Pencil to Video Sequencer
I imported sound in video editor, cut it as needed and did animatics in sync to the sound using 2D animation tab. But when I render the same my output is a blank frame.
Possibly because I am not able ...
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Blender VSE Audio out-of-sync when animation (video) is rendered
Ok, so I found out that Blender has this really cool video-editing interface and I was beginning to love it. Until, I created this awesome project composition and when I exported the animation as a ...
