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How do I animate emission with an audio file?
For convenience later on, I'll add a Value node, which you can connect to the emission strength or any other input.
Set a key on the property, which you want to be "animated" by the sound wave.
In ...
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VSE: How to render a video with audio?
In blenders preferences under system you have a few options for the software used for sound, this may help playing sound from blender's VSE.
For the output video you need to check that you have ...
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No audio output in rendered video file
Open a Properties Pane.
Scroll down until you see the "Encoding" dropdown tab.
You'll see Audio Codecs. If "None" is selected, there will be no audio.
Here is an example.
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Can I make 3D spheres to deform/pulse in sync with audio?
I had so much fun re-creating this effect that I ended up doing it twice. You can see the final results (with sound) here.
Unfortunately a step-by-step guide to creating exactly what I made would be ...
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Error AL lib: UpdateDeviceParams: Failed to set 44100hz, got 48000hz instead. What can I do?
While this is a harmless error, this is how you can fix it:
Open user preferences with
Ctrl+Alt+U and go to the System tab
In the sound settings below, change the sample rate to 48000 kHz and
save ...
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Waveform not showing while checking audio scrubbing
Turning on the waveform display is a separate setting in the 'View' menu:
If you have a long MP3, you may have to wait for the previews to generate (after turning 'Waveforms On'):
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How to move an object with sound?
You can bake sounds to fcurves:
Insert a keyframe (I) on the transform channel you want to be controlled by the sound (e.g. Z scale).
In the Graph editor, press ...
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Get raw sound data in Blender using python
Say with a Plane object selected, you bake a sound file to its location keyframes.
...
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How to Draw Waveform Automatically
When you have one or multiple Sound strips you can check Draw Waveform in the Strips Sound Properties (on the right, open VSE's Properties Panel pressing the N key) per Strip.
When you want to set ...
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Workflow for a short animated film: what to do first, music or video?
By short animated film I assume it is story driven and that there might be dialog.
The process is this:
write the script (with dialogue)
create storyboard, mood, concept art
record dialogue with ...
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ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' and etc Errors happend in Ubuntu Server14.04
Use -noaudio option works, like this
./blender-2.74-linux-glibc211-x86_64/blender -b -noaudio "Blender/ball.blend" -x 1 -f 1 -o //
hope could help someone!
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No sound in VSE
I can think of a couple possibilities:
Your audio track is muted in the VSESelect the track hit n deselect the 'eye' button
Your sequence is no longer pointing to the audio file because you've moved ...
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Can I make 3D spheres to deform/pulse in sync with audio?
This is super easy & Fun:
in the 3D viewport Add >> Mesh >> Sphere.
With the Sphere selected hit I >> Scale.
Split your 3D view and in the next view goto the Graph Editor.
on the menu bar: Key >> ...
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Spatial Audio Render
Can use the mixdown operator to create an "audio render" of the scene.
Mixdown is next to the render animation button in the latest versions of Blender (There once was a mixdown button on the audio ...
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Voice over in Blender
To drive lips from an audio file -
For this exercise both lips are simply curve-paths bevelled with a small diameter oval and left as curves.
The animated gif pic below is the Graph Editor and where ...
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How many dB (Decibel) are at the extreme limit of the Waveform?
Decibel is a comparative unit, like percentage but logarithmic, so red lines say "You went over 100%". But 100% of what? It's 100% of the hardware and software capabilities.
In professional ...
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No sound in VSE
Ok I found the problem and the solution.
As the link I posted in the edited question suggested, the problem was some twisted setup, the last update should have messed something.
What I have done has ...
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How to accurately add sound effects on each rigid body collision?
I would write a python script to keep track of the object's velocity. When the velocity suddenly decreases (on collision) I would play the sound, setting its volume based on how big the deceleration ...
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No audio playback in VSE but rendered file has audio
To enable the sound in my Video Sequencing Editor, I had to change the system setting for audio device from OpenAL to SDL. Doing this seemed to jar loose the sound so that it would play. I was even ...
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Is There a Way to "Render" the sound itself in Blender?
There is active research happening in this field currently and Stanford is in the forefront of this research. They presented their work at SIGGRAPH, 2018. I hope soon it can be integrated to Blenderv2....
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Why can I not import an .mp3 file through Python scripting?
I just tested your file with one of my own .mp3s and found two problems:
The path contains backslashes. This is standard in Windows, but has special meaning in many programming languages. The ...
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Bake sound to F Curve giving square curves?
The issue was that in setting up the custom property 'Sound'. In the video, the tutor enters '0.0' into the Property Value. I didn't notice the decimal and entered '0', thus switching the property to '...
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How can I output audio at 48khz?
In the 'Scene' buttons, there is an Audio Panel. It has a Format: label, under which you can adjust the Channel count and Rate.
Then you can render Audio from the render panel (also known as Mixdown)....
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No sound in VSE
I have done this by:
Select Render Properties
Go Down Expand Enconding
On Audio Codec:
Choose dropdown from None to MP3
Now you can hear the sound, cheers!
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How to render from VSE, and not 3D scene?
Make sure, under your Render Properties in the Post Processing panel you have Sequencer checked.
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Error AL lib: UpdateDeviceParams: Failed to set 44100hz, got 48000hz instead. What can I do?
To fix this issue you just do like in pictures
In priorities sound and set to 44100 Hz then ok and run blender , that all
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GxAV Addon does not do anything more than adding static bars
The GxAV addon was last updated on GitHub three years ago.
I didn't test it but I think the addon is broken in the current blender version.
In this case you could try to use an old version of blender.
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Advance audio editing for blender
Blender has a Video Sequence Editor which allows very simple editing of an audio clip such as cutting and volume adjustment. Audio clips can then be placed in sync with a video clip to then be encoded ...
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How to add a new audio track to a video clip
Okay, so I'm posting this answer to my own question in case someone else has the same problem as I did. If you feel this isn't helpful, please feel free to vote to delete it.
The issue was that I ...
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