Viz Artist User Guide
Version 3.14 | Published October 30, 2020 ©
Working with Audio (Clips) Items
This section contains information on the following procedures:
To Add an Audio Clip to a Scene (Context Menu)
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Select the target Container.
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Go to Container plug-ins > Global and find the Audio plug-in.
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Right click the plug-in and select Add Audio Clip. The Audio plug-in is added to the selected Container, and the Container will show that an animation was created.
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Click on the Stage Button.
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Highlight the Audio Clip in the Stage tree.
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Click on the Add key Frame icon (1).
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In the Key Frame panel add an Audio Clip. There are two ways to add an Audio Clip:
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Click DB Clip (1).
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Click on Server/Stage in the Main Menu.
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Select and drag an Audio Clip from the Server Tree panel to the Clip drop box (2).
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Click File (1).
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In the Clip line (3), click the icon to select an Audio clip to use.
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To Add an Audio Clip to a Scene
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Add the Audio plug-in (Container plug-ins > Global) to a Container (see Built Ins).
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In the Main Menu, click on Stage.
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Drag the Container to the Stage Tree Area.
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In the Stage Tree right-click the Container Actor (1)
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Click Audio > Clip (2) (the Container will show that an animation was created).
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Click on the Audio Clip Channel (3) in the Stage Editor, to open the Key Frame panel (if not open).
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In the Key Frame panel add an Audio Clip. There are two ways to add an Audio Clip:
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Click DB Clip (4).
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Click on Server/Stage in the Main Menu.
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Select and drag an Audio Clip from the Server Tree panel to the Clip drop box (5).
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Click File (4).
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In the Clip line (6), click the icon to select an Audio clip to use.
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To Import an Audio Clip
For information about how to import an audio clip (or an archive) from a hard disk or a network share to the database see Import and Archive.
To Export an Audio clip
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Open the Select Export Directory panel:
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Click on an Audio clip or Audio clips and select Export... from the Server Menu, or
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Right-click the Audio clip to be exported. In the menu that opens, select Export...
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In the Select Export Directory panel, select the folder where the Audio clips should be exported to.
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Click the Ok button. The audio clip will be exported to the selected folder, with its original name.