Here we go again trying to take it all at once,how can i add sound to my animation in carrara,or do i have to do the sound in Premiere or something? I never saw anything about sound in any carrara help files nor tutorials. Please,a little help here

Graphikdon, You guessed right. Sound is a post production thing that will require Quicktime Pro or another product like Adobe Premier. Mark

I highly recommend Sonic Forge. The $50 version. It's a very good sound editor with avi and sound combining ability. Wayyyy cheaper than Permire! But not nearly as powerful, but for adding music, sound effects and the price, it's great!

You can add sound to video in any number of programs -- Premiere, After Effects, Video Wave, Sonic Foundry's Acid, etc. If you're really wanting to do detailed sound work, Premiere will allow for many layers of sound (very important for adding dialogue, sound effects, music, ambience, etc), and you can hear the sound as you play the movie in the project window (as opposed to having to render the movie out to hear the sound synched with the picture). Though After Effects handles sound clips, it doesn't do it in real time, so while you're animating a laser or comping a ship into a scene, you're still left to imagining the sound or making whooshing sounds as the ship flies by. (Even the "big boys" [and girls] do this kind of thing -- making zapping noises for phasers with their mouths before the sound department gets the clip.) By the way -- vhigh -- where do you get Sonic Forge? I've never heard of it, unless you mean Sound Forge by Sonic Foundry?

Sonic, Sound, one of those. It's by Sonic Foundry. I got my copy with my Sound Blaster, but it can be bought I think at software outlets. There are two versions, a $50 and $300 version for pros. I think Acid is around $200 or $300. I'm sure there are all kinds of products that will add sound to an animation. It all depends on what you need vs what you will spend. For adding sounds and music, I like SOUND FORGE.

Iam using Studio 7 special edition (Came with my computer) it does not let you do much post production other than titles and transition effcts, but it gives great controle over sceen placement, and sound.

Gotcha.... Yeah, Acid Pro is about 300 dollars, but Acid Music (which does allow for synchronization to AVI's) is only about $50. Another nice thing about the Acid family is that it allows you to construct very cool music for use however you like. You can check it out at --www.acidplanet.com or www.sonicfoundry.com -- either one will get you to their pages -- as well as the pages for Sound Forge. Both are worth looking at. I have Sound Forge, too; it's really powerful for editing sounds, and it's kind of limited for linking them to video. It's only designed for running one sound at a time, so if you're mixing sounds, you have to get them at exactly the right place the first time, or it's stuck. Using Premiere's audio tracks or Acid allows you to have several independent audio tracks running simultaneously, and if you put the gunshot sound down at the wrong time, you just move it a couple frames (or beats) forward or backward. The two versions are Sound Forge and Sound Forge XP. XP is the limited edition, but is really pretty powerful, even if it's limited. OK, I'll stop prattling on and on. - Dex

Hi Grafikdon, I have Sound Forge XP from Sonic Foundry and am very pleased with it. As Azchip mentioned above, the biggest drawback is that you are limited to a single audio track. On the plus side it is very easy to use and has an extensive set of features for recording and creating sound effects. Good Luck Jim Z. a.k.a. Julian Boolean

As an audio head, I have to say that Sound Forge and Acid Pro are almost all the audio software you'll ever need for most audio purposes. You can work with video, record music, midi, whatever you want. Acid is an amazing program, what used to take me days on samplers and sequencers, I can now do it in Acid in minutes, and it's perfect evertime. If money is an issue, then by all ,means get the cheap versions of Sound Forge and Acid, they still do everything you need them to do, but without some feaqtures. And you can pick up Acid music Cd's for about $35 at most music stores. And of course Premiere is a great tool for adding sound to Animation or Video, but it's not cheap. Good luck and welcome to another endless world of tech, audio can get very deep, but the basics are very easy to get startes and rolling aling.