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Hi! I have a couple of questions. I am a student and I am making a hand-drawn animation (in TVPaint, of course) for a final class project. The output needs to be good quality (not great), and playable on a Mac or PC (preferably a Quicktime file).

Question #1: Can anyone recommend an AUDIO software program that will allow me to obtain and make simple edits with sound effects? I see Adobe is coming out with a "Production Creative Suite" in the next couple months. As a student I can get that at a discount, but I need something now! Any recommendations? Does Premiere Pro have audio editing capabilities?

Question #2: Do people working with TVPaint utilize TVPaint from start to finished product? Obviously, one would need some sort of software to create audio, right? And what about the finished product, are people putting it all together in TVPaint, or something like Premiere Pro, for example, with titles and such? Any recommendations or ideas would be great!!!

Thanks again!

Marc

Hi imihsas,
I think you have an audio editing software with the Nero suite. It allows you to make some simple edits. Then you can import your finalized audio track into your TVPaint project.

There is certainly an animator on the forum that can help you better than me.

for audio/video editing:-
on apple mac
if you have access to a apple mac you can use garageband which is free on all new mac's...it's pretty darn cool too.

same with video editing you can use imovie and output to a dvd or podcast etc

on windows
video editor, free:-
http://www.virtualdub.org/

for audio edits, free
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/


have fun!

imihsas wrote:... Can anyone recommend an AUDIO software program that will allow me to obtain and make simple edits with sound effects?

I second cresshead on Audacity,
it's a very popular freeware sound editor , and existing in multi-OS versions,
it would do the job perfectly for basic edits/effects.

in the high end (professionnal and expensive) class, you have :
Sony's Sound Forge and Steinberg's WaveLab, among others.

Final Cut and Soundtrack Pro for editing video and sound are good on Mac. Though they are expensive.

Yeah VirtualDub and Audacity are good ulternatives.