Storyboarding and the Story Reel - Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish - page 48

If you haven't already done so, switch the buttons window
to the Render Buttons context, and set the frame rate and
render size in pixels to match that of your fi nished anima-
tion (Figure 4.44). In the Sequencer panel of the Sound
Block context, enable the Sync and Scrub options (Figure
4.45). Sync forces Blender to maintain accurate time during
sequence playback, causing it to skip the display of frames if
things are taking too long to process. Scrub causes Blender to
play audio as you use your left mouse button to scrub along
the timeline, making it easier to synchronize your storyboards
with events in the rough soundtrack.

Figure 4.44 FPS and size adjusted

Figure 4.45 Sync and Scrub enabled

With the animation settings prepared and confi rmed, add your rough soundtrack. Press the space bar over the
VSE workspace and choose Audio (wav) . Select the audio fi le you created as a rough soundtrack (the WAV
fi le) and place it in the VSE beginning on frame 1, just like the image strip. With the audio in place, pressing
Alt-A (the standard Blender command to Play Animation) should cause the sound to begin to play while
the storyboard images fl ash past in the preview window.

The Edit panel back in the Scene Button's Sequence context will show the start and end frames of the audio
clip in the First and Last information fi elds. You will most likely have to use the mouse's scroll wheel (or just
press the Home key) to fi t the entire audio strip onto the screen at once. In Figure 4.46, you can see the small size
of the purple image strip (85 frames), com-
pared to the much larger green audio strip
(4103 frames). When you have the audio
strip positioned, make sure that it is selected
(right mouse button), and then enable the
Lock button in the Edit panel.

Also, using the information shown about the
sound strip in the display, set Blender's End
frame animation counter in the Render
Buttons to the last frame of the sound strip. Figure 4.46 Audio and image strips from The Beast