Sound

In Vectorian Giotto you can easily make animations with audio effects or accompanying music.

Supported sound file formats

Vectorian Giotto supports importing of WAW and MP3 file formats. You can further manipulate these sounds and arrange them by your preference in export. For animation exporting quality of the incorporated sounds.

Incorporating sound in animation

In this version of Vectorian Giotto you can only add sounds that will play in the background of your animation. To do this open an animation sequence, left-click on an existent frame2 on appropriate layer you wish to apply your sound, thenopen Insert menu, then left-click Sound. The browser window will popup in the previously used location. Then find the appropriate sound file, select it and click Open. You can now see that the selected layer has in its frames oscilloscopic line of a sound file. This means that the sound has been applied to the animation. You can also see that the name of selected sound file has appeared in your Library. For hearing the final result you must see the animation in exported form it cannot be done using play preview option.
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What you should know

Length of animation vs. length of sound file

If the sound you incorporate is longer than animation itself, then in export, after one pass of animation, the audio file will continue to play until its end. If the animation loops is set to loop then the sounds will overlap. Therefore, you should make sure that you have synchronized the length of audio file and animation.

Sounds and layers

For incorporating sound in animation it would be best if you would use separate layers for sound. This will enable you to manipulate the animation layers without interference, independently of the sound itself.

Sound export settings

After incorporating sound file in animation you can further manipulate the sound output by tweaking the preferences in Sound export settings. Open Edit menu, then left-click Sound export settings; settings window will popup.

Sound export settings

After incorporating sound file in animation you can further manipulate the sound output bytweaking the preferences in Sound export settings. Open Edit menu, then left-click Sound export settings; settings window will popup.

Compression

Here you can choose what kind of compression Giotto should apply for incorporated sound in export. There are two types of compression: MP3 and Raw. Selecting the MP3 will compress yoursound in MP3 format (if not already; if yes than you can further tweak other parameters; see below) to have your export file smaller in size, but to the price of some sound quality. Selecting the Raw will leave incorporated file as it is with an additional tweaking available.
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Preprocessing

Here you can check Convert to mono check box if you want to force incorporated file to play in mono channel. Leave this unchecked if you want to leave it as it is.

Quality

Here you can choose among three degrees of overall quality of incorporated sound file. Options are Low, Medium and High. Lower the quality, smaller export file and vice versa. This option is only available if you chose MP3 compression.

Bit rate

Bit rate represents the amount of information, or detail, which is stored per unit of time of a recording. You can choose the appropriate bit rate for incorporated sound. Predefined numerical values are: 8, 16, 20, 24, 32, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128 and 160. You can lower the real bit rate to reduce your exported file size, but to the price of some sound quality. Lower the bit rate, lower the quality. This option is only available if you chose MP3 compression.

Sample rate

Sample rate is the frequency at which bits of data are recorded in digitizing a sound. You can choose between several values: 5.512, 11.025, 22.050 and 44.100 Hz. If you convert the sound that is encoded at a given rate to a higher or a lower rate, some noise could be introduced. See Sample rate legend for value reference.

Bit rate legend

32 kbit/s – MW (AM) quality
96 kbit/s – FM quality
128 – 160 kbit/s – Decent/Good quality

Sample rate legend

8,000 Hz – telephone quality
11,025 Hz and 22,050 Hz – used for lower-quality PCM and MPEG audio
44,100 Hz – audio CD quality

Removing sound from animation

To remove the sound from the animation, simply find/open your Library, your unwanted sound file should be there (see picture). Select sound file you want to remove and press delete on your keyboard or delete button in Library.
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