Topic: WavTRACKER.
Hey sorry for all the questions but do i need to download it to make make very good dialouged animations? 
or 
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Hey sorry for all the questions but do i need to download it to make make very good dialouged animations? or
You can time your animations on paper with simple math (A movement takes 3 seconds, you film at 15fps, 3x15= 45 seconds to make that movement), but this requires a bit of organization so you don't forget what you are timing. For speed and convenience I find WavTRACKER most helpful.
Last edited by Squash (June 22, 2009 (09:20am))
Is it an essential for brick'n?
Last edited by Capedkid (June 22, 2009 (01:24pm))
what is it?
No, it isn't essential.
Brenden, WavTRACKER is a free program which allows you to import an audio clip, select a portion, and based on the frame-rate it will tell you how long that section of the clip is. It's useful for doing dialog.
a loooong time ago there was a Microsoft excel spreadsheet available that was a brick film FPS calculator. PM me if you want it, I have it and its 31kb.
Eh, upon closer inspection of Aled's calculator I would say use the windows calculator before you use it; as far as I can see Aled's doesn't accept decimals. Without decimals you would have to make wild generalizations (relative to the fast pace of dialog, where in one second you could have gone through 2 or more words). Your best bet is to get as close to the exact length what you want to measure (if it's 2.43 seconds, use 2.43), multiply it by your framerate (2.43*15=36.45), and round down or up a frame (one 15th of a second is much less substantial than 1 whole). If it doesn't do decimals, steer clear.
When I try anything with decimals it gives me a "Cannot convert string to type Double" error.
EDIT: Scratch what I said before pertaining to Aled's FPS Calc, I just tried it on another PC and it works fine. Although I still don't quite see the necessity of downloading something you already have on your computer.
Last edited by Squash (June 24, 2009 (10:02am))
Bump!
I've started using WavTracker and it works very well for freeware!
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