AUDACITY TUTORIAL 101

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AUDACITY TUTORIAL 101

Introduction

AUDACITY is a software used to edit audio files. It allows the user to mix audio in multiple tracks and export them into various audio formats. AUDACITY comes with a number of effects that help to enhance the recorded audio track. User can record directly to AUDACITY or import a recorded audio file into AUDACITY to start working with it.

Steps

1. Setting Up AUDACITY.
   Go to URL, http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable and download the installer file.
   
2. Locate the file that you have downloaded. It is in a form of PAF file format. Double-click the PAF file to run.
   2.1) Double-click
   
   2.2) Click Run.
   
   2.3) Click OK.
   
   2.4) Click Next.
   
   2.5) Specify your target installation folder, eg C:\Z\Apps\AudacityPortable.
   You can specify any target folder as long as you have access permission.
   Make sure you remember the path because you need to go to this path in order to run AUDACITY.
   2.6) Select “Run Audacity Portable” to start immediately after installation is done. Click Finish. 
   Proceed to Step 3.
   If the program ask your permission to install VST Effects, click OK.
   
3. 
   
   Running AUDACITY.
   During the first time running, the program displays Welcome Window. If you don’t like it, select “Dont show this again at start up”. Click OK.
   
4. Importing Audio file into AUDACITY.
   For this exercise, you need to download the MP3 file (a short Covey speech sample), https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86b-ALn-1MGUGUwQzVEYUkzQ2c/edit?usp=sharing
   
   4.1) Go to MENU/File/Import/Audio.
   
   4.2) Select the file and click Open. 
   
   4.3) The file is loaded to the track.
   
   There are two tracks because the file is a stereo audio file (top track for Left channel, bottom track for Right channel.

1. Playing Audio Track.
2. 
   5.1) Click on the Play button.
   You should be able to hear the sound.
   5.2) Click Stop to stop playing.
   
   5.3) Click Fast Forward to move to the end of the track.
   
   5.4) Your track cursor will go to the end of the track.
   
   5.5) Click Fast Rewind button.
   5.6) Your track cursor will go back to the beginning of the track.
   5.7) You can also choose any point along the track, eg click an area above.
   
   5.8) The track cursor moves to the clicked location.
   
3. 
   
4. Saving audio track as an MP3 file.
   To save the opened file as an MP3 file format, you require lame.dll which needs to be downloaded and installed separately.
   
   6.1) Download lame.dll from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86b-ALn-1MGbG5zWUxrZGVmNk0/edit?usp=sharing
   
   6.2) Save the file to C:/Z/Apps/AudacityPortable File/App/LAME/...
   
   6.3) Go to MENU/File/Export...
   
   6.4) Select the destination, file name and file type (MP3 Files), click Save.
   
   6.5) If the program ask you to enter meta data, just accept the dfault and click OK.
   
   6.6) If the program asks you the Lame location, click Browse and go to the location that you have set in Step 6.2.
   
   6.7) Select the file lame_enc.dll and click Open.
   
   6.8) Click OK.
   
   6.9) If you see this, it means that you are doing it correctly.
   
5. End here for now.

Anime Studio Pro 101 Basic Layers Frames and Keyframes

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Anime Studio Pro 101 Basic Layers Frames and Keyframes

STEPS

1) Start Anime Studio

1.1) The main application window.

1.2) Find the Layer Panel

2) Create a shape.

2.1) Select Yellow colour from the Swatches in Style Panel.

2.2) Click the shape icon.

2.3) Click the ellipse icon.

2.4) Draw an ellipse on the canvas.

3) Adding a Layer 2.

3.1) Select Red colour from the Swatches in Style Panel.

3.1) Go to the Layers Panel, click the New Layer button.

3.2) Choose Vector type.

3.3) A new Vector layer is added to the canvas.

Note that Layer 2 is below the Layer 1.

3.4)  Create a Triangle.

3.5) Using mouse, click the Triangle and move it to the Ellipse location.

Note that Triangle goes on top of Ellipse because of its layer position (as seen in the Step 3.2)

3.6) Reposition the objects as follows.

4) Adding Layer 3.

4.1) Select Blue colour from the Swatches in Style Panel.

4.2) Add Layer 3 based on Vector type.

4.3) Position objects as follows.

4.4) Try to move the Triangle in between the Ellipse and Rectangle and you will notice that the Triangle is above the Ellipse but below the Rectangle.

5) Frame

5.1) Frame 0 is the workspace.

5.2) Editing will be done at Frame 1 onwards.

5.3) Before editing, check the setting to ensure the right parameter value is set.

Go to MENU File/Project Settings…

5.4) The Dimensions Panel.

Note that Frame rate=24 means 24 frames persecond (fps)

Therefore, a total of 240 frames represent 10 seconds.

6) Keyframe - Moving the Ellipse to a new location at a new Keyframe.

6.1) Click the time point 24.

6.2) Click the new location for the Ellipse.

6.3) Notice that the timeline has been updated with animation symbol. The two circles located at the timeline no 24 is known as a keyframe.

6.4) When you move the cursor backward and forward, the object seems to move as well.

The movement effect of the ellipse is automatically generated by the computer based on the interpolation between the Keyframe 0 and Keyframe 24.

7) Keyframe - Resizing Object.

7.1) Click point 48 in the Timeline.

7.2) Move the Ellipse somewhere towards the left of the canvas

7.3) Click the Resize icon in the Tool panel and resize the Ellipse.

7.4) Notice that when you play the frames, the Ellipse is shown moving from left to right and then from right to left while getting smaller in size.

REFERENCES

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEeMHVp1Gxw