Sounds & Effects
Add a Soundtrack and Lip-Synching to Your Animations!
Record your own sound clips inside Anime Studio and adjust the pitch from high to low to fit your animated characters or import existing audio files into your project. Anime Studio 8 will automatically insert them into your timeline, where you can adjust the timing and length to fit your scene. Using the Sequencer, freely move multiple sounds along the timeline to adjust syncing. Anime Studio supports WAV, AIFF, MP3 and M4A formats.
Built-in lip syncing in Anime Studio is a huge timesaver. Simply load a sound file, and from the layer options of the layer you wish to synch, select the sound file from a pull-down menu. Anime Studio 8 does the rest.
Lip Synching in Anime Studio Pro 8
Built on the AST Production sync library you can easily synchronize characters' lips and mouth movements through a simple and intuitive process that yields extremely accurate results.
Papagayo is still supported in Anime Studio Pro 8
Papagayo is free to download and use and is specifically designed to work with Anime Studio & Anime Studio Pro. Sync 'till your virtual lips are sore! Papagayo is available for Windows, & Mac OS X.
Papagayo allows you to use multiple dictionary files. Myles Strous, a Papagayo user and contributor, has provided an extended dictionary file available below.
Papagayo is licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). This means that you are free to download the source code to Papagayo and make modifications to the program itself.
Create Amazing Special Effects
Anime Studio Pro 8 allows you to add many special effects to your projects, or you can create your own.
- Customize colors and fills for your objects using the Style palette. Add line effects such as Shaded, Soft Edge, Halo and Gradients.
- Manipulate the camera around your scene to create action and drama in your projects.
- Script commands to call in pre-made particle effects like smoke or explosions.
- Apply a cartoon style effect to any image or video using the Toon Effect Filter.
- Remove unwanted background colors from your images using the Image Masking tool.
- Make your own Styles by saving your favorite sets of effects for use later.
- Draw with pattern brushes, create perspective shadows with Anime Studio's layer masking feature.
- Create glows and outlines with the shadow options or create other visuals.
- Use particle layers to create the flurry of flying objects, including water, smoke, swarms of insects and more.