Adding Sound to your Adobe Animate Animation

Sound breakdown was often done on separate sheets called bar sheets made by the editor, and given to the animator who would transpose them to his dope sheet. An exposure sheet (also referred to as camera instruction sheet, dope sheet or X-sheet) is a traditional animation tool that allows an animator to organize their thinking and give instructions to the camera operator on how the animation is to be shot. It consists of five sections, and is a bit longer and a bit narrower. Every eighth line down is marked thicker than the rest and shows half a foot of film. One second of animation would take three of these sections.

Creative Commons is a system that allows you to legally use “some rights reserved” music, movies, images, and other content — all for free. CC offers free copyright licenses that anyone can use to mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. For instance, a musician might use a Creative Commons license to allow people to legally share her songs online, make copies for friends, or even use them in videos or make remixes. 

First watch your cartoon and notice places that will need a sound. Write down all of the sounds that you think you will need.

Animators often organize longer animations using exposure sheets or dope sheets. Exposure sheets are not only used by large animation studios, however. They are also extensively used by independent animators as a personal aid in the planning, creation and timing of their work as a means to chart up and keep track of the progression of events.

Look through and listen to the Flash Sound library, also check out the sound library in the animation folder.

First organize your sound needs, make a list of your sounds and where you need them.

To Add a Sound-

1. First add a new layer and dedicated it to sound, or two layers if you want to over lap sounds.
2. Import your sound to the library if it is from the folder
3. Create a key frame where you want your sound to begin
4. Drag your sound into the stage.
5. You can edit  fades to your sound in the "Property" menu (make sure you have highlighted your sound).

To Record a Sound-

1. In Audacity, connect a microphone
2. Check recording levels so that they do not go above the green line into the red, but should be close.
3. Hit the RECORD button.
4. Then the STOP when you have finished recording.
5. You can copy and paste, overlap, fade sounds, adjust levels and add effects in Audacity.
6. When you are finished, then you FILE, "EXPORT" your sound as a wave file.