Importing a video and animation over it.

[MultiversityYT]

Hi, I'm pretty new to the Adobe Animate program so I'm a bit confused when it comes to certain things.

I've recently been trying to import a prerecorded video into the time line of my project (File, Import, Import to stage, selecting to FLV video file, selecting "embed FLV in SWF and play in timeline", Next, Not changing any presets, Next, Finish.)

After I've imported and the video has loaded in I clicked play to make sure it has worked, that's when I encountered my first problem: When I clicked play the video would play through the timeline but the audio was missing, I checked the video and when played in a separate program the audio worked just fine. Sadly the lack of audio caused a few problems when it came to animating the characters in and lipsyncing then was jest a process of guessing.

To resolve this I decided to create a separate audio file that I could play in the timeline, I've done this before without any problems and the audio worked fine. Except it did not line up with the video file that's when I realized the second problem: when the video played it played much slower and took up A LOT more frames than the audio file did. I decided to test it as a separate video and had none of these problems. Again this caused trouble when trying to animate over it.

Is there something I can change when importing the video to fix these problems, mainly the second one, If that is resolved I can line the audio up with the video.

Thanks!

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

If your overall goal is to have your animation on top of an existing video, there's a better way for you to work.

Take your best quality video into Premiere. Also take it into Adobe Media Encoder, and make an MP4 that is H.264 video and AAC audio. Import the MP4 into Animate, you will see there is an option for importing H.264 into the timeline. Once it's there you can scrub the timeline and you'll get good video and audio, plenty good enough to do lip sync.

The quality of the MP4 isn't important, so you can do a relatively low data rate to save drive space.

Once you have done your animation you would then do a File/Export/Export Video... In the export dialog you will see an option to Ignore stage color, generate alpha. Do check that. Also there is an option to send the video to Adobe Media Encoder. Don't check that.

You will get a large MOV file of your animation. It won't include the H.264 video. Import the MOV as another track in Premiere, on top of the high quality video. You can now export the combined tracks as your final video.

[MultiversityYT]

Thank you so much this appears to be working!