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I have an animation scene that I"m lip syncing.
Can I import multiple individual soundtracks and control where each start?
I have 2 charactors talking to each other but when I import a soundtrack, I have one file that imports and always seems to import starting at the beginning instead of when I want them to start talking.
Forgive me but I'm a noob.

You can only have 1 soundtrack per file.

The way to work with a dialogue scene is like this:
1. Prepare a soundtrack with only speaker 1.
2. Prepare another soundtrack with only speaker 2.
3. Prepare the soundtrack with both speakers, this will be the final track. These 3 soundtracks must be of equal length, and they all start at frame #1.
4. Put soundtrack 1 into Papagayo and create a .dat file 1.
5. Put soundtrack 2 into Papagayo and create a .dat file 2.
6. Tell AS to use .dat file 1 for the mouth switch layer of character 1.
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6a. Import soundtrack 1 into AS and do the lipsync of character 1.
7. Tell AS to use .dat file 2 for the mouth switch layer of character 2.
- or:
7a. Import soundtrack 2 into AS and do the lipsync of character 2.
8. Import the final soundtrack into AS. Both characters speak fluently even when they overlap.

Answers in users manual 5.1, 5.2 and in the Papagayo manual.

Dale

Or you can skip some steps and just use the audio with BOTH dialog tracks in Papagayo. Just set up two different "voices" in Papagayo with one sound audio file. Your going to need that single combined sound file anyway. It might be easier to have them both in one file to do the lip sync with Papagayo.

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A soundtrack in AS always starts at the beginning (the starting frame set in the project settings). There is a script called "Pad sound" that adds silence to the beginning of a wav file. OR you could add the silence with an audio application.

-vern