source data question

chumamania · Post by **chumamania** » Sun May 20, 2007 7:12 pm

Whats up, ok so i created this scene and made one source data for some of the dialouge. Yesterday I recorded the rest and created another source data because theres more the character needs to say in the scene. However when I try to import another source data the first one goes away is there a way to import multiple dat files or can you just do one at a time, export than do another ?

Thanks

rylleman · Post by **rylleman** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:04 am

You can't import two .dats directly to one layer.
You could do this manually, if you open up your .dat in some text editor you'll see that they are very easy built, just copy the content of the second file and paste it at the end of the first one. (assuming the second one starts at a later frame than the first frame. If not, you'll have to change the frame values of the second one.) Import the merged dat.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon May 21, 2007 1:14 pm

If both dat files start at the beginning so to speak there might be a simpler way to solve this.

Just duplicate the switch layer you are using for the lip sync. On the copy import the second piece of dialog and move the switch keys. Then you would set the visibility on and off for each switch at the appropriate point in the time line.

The ultimate problem won't be the dat files but the sound files. You can only have one sound file in AS as a sound track so I'm curious what you are doing with the sound.

Did you merge the 2 sound files into one? Or are you adding the sound in post? If so the trick I suggested above would work fine.

-vern

chumamania · Post by **chumamania** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:36 pm

Cool cool I knew there had to be a way, thanks so much, really appreciate it.

chumamania · Post by **chumamania** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:10 am

Oh and yea im adding the sound in last in final cut i thought it would be easier.