Breaking Clips

If you have prepared a non-stop voice and you want to break it apart into several pieces, you do not need to re-create the voice again. By using the Break feature, you can cut the voice into different part so that the actor can have different voice clips and responses inserted into the empty frames between two trimmed clips.

1. Apply an actor in a new project.
   
2. Add a voice to the actor in Listen Mode. The voice is a sound file composed of several sentences. You may observe it in the Voice track.
3. Right click on the clip in the Viseme track where the sound wave is flat and you want to break it.
   
4. Select the Break command in the right-click menu.
   
5. Drag the latter half of the clip to another later time frame.
   
6. In the empty frame between the two clips, add another voice clip.
   
7. Apply a different auto motion to this new clip.
8. Playback the project and the actor will have new sound inserted into the original voice.
   

When the actor's facial motion affects the accuracy of lip-synching, then you may adjust the applied motion clip. In this example, the actor's facial motion affects the accuracy of lip-synching.

1. If you do not want the last half-motion, then press F3 to access the Timeline, and find the clip in the Motion Clip track.
   
2. Drag the play head to the time frame where you need to break the clip into new clips.
   
3. Click the Function button on the Timeline toolbar, and select Break from the clip editing drop-down list. You may alternatively right-click on the clip and select Break from the pop-up menu.
   
4. The clip will then be divided into two parts. Select the second one and delete it.
   
5. Playback the project and the actor's facial motion will not affect the lip-synching when talking.
   

You may extract partial clips of the loaded background music.

1. Click F3 to access the Timeline and find the clip in the Music track.
   
2. Drag the play head to the time frame where you need to break the clip up into new clips.
   
3. Click the Function button on the Timeline toolbar, and select Break from the clip editing drop-down list. You may alternatively right-click on the clip and select Break from the pop-up menu.
   
4. The clip will then be divided into two parts. Select the second one and delete it.
   
5. Click the Background Music button on the Timeline toolbar, and adjust the Fade out slider.
   
6. Playback the project and the background music will fade out at the end of the newly trimmed clip.