Syncing animation to fixed audio track

If you have a single long audio track and the final video will be for Youtube, I think you should build your animations, export a series of MP4s, and do your syncing with the audio in Final Cut. There’s no one-click method to sync up animations to audio without doing a great deal of previewing + retiming in Hype.

There’s two methods to do this in Hype:

  • ‘Continue’ an animation when the audio track has exceeded a certain currenttime value. This requires creating an event listener for the audio element and creating a series of ‘if current time has exceeded X, then do Y’ statements. This method for syncing video would easily apply to audio: Sync animations to Video & Audio
  • Code free: Start your audio ‘on scene load’ and do your best to create animations that correspond to your audio.