How to Step Through Audio Frame by Frame?

[Anonymous]

Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way (either already in Maya or through a script) that would let me hear the imported audio as I step through the shot frame by frame, like you can with Premiere or Blender. It would help a ton with lip syncing, and right now, the only option is scrubbing through with the mouse, which isn't super precise.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[sean.heasley]

Hi @Anonymous and welcome to the community!

You can try going into Preferences->Time Slider-> and under Playback, make sure that the Playback Speed is set to Real-time. The audio file should play when you hit play on the timeline.

If you want to scrub through frame by frame, use middle-mouse and you be able to listen to it. 

Note: If the Playback Settings were set to Play Every Frame you may not hear the audio.

Please let me know if this helps or if you need any more assistance!

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[Anonymous]

Hey there, thanks for the response!

Playing the sound back isn't a problem, I can do regular playback and scrubbing through it just fine - it's just when I hit "Alt+," or "Alt+." and step through the timeline one frame at a time that I'm having the issue. Is there a way to do that?

[mspeer]

Hi!

You can be as precise as you want with mouse by changing the displayed frames in Time Slider.

Currently sound will only be played while mouse is pressed.

[sean.heasley]

Hi @Anonymous

@mspeer has the right idea. I don't believe this will work with the alt key clicks however you could change the time slider to show every frame and give yourself much more control over it.

Does that make sense?

[sean.heasley]

Hi @Anonymous

I'm just checking in to see if you need more help with this. Did the suggestions that @mspeer and I provided work for you?

If so, please click Accept as Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately not, but I can use the workarounds. Thanks for helping,
though!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hello,

This is a bit late but thought it might still help you. You can assign the following scripts to hotkeys to be able to step forward or back while hearing audio (I use shift+> and shift+<):

//Forward 1 frame

timeControl -e -beginScrub $gPlayBackSlider;

playbackStateChanged;

NextFrame;

timeControl -e -endScrub $gPlayBackSlider;

//Back 1 frame

timeControl -e -beginScrub $gPlayBackSlider;

playbackStateChanged;

PreviousFrame;

timeControl -e -endScrub $gPlayBackSlider;

Cheers

Liam

[Anonymous]

Oh man, THANK YOU for this. It works perfectly and you are an angel

[le_daiii]

Very old topic, but I was looking for the same thing, I found that when I just click on the timeline (not drag through it, idk why), the audio plays when i use my "next frame" or "prev frame" short cut. (Maya 2024)