# Sound Element Editor

You can use the Sound Element Editor dialog box to modify the sound elements in your animation.

With the Sound Element Editor, you can:

- Set a sound element to be a streamed sound by checking the Streamed option. If you leave this option unchecked, the selected sound will be an event sound.
- Change the start and end frame of the sound element.
- Trim sections from the beginning and end of a sound (by changing the start or end time of a sound).
- Create a fade-in/out on a sound.
- Import and delete sound.
- Compute and modify the lip sync assignment of a voice track.

The Sound Element Editor has two panels that display wave forms:

- The waveform in the Sound Element panel represents the contents of the entire sound element. The start and end frame of different sound files within the element are marked with their frame number.
- The waveform in the Current Sound panel at the bottom represents the waveform you select in the Sound Element panel. It shows the duration of the sound in seconds.

This is different from the Sound Element panel, which displays the duration of the sound in frames.

The Sound Element Editor also has a Lip Sync panel that appears to the right of the Sound Element panel.

After you compute the lip sync of a voice track, the top image in the panel (the Lip Sync Preview Image) displays the lip position and letter of the sound at the frame you select.

The smaller images that appear below the Lip Sync Preview image are all of the lip sync assignment options.

To open the Sound Element Editor dialog box:

- Select a sound element and select Element > Edit Sound.

See Also
Importing Sounds
Lip Synching
Editing Sounds