Display sound waveform in animation editors

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Note: This addon needs ffmpeg in your path to work (on windows a button in addon pref allows an auto install)

This addon use ffmpeg, if not already accessible on your machine, an auto-install is available in addon preferences

Display scene audio sound in editor using following interface:

On : Enable or refresh

Off : Disable

Height offset : Allow to manually tweak the peak heights (sometimes it might display too small or too high)

There are several options to select sounds show waveform.

Source:

• All
• Sequencer only (default).
• Speaker only

If sequencer source is used, more options are available:

• Selected Strips : Display only selected strips in sequencer (even muted ones)
• Sound In List : Display only sound from listed sequencer strip within panel (list even muted ones)
• Audible Strips : Display all audible strips in sequencer
• Scene Range : Display sequencer audio only on scene range (not preview range)

In the preferences you have come customizable settings:

Waveform color : Customize color as you like (note: too dark values might fail and use white instead)

Waveform details : Details (as resolution) of the generated wave image
choose between Blocky, Very Low, Low, Medium (default), High
The waveform aspect will be more detailed, as you go up but will take more time to generate and take more memory.

Verbose : prints status and commands in console for debugging purposes.

Dopesheet/ Graph editor / Timeline sidebar (N bar) > Display tab > Display Waveform panel