[Jack 3D]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and comments. Donnie, when I first imported a sound file into Carrara I became aware that dragging the blue/black verticle line in the sound channel gave me an audible indication that there was a signal in the channel which made it all the more surprising that the sound channel remained silent while previewing the animation. After reading your post I tried scrubbing with it as you suggested but the sound I hear is so confusing as to make a music track impossible to work with (for me). No matter how slowly I drag the line, what I hear is a signal with mutiple repeats as if it's been run through a delay and I can't tell where I am in the track. By contrast, if I bring the same sound file into Flash (MX) and scrub with the playback head on the Flash timeline I can hear exactly where the accents and beats are. This is one workaround that has allowed me to add music to Carrara animation, by importing a jpeg sequence from Carrara into Flash and then adding and synching the music/sound on the Flash timeline. I can also work in a similar fashion in Final Cut Express and within my sound production software (Cubase LE). The disadvantage of working this way is if you have to tweak the animation you must go back to Carrara and then re-export and import the animation and of course, when you make your animation adjustments you're working silently. Mediamajic, I assume the three programs you mentioned offer full support for working with sound files. Maybe a future update to Carrara will extend its sound support capabilities.

Jack