Introduction to Timeline

Creating Tracks and Sub-Tracks in Timeline

Working with Activation Tracks

Controlling Animation and Components in Timeline

Challenge: Add Animation and Activation Tracks in Timeline

Working with Audio Tracks in Timeline

Challenge: Add Sound to the Mars Rover Project

Creating Keyframed Animation in Timeline

Working with the Unity Recorder

Finalizing your Project and Bonus Challenges

Up to Speed with Timeline - Recorded Live Session

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Working with audio files is as straightforward as dragging and dropping the files into the Editor and selecting the tools you need to compose a sequence of audio tracks that will bring your scene alive.  In this tutorial, you'll add and configure audio using Timeline. 

Introduction

Open the Timeline Window

Adding an Audio Track

Properties of Audio Tracks

Properties of Audio Clips

Conclusion

In this exercise, you will use what you learned about working with Audio Tracks in Timeline to apply sound to the Mars Rover Project. 

Add Audio Tracks

Animating the Rover

The Unity Recorder is an Editor-only tool that allows you to record images or video of your project. In this tutorial, you'll use the Unity Recorder to record video and images.

Installing the Unity Recorder Package

Launching the Unity Recorder

Recorder Options

Adding a Recorder

Recording to MP4 Video

Recording to an Image Sequence

What is the Unity Recorder?

Setting Recorder Options

Timeline-LearnLive-assets.zip

UpToSpeedWithTimeline-2019.3.zip

In this project you will learn how to create a cinematic sequence using the Mars Rover assets.

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The Unity Timeline Editor is a built-in tool where you create and edit cinematic content, gameplay sequences, audio sequences, and complex particle effects. In this tutorial, you'll see the various features of Timeline.

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The Unity Timeline Editor is a built-in tool that allows you to create and edit cinematic content, gameplay sequences, audio sequences, and complex particle effects. You can move clips around the Timeline, change when they start, and decide how they should blend and behave with other clips on the track. 

Each Scene you create with Timeline Editor consists of a Timeline Asset and a Timeline instance. A Timeline Asset is any media (tracks, clips, recorded animations) that can be used in your project. It could be an outside file or an image. It could also be assets created in Unity, such as an Animator Controller Asset or an Audio Mixer Asset. 

A Timeline Instance is created by associating a Timeline Asset to a GameObject through a Playable Director component. Note that the GameObject must have an Animator component and the Timeline Instance is Scene-based. 

1. Select the GameObject that you want to use as the focus of your cinematic or create an empty GameObject to hold this Timeline Asset. 

2. Go to Window > Sequencing > Timeline. From there click the Create button in the Timeline window and Save (Figure 01). This Editor window is where you control assets and sequences.  

3. Figure 02 shows six different types of tracks, seven if you have Cinemachine installed. Each Asset you control in this Timeline sequence is represented by its own track.   

Track Group lets you make a collection of tracks.

Activation Track controls when to activate a track on the Timeline.

Animation Track allows you to import existing animation clips or create an animation from scratch directly within Timeline. 

Audio Track allows you to import existing audio clips and make edits. Note that you cannot preview audio outside of Play mode. 

Control Track lets you take control of time-related elements of a GameObject, such as a PlayableDirector or a ParticleSystem. 

Playable Track allows you to trigger other timeline sequences. 

Signal Track establishes a communication channel between the Timeline and outside systems. 

Cinemachine Track Allows you to control Cinemachine cameras within the Timeline.

In Figure 03 and Figure 04, you can see what these six tracks look like in the Timeline: 

4. You can preview your Timeline by clicking the Preview button on the top left of the Timeline Editor. In Preview, you can also make adjustments and play back your track in real time.

5. Once you’ve finished editing, you can lock the track by clicking the drop-down menu and selecting Lock (Figure 04). 

Unity Timeline serves a wide range of needs. It gives creators the power to edit in-context and is very user-friendly. You can freely arrange your GameObjects, animations, particles, and sound and quickly generate your own content.  

Introduction to Timeline

1. Introduction to Timeline

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