Spotting
Spotting (Spotting) is one of methods for synchronizing video and music in animation production. As a feature of spotting, it is cited that music is completed first. Record the points on the spotting sheet from the finished music on the spotting sheet, and perform the production and drawing with the timing coordinated with this spotting sheet as the instruction sheet. In the opening and ending of an animated program to be broadcast on television, it is usual to switch cuts according to music, or direct the action of a character, and spotting is frequently used. Opening and ending of TV animation usually falls within 1 to 2 minutes, but animation films screened in theaters and the like may have several minutes to ten minutes, or even synchronize music and video for a longer time. In such a case as well, spotting is carried out, but as time goes on, the burden of drawing and editing work is large, and it is small as the number of works. ...