Joshua Hintsa - How I 2D animate

The first thing I used for 2D animating is hand drawing by using Macromedia Flash 8, then I save all these sketches and open them up with Paint Tool Sai. After I added lineart, colored and optionally shadows and shading, I import them to a video editing software (I used Pinnacle Studio 15 before), where I add the drawings' position frame-by-frame. I can add sounds when I need to. I then save both the project and video file of that finished animation.