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I suppose the AS Pro demo doesn't have any of the content provided correct? I was going to suggest looking at the "Fritz" character. He has head turns and interpolated mouth shapes for lip sync.
-vern
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I agree with Mkelly that doing lip sync by hand is the best way but is also the most time consuming. If you have short dialog sequences doing it by hand would not be too bad. If however you have to or want to produce a "series" each week and you have limited resources (uh... you do it all yourselfmkelley wrote: So the real bottom line is that if you want it to look right there is absolutely no substitute to doing it by hand, the way animators have done for decades.
Dreadful? Really? Dreadful? <sigh>mkelley wrote:I assumed by "automated" the poster was asking about something like the auto lip sync in AS 6 which is dreadful, IMHO.
No it wasn't Kate. I forget the actresses name. It was a clip from the old movie "Shop Around The Corner" with Jimmy Stewart. I had been only using AS for a few weeks or maybe a month or so when I did that. I had just started using Papagayo and it saved me HOURS of hand keying lip sync. I did 8 minutes of dialog in just a couple of days.(And that's a nice piece of animation and lip sync -- was that Kath Hepburn doing the dialog?)
I wasn't disagreeing with you about the quality of hand keyed lip sync. I was merely pointing out that the above statement might scare beginners off from doing something easier to suit their schedule and resources and still end up with fairly good results.So the real bottom line is that if you want it to look right there is absolutely no substitute to doing it by hand, the way animators have done for decades.
Can you explain your "challenge" in more detail? I checked over the document I did using the text I typed and the audio file and the correct phonemes were used in most cases properly and in the right spots. However in some frames they were wrong for what could be any number of reasons; the words were spoken to quickly and the auto syncing didn't get them in the right spot. I spelled the words wrong."For more accurate lip syncing, enter the spoken text below:
What the heck are you talking about? What or where do you see anything I wrote that eludes to a "challenge" in any way shape or form? See? It's things like this that make people think you DO have a hidden agenda or are reading things that aren't there.heyvern wrote: Can you explain your "challenge" in more detail? I checked over the document I did using the text I typed and the audio file and the correct phonemes were used in most cases properly and in the right spots. However in some frames they were wrong for what could be any number of reasons; the words were spoken to quickly and the auto syncing didn't get them in the right spot. I spelled the words wrong.