[Blahtor Magnus]

Well, I can do basic lip sync by swapping the audio tracks, yes.
I have set my markers during the recording sessions and the primary sync will not be a problem.

Problem is that I want to make things PERFECT.
A singer can not lip sync 1:1 with the playback song even after 1000 takes.
But what you say makes sense. Maybe I will decide not to make things that perfect.

If i decide to go the easy way and not do any extra tweaking, then I guess working with Premiere will be better than Vegas.

What is left is to learn how to make Premiere and AE work together for my purpose.
Any tutorials on this?
Any workflow tips?

Thanks!

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[Blahtor Magnus]

Guys, please, download the 3D-PSD file and tell me what is wrong.
Here:
https://download468.mediafire.com/2ptbvzrmxxrg/eol3vum1mzx/drums.zip

[Blahtor Magnus]

I got the 3D model of the drum set from the internet.
It is very nice.
Then I only used PhotoShop to convert this 3D model to 3D PSD.

Now the 3D PSD is giving me those troubles in AE.

HERE is a link to a zip file with the drums PSD inside.
Check it out – import it in your AE and see how it behaves.
https://download468.mediafire.com/2ptbvzrmxxrg/eol3vum1mzx/drums.zip

[Blahtor Magnus]

OK, seems that these questions need to be in a separate thread after all.

[Blahtor Magnus]

OK, thanks. I will deal with the lipsync somehow.
I no loger consider it a problem.

What about the other two issues that I am having?
Anyone with an idea how to solve them?
I mean these problems:

2… I am going to use 3D drums from a 3D PSD for the music video.
I can’t make them work, though.
I have the 3D PSD with the drums and when I import it in the composition (it’s a 720 HD comp), it looks like it’s way too low-res – jagged, small and blurry. I tried enlarging the PSD in PhotoShop CS4, but it didn’t help with the low-res look in After Effects.

3… Also, that same PSD with the 3D drums shows it’s control gizmo far from the drums in AE’s 3D space.
Is there a way to make the gizmo coincide in space with the actual 3D drums, so to make things easier to move and rotate? It is a real PITA to work with a gizmo that is 100 virtual feet away from the 3D object it is controlling.
Maybe there is a way to fix this in PhotoShop CS4?

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[Blahtor Magnus]

OK, I will download the Premiere trial.
How do you do the lypsinc by hand in Premiere?

[Blahtor Magnus]

Hi, what you describe is the simplest way that is good only for rough matching of the tracks.

It is not good for real sync because no one can lypsinc 1:1 with the recording.
You can get very close, but without post-production tricks, it will not be PERFECT like in those MTV videos.

I am interested in those tricks.
Are there any of them for After Effects?

Another thing: I noticed that if I cut up the video, using “Alt + [” and then move the cut up part, the audio doesn’t follow.
It seems that the audio track does not get cut together with the video track.
This makes things even WORSE and does not allow me to even roughly match the tracks.

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[Blahtor Magnus]

Anyone?

[Blahtor Magnus]

Roland, chances are that I am doing something wrong.
Problem is that I don’t see what exactly…
I tried everything, read every tutorial, tried every tweak. No result.
it still gives me trouble when i try to import a 3D-PSD of a drum set in my composition.
Same thing happens when i try to import another 3D-PSD, so the ptroblem is not in the files.

Here is one possibility: I am using a composition file that was created in CS3 and that the CS4 automatically converted to its own format.
So now it is a CS4 composition and should behave like one. But hwo knows…

I will try to make a video, showing the problem but with my spoken English, it’s gonna be a disaster, hehe.

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[Blahtor Magnus]

I just upgraded to 9.0.1
Didn’t help.

I still have a problem importing a 3D-PSD into an already existent composition.
The only way to make it work is to import the 3D-PSD into a fresh composition.

I don’t know how to combine two compositions, though.