[Byron Purvis]

“Dream on”? Your comment is not at all helpful. You should just refrain from commenting unless you have something useful to say. It’s a very valid question, and something I’ve been researching for quite a while…

There are a number of lip sync applications that can take an audio file, analyze the phonemes and help automate the process. Papagayo and the Lipsync widget for Mac do a fair job of syncing and making after effects keyframes, but it takes some fidgeting and expressions to get it to work! There’s also a java app called JLipSync, but I didn’t have much luck with it since it would only take 8-bit mono wav files as input.

As far as I know, there is no completely automated solution for after effects yet, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time/money.

If you want to step away from After Effects, applications like Anime Studio Pro 7 or ToonBoom Studio might be better solutions, but they cost between $200-400.

The current solution I’m using is not completely automatic, but it does speed up the process significantly…

I use a combination of Aaron Rabinowitz’s tutorial and a technique I found on youtube, where I speed up the mouth selection by pick-whipping the +/- keys (which normally control rotation) on a null layer, to a time remapped pre-comp containing my mouth shapes.

See the following links for more info …

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/lip_synch.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5GIOtfYWpQ

Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.

[Byron Purvis]

Here’s my first attempt… https://vimeo.com/2834852

Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Vimeo framework” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.

[Byron Purvis]

Wow, huge help. Thanks! Yeah, it’s totally for comedy, so I’m thinking more of the Conan O’Brien look is what I’m after. The laying on the floor trick sounds like a good idea. I was going to tape a towel onto a lighting stand for padding and rest my chin on it, but laying on the floor might be easier. I’ll probably try both 🙂

[Byron Purvis]

Sweet, worked like a charm! I ended up having to add those values instead of subtracting, but it works now! Thanks a bunch 🙂

Now it’s time for me to dig into that PDF guide on the install disk 😉

[Byron Purvis]

Ok, I solved my problem! It turns out it was something stupid after all. The “no sound” part of the equation seems to be the culprit. Even though I don’t have any audio in the project, I decided to leave the sound on and export again. BLAMO! It worked 🙂

After all that! Just leaving sound on was the fix. Sigh. I still think I’m going to stick with the 7.3.1 quicktime for now as well. As long as everything is working, I don’t want to change a thing!