[Charles Boucher]

Sorry for the delay in response Brock.

I was advised to have each phoneme at 2 frames and just use time remapping, and to make sure to make the changes not below 2 frames i.e. don’t change lips every frame or it will look unnatural, does that make sense?.

It’s smoother in a different way now, it flows better I think.

[Charles Boucher]

Whoa I just figured it out, I clicked off ‘Continuous Rasterise’ on the precomp and it works now.

I have most of my layers o Contunuous Rasterise because I don’t want to compromise image quality in the renders.

Is there any reason why Continuous Rasterise’ would have caused my issue?.

[Charles Boucher]

Yes, the layer that should rotate stays non-rotated.

It works for some layers but not for others.

I’m not sure what could be countering the non-rotation, I checked inside the precomp itself and everything checks out.

[Charles Boucher]

No, that’s the only layer called ARMS_JM. Layer wise everything checks out, unless I accidentally pickwhipped it to something else but that would that not show in the code?.

I’ll see if I can recreate the same issue in a separate file but honestly I think it’s just a freak accident with this project.

[Charles Boucher]

here it is:

6097_sampleproject.aep.zip

This is how it should work, if you turn the slider control, in this file it actually works so I don’t know what the problem is with my project file.

Below are some screenshots, I am pick-whipping the composition’s rotation properties to the slider control:

Now when I change the values, it has no effect:

[Charles Boucher]

Hi Dan

I’m trying to control the rotation of the precomp itself, not what’s inside it.

I can control its rotation just fine on its own, but when I apply it to a slider control it doesn’t work.

Would the code you’ve added hep in this situation?.

[Charles Boucher]

None at all Dan, I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t either so I am confused.

Even when I set keyframes it has no bearing on the rotation values, the numbers change but there is no physical rotation on the object/precomp.

[Charles Boucher]

Hi Joseph,

Thanks for the reply.

I’ve checked out the sources you mentionned but for this particular setup and workflow, automated scripts will not work.

With the way my workflow is set up I will have to keyframe every phoneme which I don’t mind, the issue is just the transition, I could get away with it as it looks now but if I could blur thos lip movements somehow, the ‘smoothness’ of the lip transitions I’m looking for is something like this, so I guess I might have to blur the whole thing slightly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKayYZd0dSc

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[Charles Boucher]

That doesn’t work, and nothing happens when I hold these keys at the same time during the startup.

[Charles Boucher]

I would but I don’t think the rotobrush strokes would transfer to a new project, I will give that a shot though.

I’m not going to restroke everything though as this was the long and painful part. :p