Lip Sync Animation Software

Looking for resonable priced very easy to use lipsync
animation software to use in Captivate. I saw something on here a
few days ago, but now I am not able to located again.

Hi Trenten2
Is the thread linked below what you were thinking of?
Click
here to see the thread
Cheers... Rick

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Auto Lip Sync for Animation (Mac)

Hey, I'm just wondering if anyone knows if there are any
programs out there that will automatically lip sync your animations
for Flash that are available for OS X. I've found a few out there,
but they're for Windows.
If not, does anyone have a simple trick to make it less time
consuming? I used to mess around in Flash but it's been ages. I
remember essentially making each character a movie? Or was it
making the mouth a movie? It ended up being that on the timeline
you would just press a button and the right mouth would come up.
Uhg. I bet that sounds mental.
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. Just keep in
mind my Flash knowledge is super limited.

Hi, I know this is an old post, but I'm writing in case people are still looking for a solution.
Our new SmartMouth extension (http://smartmouth.ajarproductions.com) works right inside Flash (and is cross-platform)!
You can also use our free FrameSync extension to speed up any manual lip syncing.

Animation with lip sync

We have produced some simple facial animations with lip
synced voices using
TTS. When played back on pocket PC the lip sync is way out.
Is this a
limitation of the flash player or the pocket PC power.???

> We have produced some simple facial animations with lip
synced voices
> using TTS. When played back on pocket PC the lip sync is
way out. Is this
> a limitation of the flash player or the pocket PC
power.???
I'd expect to see that if the device doesn't have the
horsepower to do what
you are asking of it. See if you can optimise the animations
in some way.
Steve
EuroTAAC eLearning 2007
http://www.eurotaac.com
Adobe Community Expert: Authorware, Flash Mobile and Devices
My blog -
http://stevehoward.blogspot.com/
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http://www.tomorrows-key.com

How do I get rid of lip-sync issues with iTunes 10.2.2.12?

Hi Everyone.
Firstly, a very Happy Easter!
I'm having lip-sync issues with iTunes playback on my PC. The video is largely smooth with the occaisional choppiness when the CPU is made to work hard. (Playback on my iPod Touch is fine).
The system stats for my PC are at the bottom of the post.
The sound is produced through a Creative Live Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 card.
Video is through a NVIDIA Geforce 6200 with 512Mb of RAM. (All video and audio drivers are up to date).
The physical set-up is that I have iTunes installed on the C drive and my media installed on an external USB hard-drive.This isn't just a problem with 10.2.2.12 - it's been there for the last few updates.
I suppose my main questions are:
Should iTunes and my media be on the same drive? (Which would mean the external drive as I'm short on space on the C drive).
Is there some combination of settings in QuickTime that will solve this? (I've tried different combinations, but it doesn't really help).
Is the spec (below) of my PC causing any issues.
Here's an Easter Egg for anyone able to help!!
All the best
BandAidUK.
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Select *List view* instead of *Album list view*. These are in the View menu or the boxes next to Search, on the right top of iTunes.
and the column next to it with a number in it that I have absolutely no idea what it's for. I want those two columns OUT.
In List view, you can turn off every column (in menu View > View options) except track name.

SWF poor quality and poor lip sync?

I normally use After Effects and today is my first time experimenting with Flash.
I create virtual presenters that are filmed against a green chromakey screen. I use Keylight in AE to key the green and replace it with different backgrounds. These are then saves as .FLV files.
In my current project the client really wants SWF files. I have tried to convince them to accept FLV's but they won't take them. So, my task is to basically convert my high quality FLV files created in After Effects to SWF's.
I've imported the FLV into Flash and exported it again as an SWF. However, the quality is very very poor and the video is playing at half the speed of the audio, which throws the lip sync off.
Can some please walk me through the correct process of importing the FLV and converting it to a high quality SWF file? As this is my first time with Flash it will need to be a 'take my hand' walkthrough as Flash is very new to me and I am not at all familiar with the softwae interface etc.
The poor quality SWF I created is attached, as well as the high quality FLV I am working from. My task is to create an SWF that replicates the quality of the FLV.
Many thanks.

I would take what Kglad has said a little further. Lyp syncing a live action video of a person with flash is impossible. You could probably do it with some kind of animated figure.
The client is not always right. Unless they have a limitless budget and are willing to fund you and a team for a year or so, I would suggest that you all take a look at why they want a swf.
If they think it is because swfs offer good quality, scalable raster graphics, in a small file size...well they are wrong. For this kind of video the file size will be just as large or larger than an FLV and it won't scale up without getting pixelated.
If they think it is because the swf is easy to play back and an FLV isn't...well they are kind of correct. But in that case the answer is to create some kind of player that plays back the FLV.
Those are the only two reasons that I can think of why someone would say, "Oh we have to have a swf."
Maybe there are others?

CC Audio plays out of lip sync from video - Version 6 plays fine.

If I place a single DV NTSC video clip in a timeline in Premiere Pro CC (7.0.1 (105)) - the clip is out of lip sync. I have tried software/hardware rendering with no change.
If I open the same DV clip in a timeline in Premiere Pro 6 - the clip plays fine.
I of course cannot open the CC clip in version 6. All I am doing here is placing a single DV clip in the timeline to cut new start/end and export to MP4 - no effects, filters, nada. I noticed the MP4's were out of sync, then noticed the originals would not play right in the timeline.

I cleaned the cache and re-opened the project - no difference.
On all four of the clips I was working with the video was 5 frames early, so I ended up unlinking everything and shifting the audio 5 frames and exporting.
I also noticed I am not seeing the closed caption display. I am going to uninstall/reinstall CC.

DVD Lip-Sync issues on HDTV playback

Hi, was looking for info regarding lip-sync issues after burning a DVD in DVDSP. Playback on a monitor is grand, but playback on two HDTVs have shown the entire DVD, all tracks to be out of Sync by the same time. Is this anything to do with Progressive/interlaced fields? I know that HDTV and AV systems can have issues with the processing of Progressive streams and there can be a delay with the Video which can be adjusted in their system settings but i can't expect 1000+ people to all change their settings to accommodate my DVD! lol
I shot on DSLR 25P, edited in Premiere in 25P, exported then i imported into Compressor and dropped the DVD: Best Quality 90min preset on it (MPEG-2 Video, 720 x 576 (1,048 x 576), Dolby Digital Pro 2.0 at 192kps). Then imported them into DVDSP and burned the DVD. I can't see in the preferences or anywhere in DVDSP whether this is a Progressive or Interlaced project so i don't know what my final output is onto DVD. Perhaps it just follows what is imported as an asset and im assuming at the moment to change that i have to change Progressive to Interlaced somewhere ealier in the workflow.
Because I shot on DSLR 25P, edited in 25P i exported, after much trial and error, the files from Premiere as : Match Source HI-Bitrate:
H.264 (as source)
25P AVC Coding,
1,920 x 1,080 AAC,
Square Pixels (1.0)
VBR 2 Pass
48000 Hz, Stereo (L R),
6.32 Mbit/s
(For some reason when i tried to use Adobe Media Encoder for batch exporting nothing happened after it opened, so i chose all my settings from Premiere export and did all the files individually).
So just to re-cap, why am i getting Lip Sync issues when burned to DVD and played back on an HDTV? and how can i correct this issue?
Kind regards,
Sai Kelly
For anyone interested in the background:
The reason i chose the above settings was because I was having severe issues in quality of the .M2V file for the green screen sequences during interviews, particularly with people's hair when i chose to export from Premiere or Media Encoder with any kind of DVD settings. I spent a few days trying different types of exporting, methods and presets. This was the best version and i stopped once i acheived this result. Might have been simpler to continue to try a 720p version of the above before importing to Compressor. Here is the issue, you can see the 'snowy' hair problem:
some of the different settings i tried:
Ignore 'Quality 50' below, i changed it to 80 or 100 after the screenshot and before i clicked Export.
The "Match Source HI-Bitrate" gave me the best results (blue background re-added in After Effects):
Kind regards,
Sai Kelly

Hi Ann,
Thank you for your opinion, though i disagree.
As i said above I did try exporting directly from Premiere as Mpeg2 in many versions when i was attempting to solve the issue by changing the Bit Rate. But to no avail. The above screen shots were attempts to export a 'highest quality option' for re-encoding with a software designed specifically to compress. I don't like re-encoding as much as anyone else, but this was the only option left as Media Encoder didn't help and without beginning again and using Encore. The same would have had to happen with Encore anyway as there appears to be no Dynamic Link in Premiere Pro CC to Encore as there wasn't yet a version of Encore CC.....just checking there....After Effects and Premiere have new updates just released Media Encoder CC 7.1 which i will check out but still nothing from Encore.
I don't think you can help me with this particular issue, Ann and i'd like to hear from some other voices. Unless you have any thoughts or suggestions that will help with the Lip-Sync issue.
Thanks again,
Sai

Magpie or Papagayo Lip-Sync?

Ok, I've just gotten through learning Anime Studio Pro. It's like Toon Boom. I've been wanting to learn how to do character animation for a while and Motion is not the perfect solution. Cool thing with Anime Studio is the "bone" structure so you can build and manipulate characters and design custom "actions" to do common things.
Phenome Lip-Sync (exact mouth move matches) is done through an external program, either Magpie or Papagayo. Papagayo is free, but REALLY limited. But it basically makes a .dat file which consists of list of keyframe/frame positions and a corresponding "switch-layer." Makes it very easy to program lip moves quickly and send to Anime Studio Pro, or After Effects, Maya... etc.
My question is this : This concept of a switch layer is really powerful: Is there a way to do this in Motion?
FYI : A switch layer is like a group with a number of layers/drawings in it. Only one can be visible at a time. SO you can click on one and the others will all not be visible. Perfect for lip moves or expressions, hand positions, etc.
Motion seems to be limited to having to keyframe the opacity of EVERY other layer to do this.
Message was edited by: Adam - Trigger Studios

Wow! Okay that is the problem with someone who has never used scripts trying out a script with thin documentation. I was looking for the script in the "Scripts" menu. I now see it under "Window". Thank you Paul.

Gigaworks and audigy 2 zs platinum lip sync is

Can smeone form creative please help me with this issue.
I have loads of external dvd players, a pacific, an xbox, 4 yamadas, accoustic solutions, scanvision, etc etc.
This is what is happenning, i am connecting the pacific dvd players optical out (or coaxial) It makes no difference as they both do it.
Press play to watch dvd, and start watching movie, the longer the movie plays and even in the first 5 minutes of playback the lip sync starts to go out, this is with the use installed decoder checked on soundcard and doly digital decode slected instead of default, spdif byass.
If i stop or pause the dvd and press play the lip sysnc comes back in, then it gradually goes out again.
Now it is not the dvd player. as it does this with the xbox as well, and the yamada, etc etc, this is on a clean installation of win xp pro, the only things that are in are chipset drivers, gfx card driver and the full installation of the audigy 2 zs platinum driver disc.
I connect the optical out or the coaxial ut to the optical in on aud 2 zs plat li've bay, and the same with the coaxial in on aud 2 zs plat li've bay, but only one at a time.
Can someone tell me why this is doing this, i am 98% certain i do not get this from using aux 2 in.
Also it always says unknown or invalid spdif signal in the decoder options.
Also it fails to initialize the dolby digital decoding when inserting the coaxial cable sometimes or rather 8 times out of ten, i have to either restart dvd player, or restart computer to get sound back.
I am not happy with either the s750 speakers whilst playing dvds or the audigy 2 zs card, the speakers are not very loud whilst playing most dvds and teh lip sync is not acceptable, i have used a dtt2200 and sb li've 5. witht the same dvd players and i never had this issue, granted this was on another computer, so i wil be try the s750 with the new computers onboard 7. sound chip to see if i get same issues, then i will be moving the sound card into another pci slot but i should not have to do this, as creative should have already tried this card in all available pci slots in all manufacturers motherboards to test the compatibility, if this issue remains can someone at creative tell me if they will give me a refund for the hardware of gigaworks s750 and audigy 2 zs platinum as www.dabs.co.uk will not give me a refund for these the speakers have only been in use for at most 2 weeks but are 3 weeks old and aud 2 card is about 0 weeks old but have only just been tested on my new computer as of at most 4 days as thats went i got all the other hardware to build up computer and i am most unhappy that dabs tell me they only do a refund or replacement upto 28 days, so creative it looks like the refunding of my money will fall to your company, but then after all it is your hardware, so you maybe can force dabs into giving me a refund , as after all it is your hardware and you will be able to reimburse dabs .

I tried it into all available pci slots on a fresh clean install of windows xp even the exclusi've pci slot was used, and even ehen it was in the other pci slots, it was not sharing an irq with anything anyways, it still does it whilst decodint the Dolby Digital Stream.
Have tried the driver updates for the card and it still does it.
I have the audigy 2 zs platinum witht the li've dri've I/O .
I have taken this card out and put my soundblaster 5. platinum card in, and the li've dri've IR that came with that card, and using the optical in or the coaxial in the same way as the Audigy 2 zs plat li've dri've ,and it decodes the 5. with perfect lip sync, however this is not true dolby digital decdong on the sb 5. card as you have to use the CMSS feature anyways on this card, so even though the ac-3 decode is ticked, it aint true Dolby Digital Decoding anyways.
So i took that card out, and put in my older audigy Platinum 5. card, and teh li've dri've that came with that card, and formatted windows, etc, then after xp went back in installed the audigy drivers etc, then connected the coaxial cable from external dvd player and This also plays the 5. with perfect lip sync, but again however this is not true dolby digital decoding on the audgy card, even tehough the option is selected ac-3 spdif decode in audio hq, You still have to use the CMSS feature to get kind of 5..
I know this to be true as when the 7. Audigy 2 zs plat card is in, when you play dvd from external dvd and use the optical or the coaxial to the fron of the li've dri've that came with audigy 2 zs plat, you get the Dolby Digital Logo appearring on the monitor screen to tell you that it is decoding etc, and teh Quality is very good and you can hear that it is a Dolby Digital 5. stream, APART FROM THE FACT THAT THE AUDIO GOES OUT OF SYNC WITH THE PICTURE.
So I know it has to be down to the actual hardware of the audigy 2 zs plat soundcard or the hardware in the Li've dri've that came with the audigy 2 zs plat soundcard. Its a shame that a lot more people that have bought this pruduct ie the audigy 2 zs platinum version, would not test there li've dri've soundcards dolby digital decoding using an external dvd player, so as we could get a better idea of the problem, AS there are only a couple of other users on this forum that have this harware and they have the same problem, so is it because these cards are faulty, or is it inherint in the hardware that cannot be fixed, cos it aint in the software, but how can we find out when no one seems to be able to tell for sure that a driver update will fix it.
Also Does the Audigy 2 zs platinum Pro suffer from this same lip sync issue whilst using the external dvd players optical out to the optical in to decode dolby digital 5. streams.
Saying as i spent over ?400 on the s750 gigaworks speakers and the Audigy 2 zs platinum soundcard, and that they are only 3-4 months old, and have just been installed into my computer (ie just opened within the last 2 weeks) i am really shocked to learn that nothing can be done and i have wasted a lot of money to get something that cannot do what it is advertised to do, And www.dabs .co.uk are reluctant to refund me my money on the basis that they only do refunds upto 28 days, so in my situation although i purchased the goods 3-4 months ago, i have only just got round to teseting the goods, as i needed the other bits to build computer up , like the case mnotherboard etc etc.
Come on creative, whats the score with this hardware.

Time remapping lip sync issue.

I'll try to explain this the best way I know how.
I created a pre-comp for my character mouths (as shown in the picture below). I then created a Null Layer and parented the Time Remapping of the mouth pre-comp to the Null Layer "rotation" using the principals of this video:
Part 1: "Using Time Remapping For Lip-Sync Part 01"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5GIOtfYWpQ
Part 2: "Using Time Remapping For Lip-Sync Part 02"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNJgUz1t2rU
I'm sure this is not new.
My problem is that when I render the video the mouths do not reflect what is shown during editing... While I am editing I can ram render a small portion and the mouths will line up as I intend but once I do a final rendering they are slightly off at times... What am I doing wrong here?
The screen shot shows that I am in my 'Mouths, LG' pre-comp and the cursor is situated to show "layer 23" in the "Mouths, LG pre-comp"... Now the preview window is showing one mouth for layer 23 (the wrong mouth) and when I open layer 23 you can see that a different mouth is shown towards the top left side of my attached image. I believe whatever is causing this is the problem but I don't know how to make it right.
I'm running windows 7 64bit if that matters and I am running After Effects CS6 Version 11.0.2.12
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are you nesting your Mouths comp in a main comp, enabling Time Remapping on that nested Mouths precomp and then animating? I can't tell from your screen shots.
And BEFORE nesting it, I'd also make that Mouths comp 1 frame shorter to eliminate that one empty frame at the end.
Nothing like instructions in the wrong sequence, right?

How to lip sync and see the sound wave better?

Alright, so first of all I will thank you for clicking this post!
There's 2 questions/problems, so if you got the solution on both/one of them, PLEASE post!
So I'm working on an animation where some guys sings and in order to make that look good, i need some good lip syncing.
Since this is not short clips, but a whole song on 2-3 minutes, it's very hard for me to make the lip sync perfect because I have to replay from the beginning in order to hear the music.
So question one is: Are there a way that I can play the movie in the middle and still hear the music?
And so the second question is that I can barely see the sound waves in the Music layer, even though there's lots of music.
Here's a picture of how big the sound waves are:
And that's in the middle of the song!
The problem is not that the music is too low, because it's quite high.
So question number two is: Are there a way that I can make the soundwaves bigger in the music layer without affecting the music itself?
Feel free to post even if you don't have the answer, so it will stay at the top till someone knows how to fix this!
Thanks from Mistah NovaNova

There are several ways to make the sound file, or any layer, more prominent in the timeline. In the upper right corner of the timeline window is a contextual menu. In that menu select Large. This will make all of the layers use a larger area in the timeline window. Set the frame rate to higher rate, say 100 or 150 fps. This will stretch the audio, and all of the other content over a larger space in the timeline.
Both of the above will make the audio track easier to see. Add a layer to the timeline and place key frames at points where you need. These will aid you in managing the audio.
I usually cut up the audio file into smaller chunks and place these end to end in the timeline, usually in different layers. The net effect on playback is that the sound plays as expected. On the timeline, I get a short chunk of content to work with. You cannot expect to maintain sync over any extended period of time in Flash, or any application like it. Keep the extent of any given synched section short and run them end to end. The audio and the visual portions of Flash are compiled separately and will be played back separately.

Can video be moved independently of audio to line up lip sync in premiere elements?

I need to move to new software I currently use fcp7. Can premiere elements handle lip syncing?I produce music videos

danieloc
What version of Premiere Elements are you using and on what computer operating system is it running?
In the absence of that information, I will give you a generalized answer
1. Unlink the audio from its linked video
a. right click the clip and select Unlink Audio and Video
or, if indicated,
b. right click the clip and select Delete Video or Delete Audio
Once the video and audio are unlinked,
a. Select the audio
b. Hold down the Alt key and tap on the right or left arrow key (one tap = 1 frame movement) OR hold down the Shift+Alt keys (together) and tap on the right or left arrow key (one tap = 5 frames movement).
It does work, but sometimes presents sluggish at times.
In Edit Menu/Project Settings/General, you may want to work with Display Format = milliseconds.
Please let us know if that worked for you.
Thanks.
ATR

Character lip sync

I'm looking for a program that will lip sync a character to
audio, and
export it a vector to be impoerted into Flash. The character
needs to be
able to be animated as well.
Site Pal is close to what I'm looking for, but I need to be
able to control
the animation. The characters need to be able to interact
with each other
and change costumes.
Thanks for any help.

Hi,
I see that this is an old post, but I wanted to reply in case anyone finds this thread in hopes of finding such a solution.
We have a product called SmartMouth that automatically lip syncs right inside Flash, so all the mouth shapes and keyframes remain completely editable.
You can find it at http://smartmouth.ajarproductions.com
Justin Putney
Partner, Ajar Productions
http://ajarproductions.com

Major Sync and software update issue with windows 7 and iphone

Loved my iPhone 3g and love my 4.0! My only concern is syncing and software updates are sporadic.
When I first purchased and sync'd my 3g on my laptop, that I had since 2005 w/XP home 64bit, it would constantly (1 out of 5 times) show phone was disconnected and could not sync. Purchased a desktop, 2009 w/Vista 64bit (same issue mentioned continued) then upgraded to windows 7 64bit (same issue mentioned continued).
Both pc's are authorized and contain the same apps and software. I went through all trouble shooting steps (authorize/deauthorize, phone hard boot, sync w/airplane mode on and/or off, uninstall and or reinstall iTunes, etc...) when both phones would brick after software updates on both pc's.
The last software update 4.0 and most recent 4.2.1 went well on laptop with XP and no longer shows sync issue. The problem continues on the windows 7 and backup has completed successfully 3 times.
Long story short, I have to pray the laptop never dies because iTunes, syncing and software updates on XP works now! The problem with software update, backups and syncing persists on windows 7.
* I was able to apply 4.2.1 software update on XP and then connect to windows 7 to sync and backup successfully. I then disconnected/reconnected iphone to windows 7 and problem happened again, unable to sync phone was disconnected error message.

I've had my new pc for over a year, never had any probs syncing my iphone (then a 3G but now the big 4!)
I went to sync updates to Apps and a couple of tunes I had downloaded straight to my phone only to get an error message 'iTunes has stopped working - windows is checking the problem' followed by another messaged telling me there was a problem causing the program not to work correctly. Windows will close the program and notify me if a solution is found'
Well..... I have NO music on my iPhone and every time I try to sync, the same error messages come up and the bloody program shuts down....

What video / animation software do I need for making a photos mouth move?

I would like to create a video of my son singing to an music track. I want to use a digital photo of him that I have and I want to make his mouth move in the photo as if he is singing the song. I would like it to look as real as possible. I am having trouble finding the right software to use. Does anyone have a suggestion? Will Apple Final Cut do this? Motion?

You can try to use anime studio for mac ($49.99), and it will use your sons image as a 2D.
But the quality will be more like a south park style and might not looks real.
I use Toon Boom Studio ($399), there was Toon Boom Express version ($49.99) last year, but now the developer stop developing that version.
for real result, maybe you should consider 3d animation or flash animation software instead of 2d software.
Good Luck.
Mike

Lip Sync Animation Software

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