Re: FLASH: Lip-syncing

[James Poulakos]

I'm coming to this late, but I have an idea: look up Third Wish Software's 

"Magpie Pro" on the web. It's really meant to assist 3D animators with 

lip-sync, but it's a stand-alone app that helps you prepare a dope sheet, 

something similar to the sheets used by cel animators to plan their scenes. 

It will use a library of mouth or face poses [you create these and make 

images of them].


Or, for $299 I think, you can get Hash's Animation:Master, an inexpensive & 

powerful 3D app which just happens to have the phoneme-recognition feature 

you describe. I don't have experience with that feature, but I know that 

the Hash app writes its files out in ASCII code, so if you feel like doing 

some programming, maybe you can take its phoneme-driven output data and use 

it to drive your Flash objects. Doubt it, but I thought I'd mention that 

the software has phoneme-recognition, as described below.



>At 02:05 PM 8/4/00 -0400, you wrote:

>> > > Wow ... so you're looking for something that will auto-detect vowel and

>> > > consonant sounds in a wav file and drop in your mouth charts

>>automatically?

>> > > Yikees.  Tell me what you come up with!   :)

>> > > - Ryan Creighton

>> >

>> > Oh, oops. I read the other email first, then this one and didn't consider

>> > detecting it in a wav file... I think - couldn't you type the text in for

>> > flash to detect (have it get the text info for changes) and then set the

>>wav

>> > and the movie to sync? I can't think of any way flash could be told to

>>read

>> > the sounds in the wav - it doesn't do anything but play them.

>>

>>Everyone, thanks for thinking about this issue.

>>I wasn't trying to suggest anything about what direction to take in this,

>>just wondering if anyone had had any dealings with anything similar.

>>Interesting ideas so far (as much as I understand them), but my skill level

>>is likely way below what I'd need to chase after any of them.

>>

>>It may come down to: "Pay, or no way."

>>I don't have ANY idea just how much work there'll be on this project... I'm

>>investigating in a vacuum.

>>

>>-Brian Matthews

>>

>>

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