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how to lip sync???

i have been using flash to create some animations but have stumbled across a problem with effectively mastering lip sync with my characters and was wondering if anyone could give me some tips on the best way to deal with this? i remember reading somewhere that animation studies use to (they still may) use a special sheet with the sound broken up into frame by frame so each individual phoneme could be identified and i was curious if anyone knew of a program that would emulate the same process? any advice would be gratefully recieved!!!! :D

Magpie (Third Wish Software) actually creates an x-sheet for you and can also export video clips. The Pro Version has automatic track reading and interfaces with a number of other animation programs. The pro version also allows additional tracks for other parts or expressions. Great price, too.

Toon Boom is a complete animation program that also does automatic lip synch assignments, and can output to Flash or Quicktime. I wind up using Magpie to clean up the mistakes made by Toon Boom. Toon Boom has a sound editor that is alright, but the interface in Magpie is a lot easier to work with in getting frame accurate lip reading down.

Cartoon Thunder
There's a little biker in all of us...

Flash lip sync

Hi, you don't need 3rd party software to animate to dialogue in Flash. I was an early Flash director (for Studio B Productions) and have been teaching Flash as a broadcast animation tool since 2000 at Capilano College.

Some of my recent grads are now Flash animation directors on: Mucha Lucha (Warner Bros), Atomic Betty (Atomic Cartoons), Being Ian (Studio B Productions) and Yakkity Yak (Pork and Beans). They all learned how to animate to dialogue in just a couple hours. Here's how:

Just make sure your Flash sound properties for the frame your dialogue is on is set to: STREAMING, not EVENT.

That way you'll hear the sound as you "scrub" along the timeline. Attached is my info sheet for the theory of animating to dialogue. Make sure you pop the mouth open on the vowels and inbetween them closed. With just a little practice, you will be lip synching like a pro....

If you want to see my students' animations, many with lip sync, go to http://www.gradshow.com and check out the gallery of student work.

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trouble exporting lipsynch in flash

Hi, you don't need 3rd party software to animate to dialogue in Flash. I was an early Flash director (for Studio B Productions) and have been teaching Flash as a broadcast animation tool since 2000 at Capilano College.

Some of my recent grads are now Flash animation directors on: Mucha Lucha (Warner Bros), Atomic Betty (Atomic Cartoons), Being Ian (Studio B Productions) and Yakkity Yak (Pork and Beans). They all learned how to animate to dialogue in just a couple hours. Here's how:

Just make sure your Flash sound properties for the frame your dialogue is on is set to: STREAMING, not EVENT.

That way you'll hear the sound as you "scrub" along the timeline. Attached is my info sheet for the theory of animating to dialogue. Make sure you pop the mouth open on the vowels and inbetween them closed. With just a little practice, you will be lip synching like a pro....

If you want to see my students' animations, many with lip sync, go to http://www.gradshow.com and check out the gallery of student work.

hey since you all seem to have experience lipsynching in flash..have any of you ever had the animation appear out of sync with the audio once you exported your animation as either a quicktime or image sequence?? the animated lipsynch looks right consistently in flash but once I take it out of flash it appears to be moving too slow or just generally wonky and out of sync. i am animating at 12 fps.

I tend to notice this "latency" problem when there are a lot of sounds on alot of layers. I guess it's a processing computer thing. DIgital sounds are a funny thing; it may be faster or slower but the pitch remains the same which can confuse us.

The way I have solved this...and it seems to work... is to export the flash document as a wav and then import that file back into the flash document. All the sounds are "married" on one layer and it has tended to sync up when exporting the animation. Of course delete the former sound layers.

i have been using flash to create some animations but have stumbled across a problem with effectively mastering lip sync with my characters and was wondering if anyone could give me some tips on the best way to deal with this? i remember reading somewhere that animation studies use to (they still may) use a special sheet with the sound broken up into frame by frame so each individual phoneme could be identified and i was curious if anyone knew of a program that would emulate the same process? any advice would be gratefully recieved!!!! :D

I recently did a macromedia Breeze presentation on lip syncing in flash - i use a graphic symbol with each mouth on a different frame. on tha main timeline i can then control the instance of this symbol with the instance panel (loop, play once, single frame).
see the presentation here:
lip sync breeze preso...

Awesome...

I'll be teaching Flash in a few months to my Multimedia class (mostly 9th graders...). Will this be online for a while? And can I use it with them?

Thanks either way. I've never tried it this way.

Cartoon Thunder
There's a little biker in all of us...

Awesome...

I'll be teaching Flash in a few months to my Multimedia class (mostly 9th graders...). Will this be online for a while? And can I use it with them?

Thanks either way. I've never tried it this way.

Yes - it should be online for a while - MM may even re-purpose it as a featured article - like they did for my other breeze preso:
character animation breeze preso...

you are 100% allowed to use it - MM regards it as my own property - so they leave it up to me - and i say use it to your heart's content.

-chris