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Hello!
This one here is a little bit weird, but I like to do lipsync animation inside of Edius, and export that facial animation as an AVI into a separate animation software.
What I have is a set of PNG images - each one a different mouth shape - that I essentially copy/paste over the waveform, following along so that the shapes match the sound.
Basic lipsync. Aardman style.
But I spend a fair amount of time just scrolling to the right, selecting the mouth shape, Ctrl + C / copy, bring the playhead back to where I left off, Ctrl + V/paste...
It would be phenomenal if there was a way to hotkey to place certain mouth shapes (PNG files) with keystrokes. It would save SO much time.
I'm familiar with Adobe's Character Animation software and other automated solutions - I just like doing lipsync the traditional and precise way.
I've tried solutions within After Effects (where I do the rest of the animation) and they are nice, but I find I can't get as ACCURATE a read/match as I can in Edius, which is realtime and right on the money as far as which frame hits at which sound.
And if not built into Edius, is there a 3rd-party solution that can hook into global keystrokes and allow for custom pasting like this?
I appreciate any help on this!
OJO
This one here is a little bit weird, but I like to do lipsync animation inside of Edius, and export that facial animation as an AVI into a separate animation software.
What I have is a set of PNG images - each one a different mouth shape - that I essentially copy/paste over the waveform, following along so that the shapes match the sound.
Basic lipsync. Aardman style.
But I spend a fair amount of time just scrolling to the right, selecting the mouth shape, Ctrl + C / copy, bring the playhead back to where I left off, Ctrl + V/paste...
It would be phenomenal if there was a way to hotkey to place certain mouth shapes (PNG files) with keystrokes. It would save SO much time.
I'm familiar with Adobe's Character Animation software and other automated solutions - I just like doing lipsync the traditional and precise way.
I've tried solutions within After Effects (where I do the rest of the animation) and they are nice, but I find I can't get as ACCURATE a read/match as I can in Edius, which is realtime and right on the money as far as which frame hits at which sound.
And if not built into Edius, is there a 3rd-party solution that can hook into global keystrokes and allow for custom pasting like this?
I appreciate any help on this!
OJO
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