Lip Syncing in Flash MX

programming flash
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Can anyone point me to a well written tutorial on Lip Syncing in Flash. I want to draw a cartoon face and have it say the words that i record. Well, lip sync (obviously).

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

  • Glenn
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I don’t know of a tutorial but I did a similar thing with a kids music education cd. The characters had to be animated and dance intime with the beat.
I was also involved with the audio. Lets say the tempo of the song is 120 BPM you can then do the maths as to frame rate.

I would suggest you record the narration while watching the animation. Set the tempo to 120 BPM as it divides evenly into minutes. Set the audio to stream.

Hope that helps

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Thanks.

Just to clarify, I should try animating the face, then speaking the words, not the other way around?

If i have a 5 second long sound clip at 120 BPM, how many frames would that be? (my movie will run at 20 fps for smoothness in the animation) I’m really bad at math, and it’s late for me now.

Thanks.

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[COLOR=darkblue]Just to clarify, I should try animating the face, then speaking the words, not the other way around? [/COLOR]

Yea thats what I would do

if your sound is 5 secs and you are at 20 fps
5*20=100 frames

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I made a flash movie a little while ago that I had characters on. I recorded the sound then I uploaded it onto the movie. I set all the recorded lines to stream and put them on the timeline. Since it was on stream, I could move the bar and it would play as I moved it along. The slower I went, the slower it would play. It was very useful. I was able to get the mouths to move exactly how I wanted them to.

That’s just how I did it…

Recorded -> Uploaded -> Put them on Stream -> Added them to the timeline -> Animated. (-:

Hope that makes sense. :smiley: