LipSync

Overview

The Lip-sync effect helps to facilitate sequencing singing faces. It is a multi purpose effect that has evolved over the years into a powerful tool for syncronizing lyrics to your face mapped props. This effect relies on the mapping of the face properies in your elements in order to work properly.

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Configuration

• Phoneme/Marks This setting determine how the LipSync effect behaves.
  • Mark Collections Since Version 3.5. This set the effect to get its phomeme information from the Marks in a Mark Collection. This is the default and the most common way to use the effect.
    • Mark Collection This sets the Mark Collectin that contains the Marks with the Phonemes in it. There are typically 3 types of collections. Phrases, Words, and Phonemes. You select the Phonemes one here.
    • Allow Mark Gaps When enabled, the effect does not fill gaps between the Marks with a REST.
  • Phoneme This allows the effect to be used in manual mode where you configure the phoneme you want to use specifically.
• Mapping Type This allows you to choose the mapping type. This controls how phonemes are mapped to the individual elements in your Prop.
  • Face Mapping This option is used when you have a Prop that is usually a defiend shape and you have mapped specific elements to the mouth phonemes.
  • Image Mapping This option is used for matrix type props that use an image for a mouth shape rather than mapping individual lights or elements.
• Eye Mode This sets how the eyes should be handled when the effect is active.
  • Open This sets the eyes to open using the open eyes mapping.
  • Closed This sets the eyes to be closed using the eyes closed mapping.
  • Off This sets the effect to ignore turning on the eyes.
• Show Outline This sets the effect to turn on the outline using the outline mapping.

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Lip-Sync Enhancements

Since Vixen 3.5

 

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Lyric Tracks

A good way to get lyric tracks that are very close to begin with is to use a track generator. One that works pretty well is the Autolyrics site. One of our users made a video that gives an overview of the process. When selecting the mark track to use in the effect, be sure to use the Phoneme one. If you need to make adjustments, you can adjust the phoneme marks to better align with the lipmovements you want. If the track is slightly off, you can select and move the blocks of phrases, words, phonemes to meet your needs. In most cases this gets you very close.