Flash: Lip Syncing Tutorial - Actually useful

I genuinely think this is the fastest lip syncing technique around - Well, fastest that looks any good.

Features: Voice overs! Thank goodness.
Also: Under 7 minutes long!

I've watched probably every Lip Syncing Tutorial, and I couldn't find anything even close to what I wanted. There's some good stuff, but it's all way too much work. So here's one I stole off Ed Atlin by watching every episode of 'Space Tree the Space Tree in Space' I could.

This technique isn't perfect for everything like professional jobs or drama, but works excellently for comedy and quick projects.

If you want to go all out, really want to spend a lot of time with it, I recommend this tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-foUw-27keY

Example:
Used in my animation 'Inanimated'
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/468780

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[OhSoDayumGawdly]

how do you get on this??

[helmutlord]

@OhSoDayumGawdly I'm not exactly sure what you mean.

If you mean, get into the program: You need to buy a copy of Flash (or Toon Boom Animate which is AMAZING and CHEAPER)

If you mean, how did I come across this technique: I studied Ed Atlin, who is a crazy genius, and tried a LOT of other things first

If you mean, how did I record my screen: Well I don't remember what program I used, but I use ScreenFlow now.

If you meant something else, uh, could you reword your question for me?

[Yadaistheword]

THAT WAS A HORIBLE TUTORIAL IT WASSENENT HELPFUL AT ALL

[helmutlord]

Haha! Yeah, I'm sorry. This tutorial was designed for people who's animations are in depth enough to feature moving mouths.

Perhaps I can recommend something dealing more with Flash basics?

[soffiethetoffee]

on my flash 8 i wanna lip sync a character to some music, but when I click 'play' the audio does play, but when I click 'stop' or just rewind the movie a bit, i just carries on playing like it's not even linked to the time line. This is gonna make it very hard for me to sync a character to it... do you know the problem????

Thanks

[helmutlord]

@soffiethetoffee

This is answered in the top rated comment, but I'm happy to answer this once again.

Event Audio will continue playing to the end no matter what.

Click on your audio in the Timeline and in the Properties box you'll see 'EVENT' - change this to 'STREAM'.

[helmutlord]

That has been answered multiple times in the comments - but regardless, I'd be happy to answer it again.

Click on your audio in the Timeline and in the Properties box you'll see 'EVENT' - change this to 'STREAM'.

[FappingFury]

@helmutlord thank you for this ;_;

[joelatoya]

I found a lip sync and facial expression software that works in Flash. It works much better than any automated system and it is much faster than doing it manually. It’s called Xpress and it’s on sale now for only $40. Check it out at doublebarreldigital.

[MGOWNER1]

tht ugy sounded like a pedofile Hey kids who can tell me what time it is ?! xD annyway im prettysure you used adobe flash 2 or 3

[13fyer]

@soffiethetoffee you will have to click on the audio in the timeline and a menu will pop up at the bottom. there will be a 'Sync:' and it will say 'Event' after it with a drop down icon. click the icon and select the 'Stream' button then it the sound will do what you need it to.

i had the same problem a few years ago

[tomridell]

Great tutorial thanks a lot!

[itsybitsy113]

@helmutlord THAT MAKES EVERYTHING SO MUCH FUCKING EASIER

THANK YOU

[sonicthecoolone]

Thank you!! Figures, I can make a whole website out of flash but when it comes to animated cartoons I'm terrible. This helped so much, thanks!

[thatsupergirl]

Hey helmutlord, love the tutorial, but love the accent more. Just wondering, did you miss out other phoneme mouth positions (like fuuuuuh and lllaaa) for the simplicity of this animation, or do you think those five frames that you made in the video can be used for those sounds aswell?