Sound: Lip synching
This session will cover how to synchonise sound with your Flash animations.
There are several ways of doing this - the simplest way being to make separate movieClips for each of the basic phoneme groups.
You may find the Preston Blair lip shapes useful:
http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/aim/a_notes/mouth_shapes_01.html
- Before you start, you should find a short mp3 of someone talking - perhaps yourself?
- Make a movieClip of a face and then place it on the stage.
- Make separate movieClips for each of the basic phoneme groups.
- Import your sound into Flash (File:Import:Import to Library...)
- Make a separate layer for your sound - label it.
- With frame 1 of this layer selected, drag your sound from the library, and 'add it' to the stage.
- Notice how a small graphical representation of the sound appears in the layer.
- With frame 1 of this layer selected, go to properties, and make sure the 'Synch' option is set to 'Stream'.
- Scrub the playback head and you should hear a 'broken up' version of your sound - this will help you to synchonise your animation.
- Make a separate layer, and use this to make labels for the different parts of the phrase or sentence you have.
- Make another layer to contain the lips.
- Place the relevant movieClips for each phoneme in this layer, making a new keyFrame for each new shape.
- Play back your masterpiece - it may require tweaking!
