Auto Lip Sync After Effects

With Auto Lip-Sync you can create a mouth that automatically animates according to your voice recording. Automatic Animation Fully automatic movement of the mouth - no need for keyframes Step by Step Wizard The step by step wizard guides you though the process. Lip Sync in After Effects Lip-syncing is something that all animators will be asked to do at some point in their career. The following technique automates the process of lip sync in After Effects and uses only built-in features of Adobe After Effects – no extra software is required!

  • Dec 23, 2013 For creating Facial animations in After Effects, MamoWorld’s Auto Lip-Sync is a great tool to use in anticipation that the audio might change – automatically creating mouth movement from designated audio in After Effects.
  • Jul 08, 2014 The speed of Auto Lip-Sync highly depends on the size of the layer that you apply it to. If its very slow, you probably used a high-res image as your layer, which is huge in terms of After Effects layers.
  • With Auto Lip-Sync you can create a mouth that automatically animates according to your voice recording. Automatic Animation Fully automatic movement of the mouth - no need for keyframes Step by Step Wizard The step by step wizard guides you though the process.

There are many automated ways to create lip sync. Some include After Effects add-ons. Others are meant to be entire animation solutions such as Adobe’s Character Animator.

Ross Plaskow adds to his After Effects cartoon character series with a look at creating lip sync to an animation, taking more of a manual approach.

Taking more of a traditional animation approach, Ross starts out by mapping the phonemes needed to a number scale for reference. There are 8 in total. He then draws out all the phonemes for each by hand.

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The numbers and order of the hand drawn mouths, become important as you will be recalling them from a precomp using the tried and true approach of time remapping.

In the end triggering the custom mouth shapes with manual keyframes looks far more like professional animation, than tracked and automated movements from character animator.

Ross Plaskow has other great tutorials in his character animation series in After Effects. His simple and non technical approach to character animation is refreshing. The tutorials tend to deal with traditional animation far more than automated tools. Be sure to check out the rest on his YouTube Channel.

In a continuation of his charter Lip Sync tutorials for After Effects, David Legion shows how to swap out scratch audio voice overs with other audio tracks using MamoWorld’s Auto Lip Sync Plugin for After Effects.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to switch out the voice over with other audio tracks or even other languages using MamoWorld’s Auto Lip Sync

There are often times when the audio for a certain project will be versioned” or have output in many other languages, and automating the process will become crucial, well for getting the project completed on time. The more you can shave off time of repetitive tasks by workflow hacks, or by automating some processes, the better off you will be. Here David shows how to use MamoWorld’s Auto Lip Sync to assist in the lip sync animation process. Check out the tutorial for Switching Out Voice Over With Auto Lip Sync in After Effects here.