19 Lip Sync

    • Open your Garageband file and export a mp3 file by going to share>export song to disc

    • Make sure to name it something descriptive like Banquo quote and not a proper naming convention and choose mp3 from the radio buttons. You can save this to your desktop because it is a temporary file but if you want to be super efficient then save it to you Garageband folder in your personal folder that is in the documents.

    • Open the place where you saved your mp3 and drag the file to your library

    • Make sure you are in your scene

    • Clean out anything that is there from previous projects make sure you only have one layer and then click the any frame in the timeline.

    • Go to your properties window and select your quote for sound and make sure that the sync is set to stream

    • Add frames in your timeline until you find the end of the waveform, if you have tomany frames remove any that are not needed.

    • Set your percentage to show frame

    • place your character and resize him/her to a close-up but use the transform window and note the percentage so you will be able to resize the mouth to match. Make sure that if the character looks at all towards one side that you have more space in front of your character.

    • Open the character symbol from your library

    • Zoom into the mouth and select all parts that you think will move if the character opens his/her mouth (hold down Shift to select multiple parts)

    • go to modify convert to symbol and name it Banquo (or whoever's) mouth

    • Delete the mouth from your character

    • Fill in the empty space left from the mouth

    • Open the mouth symbol from your library

    • Go to your percentage and select show in frame and then zoom in to a reasonable size

    • add six frames and then hold down the command key and create a gap for the first three frames and turn on onion skinning

    • Draw an open mouth

    • Return to your scene

    • Create a second layer

    • Place the mouth into this layer and resize to the right size. Make sure that it looks right both when it is open and when it is closed

    • Test your movie by pressing command return

    • there will probably be some areas you need to adjust. Use the command key to slide the positions of your keyframes to make it look right.

    • Once it is right, save

    • open the swivel program and export a .mov from your .swf

    • Create key frames in your timeline for every time you want the mouth to start talking and stop talking. You can use the waveforms for this if you recorded well. it does not have to be perfect because you will be able to adjust it later

    • for each closed mouth you need to select a frame then the mouth and then set your looping to single frame frame 4