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