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PC Plus Reviews Crazytalk 5

Peter Edwards — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:14:17 GMT

PC Plus magazine (UK) recently reviewed Crazytalk 5. They even gave it a PC Plus Value Award. If you would like to read the review just click the link below.

PC Plus Magazine Review

Lost CT5 Download...

mike — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:58:23 GMT

I've just bought and downloaded the Facial Expressions package 2, and then rather cleverly managed to clear out CT5. And of course, being doubly clever (Not), I didn't have a back up of the download of CT5 (although I do have the patch still. Amazing!). I have emailed support, but I'm rather desperate to finish a movie for showing at the club next week - so expedition of being able to download again would be appreciated.I have a purchase number from Element 5 and a serial number for CT5 of course.Apologies for being a bit dumb. Put it down to senility (77 next week...).

Can I Upgrade from CTv3.x Web to CTv4.x?

menezes1 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:11:51 GMT

I would like to upgrade from v3.5 to either v4.5 or v4.6... I run under W2K-Pro (NTFS). Unfortunately, v5.x is only for XP/Vista.My apps for web and/or gifs. Any input is appreciated?TksAlex

CrazyTalk 4.x Custom Content to 5.x

ina.centaur — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:04:13 GMT

Hi, I just bought CT5 but am having difficulty converting my custom content in CT4 to CT5. I have tried the [url=http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/ct_tool.asp]ct_tool[/url], but I do not see my CT4 custom content in CT5 custom .... Please help!

Crazy Talk in Animation

tihs1313 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:55:11 GMT

Hello, Was wondering if it was possible to use Crazy Talk with figures that are moving in an animation or it only for still images. I want to use it to lip sync animated characters faces as they walk.I could animate the face in a green screen still capture of the face only and then motion track the face to the character in After Effects but I saw a demo movie on your site that showed lip sync in an animation (The Binary Picture Show) and thought maybe there was a built in way to do it. Thank

Background music CrazyTalk 5 pro

ru124a — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:05:11 GMT

Himy selected background music is stereo but once i bring it in to crazytalk 5 pro in monois this right ?background music is mono only ?

CrazyTalk 5 SFX issue

wgdepot — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:56:44 GMT

I tried adding sunglasses to my project and I select it, preview it, and click ok... it acts like its gonna add it (I can see the SFX marker appear in the timeline) and then it disappears and no SFX shows up. Am I doing something wrong here? Its CrazyTalk5

Where are Calibration script ?

davidjosue007 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:12:50 GMT

Where can I get different scripts used in the user interface Crazy Talk 5 Pro for calibration (Eye-lid movement, head movement...calibration all)[img]http://www.hebergementimages.com/images/1214463592_ct5screenshot.jpg[/img]

In Crazy Talk 5.0, can one import text to be read out, or only sound files?

svarup2005 — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:50:02 GMT

I've just purchased Crazy Talk 5.0, and have a text file (MS Word) which I want to import and have a character read. Can this be done? Or does one have to import a sound file i.e. in which there is already a voice which has recorded the text?I understand there is TTS (Text to Speech) technology in Crazy Talk 5.0. Where in the software is that located? I have already purchased several computer-generated voices to use in Crazy Talk 5.0, but I need to know how to access the TTS window in order to import my text.

Text to speech fails to activate in Vista

timdpus — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:47:55 GMT

I'm about to purchase CrazyTalk standard and I have one last question.Everything in the trail program works great until I try to import a text script to be read by my character.When I click on the T in the script screen, I immediately get a failure.The error says the program has encountered an error it cannot resolve and the program will be closed. The only option at that time is to click 'ok' and let the program close completely.Help! Is this something to do with the trial version or do I have another kind of problem?Again, any help will be most greatly appreciated.Thanks ahead of time.Tim :)

Can you doCan you do puppeteering with the basic version of CrazyTalk?

timdpus — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:05:26 GMT

I notice in the full-featured matrix the basic version of CrazyTalk does not appear to have the timeline editing features that the Pro version does in puppeteering.I understand that means you can not use the solo feature. But does that mean that you cannot manipulate the models as it shows in the puppeteering demonstration?Thank you very much ahead of time for any assistance offered.Have a great day.

Crazy Talk for live performance?

a.rothman — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:40:20 GMT

I'm helping to plan a community theater performance of 'The Wizard of Oz' and I was thinking it might be slick to digitally create the head of 'Oz' using Crazy Talk and project it on a wall. I know I could pre-record the actor's lines and animate the head to match it easily enough, but is there any way to do a 'live playback' where the head sits in "at rest" mode until the next dialogue clip is triggered by a keystroke or something? It'd be nice to be able to play each of the digital puppet's lines back manually instead of rendering it all and trying to get the pacing right with the live actors...

Lip sync component third party

davidjosue007 — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:12:35 GMT

In the Preference Settings, the following dialog box is displayed:[img]http://www.hebergementimages.com/images/1212220817_crazytalkpreferencepanel.jpg[/img]in the CT4 help, it is written:[b]Lipsync Component:[/b] This function allows you to assign other Lipsync solutions by installing 3rd party lipsync plug-in. Question: What are these other Lipsync solutions or third party lipsync plug-in?I used to use DAZ|Mimic Lip-Sync for animation, is it possible to include this application in Crazy Talk ?

CT 5 vs CT 4

ina.centaur — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:24:31 GMT

I'm considering upgrading to 5, but this is for a low budget indie... Does CT5 have improvements in facetrix - can someone post a version comparing something made with CT4 to its component in CT5?I tried the demo/beta several months ago, but found that CT5's puppeteering seems to be buggy. http://youtube.com/watch?v=aJpsqlx8jNQ

animate more than one puppet

ferrarielly — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:24:16 GMT

Hi,I have an image with 3,4 puppets and I need to animate all their mouths...Is that possibile with this software?How?If not, is there any other software that can do that?ThanxElly

facial motion capture software

stuckon3d — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:39:58 GMT

Hello reallusion,
you guys should talk to this software company ( http://www.zigncreations.com/zigntrack.html ) and have them make a version of their software to work with Crazy talk, I think it would take your software to a whole new level and it will make Iclone 3 rock beyond everyones expectations. Just a suggestion. :D

Chang color of frame?

johnlayson125 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:20:52 GMT

Is there a way to change the color of the frame in CT?

Lesson in Anatomy

invisiblescaper — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:46:13 GMT

(I'm prefacing this because upon reading over it a few times, it sounds like I'm talking down to you. I really don't mean to, but I've always had a problem with people thinking I'm being more rude than I intend. It's because they're whiny babies and can't keep their pwecious widdo feewings out of the way for five seconds. You seem smarter than this. Also, I was just using the demo. I do hope that in the version for which people pay a lot of money for your expensive program, you've already taken care of it.)I find it hard to believe that in 5 releases of this program, no one has corrected this. I've included images since my ability to clearly describe things is severly lacking. Here is an unfolded representation of a human eye (it's for a program that uses this for both eyes so the mucus membrane is inaccurately on both sides). I'll accept not calling the whites of the eyes "sclera;" giving you the benefit of the doubt that you'd know that, not everybody does.[img]http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc208/Bigfurtz/Eye1.png[/img]The next image highlights what you have called the pupil. As everybody has learned in . . . I'll say third grade, but for me it was around first grade or kindergarten, this is the iris.[img]http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc208/Bigfurtz/Iris.png[/img]THIS is the pupil.[IMG]http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc208/Bigfurtz/Pupil.png[/IMG]Unlike the iris, the color cannot be changed. It is a hole in the center of the iris muscle that allows light to hit the retina. The iris expands and contracts in relation or darkness or brightness (respectively) to allow in enough light so the optic nerve can pick it up but no so much that it burns it out. Personally, no matter how innovative and fun this program is, I would not pay even $20 to have to see this mistake every time I mess with the eyes (pet peeve, you see. Also I'm really cheap). That being said, CrazyTalk is totes fun. Thanks for all the hard work you've put into it!

FLV Version

stargazer424 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:37:19 GMT

What version(s) of flv does CrazyTalk 5 Pro export to? I use CrazyTalk 4.6 and convert my exported avi's to flv. However, I need to exort to both FLV 7 and 8.

Where are the customized projects??

bry333 — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:45:19 GMT

I still have the old harddrive and it is still good. So I can go to any folderon it. It is used as a storage drive now although I haven't cleaned it yet.So I reinstalled CT with patch on my new larger drive (C drive). I thoughtI could easily find the customizations I have created but can't find where theyare. Which folder are my projects in???Help please!! I looked in the program folder of course. There weren't there ina format I recognized. I didn't have the patch installed on the previous install.Will I be able to bring over the projects into CT on new drive (with patch installed??)Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CT 5 animation and voices are rubbish

magnafortis — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:13:31 GMT

I have just purchased CT5It seems this programme is very limited, yet I can only upgrade to CT5pro if I have an older version of CT than 5, or pay a non discounted price.Am I right in thinking the edit key button is not available on CT5, because I cant find it?I can use emotives, but puppeterring makes no changes at all.Voices are limited and robotic. Ive downloaded from my home page, but they too are not very pleasing on the ear. I did manage to download a couple of voices, but in the script the voices add in "please register this product" and I cant work out how to, or to purchase a licence. Ive used the templates, but cant find a way to alter their text so they are not really any use.This would be a potentially good product, if it did everything it claims. The tutorials are dire however and I hate the way it tells you to calibrate movement, but wont tell you how, making it a pretty useless piece of software.

Live Crazy Talk

ian — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:09:19 GMT

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to have Crazy Talk live. The situation is where a presenter would interact with the character displayed on eth screen. So there would be a second person with a mic attached to the computer out of sight and answering questions. As they talk into the mic the character would lip sync. So this is not prerecorded but really live.Is that possible?

Crazytalk 5 Review @ GetConnectedTV

Peter Edwards — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:03:41 GMT

GetConnectedTV recently reviewed Crazytalk 5.0 and had a lot of fun with it. :)

Take a look at the video below.

[flashvideo]http://www.youtube.com/v/i1Z4DAyCZTA[/flashvideo]

Crazytalk 5.1 Patch Released

Peter Edwards — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:12:32 GMT

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Crazytalk 5.1 Patch Released.

A new patch is available to bring your version of Crazytalk 5.0 up to 5.1

The contents of the patch are:

What's New
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v5.1
- Fixed: Cannot launch CrazyTalk in some special conditions.
- Fixed: Program crashes while Model page is clicked in some special conditions
- Removed: TWAIN device input function
- Added: Live Update function

You can find the patch from the link below or your Premium Members page.

http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/ct_upgrade.asp

ct5 vs ct5-PRO

bingbong23 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:35:18 GMT

hello, i am new to crazy talk. i just discovered it the other day. i download the demo and have been messing around with it. i wanted to know for a causal user that wants to create cool animated photos is the ct5 standard version ok to use. i have looked at the feature matrix. but could you explain at least a little of what features in the standard i wont be getting. (ex, can i move eyes, mouth, facial expression, etc. or will the photo be very static in appearance.)

i understand about the sfx part(ballons, text, etc). i wanted more info on the editing functions i will not get. the breif description on the feature matrix was is very short

thank you in advance.

Todd

Source of FlashSwf.swf?

kaikretschmann — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:06:02 GMT

I would like to change the play and stop buttons in the generated flash/html output. The buttons should fade away and come back by mouse entering the movie area. I could make this adaption myself but would like to use the existing player as a start.

Or are there any hidden parameters to the existing flash player I could use?

Anchorman... Is there an anchorwoman?

rdudley — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:18:04 GMT

I am working on a project and I need a female verion of the Crazytalk ANCHORMAN. That sort of 3-D cartoony look. First of all, where did the Anchorman come from, and does anyone know of other characters in a similar style?

Using both Iclone and CT together

mizzy — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:58:32 GMT

I want to know exactly how someone would use CT to make their characters talk if it they are part of an iclone movie. Do I build an iclone movie, then bring it into CT and make it lip sync? Or do I have to export an image (via Iclone) into CT and export that as an avi file. I looked at one tutorial, but I am still a little unclear as to what I can do and not do.
Any enlightening would be much appreciated!!

Point fitting advice needed

toyguy — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:09:15 GMT

I want to use an image for my avatar that looks something like a T-Rex - a long snouted head with the eyes nearly on the sides. I'd like to be able to animate this both when looking straight at it, and when it is looking somewhat away from the viewer, so only one eye is visible.

Is it possible to delete sets of fitting points if they are not needed? Is there any way to add more fitting points to the wireframe for fitting more closely to compound head shapes?

Thanks!

help opening crazy talk 5 pro

venture88 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:10:20 GMT

Hi there,

I have just purchased, downloaded and installed crazy talk 5. I also register it to my name. The first time I used it things were great. Now when I click on the desktop icon to open the program nothing happens. I have reboot the computer many times and tried to locate it on the c drive. Can anyone help please? Many thanks.

render stills?

BeruPly — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:20:18 GMT

tried but failed to find an option for rendering of still frames in high resolution, like iClone can do. Is it possible or a missing feature?

thanks for input!

Questions about automation of tasks in Crazytalk.

bob — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:40:03 GMT

I am interested in automating tasks in CrazyTalk. For example to have a new audio file substituted and a standard CrazyTalk project render a new file. Is there a command line interface for CrazyTalk? Can you use a script file to control CrazyTalk in a batch mode?

Thanks,

Bob

Crazytalk 5 Puppeteering

Peter Edwards — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:22:49 GMT

Comments are always welcome. :)

Editing Custom Supplied Voices

admin_13 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:19:48 GMT

Does anyone know if its possible to edit the "custom voices" that come with the program to say things other than their current dialogues?

Example: Ask for a date.

Merry Christmas.

New Year.

Child.

Can we use these voices but edit the words and keep the voice quality in tact?

How can I do that please.

Or do you have to buy extra voices etc. I've downloaded a couple from Microsoft for free but they sound too mechanical.

Little movement while puppets are speaking.

admin_13 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:52:57 GMT

I'm having a problem with my puppets in that they move fine before and after each speech but not during the actual speech time line. All the other movements basically stop then except for the actual speech taking place.

Does anyone have a fix for this problem please?

Adjust Lip Sync Expressiveness over all

jennifer.carter — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:27:29 GMT

Is there a way to adjust the lip expressiveness for all the "words" in a file. I have a 2 minute clip that my client wants more lip expression. Instead of having to manually go in and adjust each word, is there a way I can increase the expressiveness for the entire clip?

UPGRADE

nightcourt61 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:54:28 GMT

My cam as i posted before is a creative webcam. Which came with Crazy Talk 4. In order to use the timeline feature it says to upgrade. Do i need to purchase the Pro edition or just Crazy Talk 5. Thanks

Update Photo

jennifer.carter — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:56:35 GMT

I have a Crazy Talk file that I need to update the photo. The photo has changes slightly and should not effect the anchor points. Is there any way to keep the anchor points but update the photo. I am trying not to redo all the anchor points in a project.

How to removie audio

salliem — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:21:00 GMT

I am making a movie with 2 characters singing a duet, and I have done each one seperately in CT. I faded out the voice I didn't need on each one, so that they would only sing when they were suppose to. I then imported them into Magix Movie Pro and attached to a movie I made with the song they were singing, so that I could have background images changing behind them. I used the green box effect to add the CT characters into this movie. Everything worked fine except for the sound, some parts are louder than others and I am thinking this is because when I saved the CT characters the audio goes with it, and when added on top of the song in the animation I am adding them to, is probably causeing this. So is there a way to remove the extra audio in Magix, or is it possible to export only the Character in CT with the puppeteering and lipsync without the audio? I hope this makes sense! lol Thanks

Looking for a great piece of Crazy Talk.

gizmo — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:36:06 GMT

Hi. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but I recently saw a You Tube video which primarily used Crazy Talk and possibly iClone as well in its construction. It was a brilliant piece in which several characters and objects recited a (famous) poem.

Can anyone help me locate it - I've forgotten the title and the crafted authors name.