I have just installed the Beta Software and am getting my first insights into the powers of the new Puppeteering Panel. I'd find it a HUGE, HUGE help if it was possible to start and stop the Puppeteering Previews by clicking something on screen (maybe the Button marked "Space") rather than having to reach for the keyboard which is awkward and disruptive for me.

When I posted my initial comment, I had only just started looking at the application and was still in a very CT4 mindset of pains-takingly generating animations by copying and pasting at an individual keyframe level.

The first audio file I tested was rather too brief (6 seconds) and bland (just a spoken remark) for me to appreciate the AMAZING DYNAMISM the puppeteering offers.

I've since imported a longer song and - already - with only THREE passes (!!!) of real-time improvisation the result is striking ! I'm SOOOOOO impressed with how the eyes and blinking can now be managed.....this is soooooo much fun and I've only just begun to find the features !

I wonder if you could answer my question about the audio.

I have imported a "Voice Track" of my very bad singing for the computer to analyse and create the mouth shapes on the "Lips Track". Although I can't SEE it on the Timeline, in this version of the program, I have also brought in the original song with full music and the original (talented and in-tune) vocalist. I would like to be able to perform all my animation preparations and export the final result using just THAT "proper" piece of music and not my weak effort.

Is it possible to MUTE me and just listen to the "Audio Background" ?

I wondered if I might be able to eliminate my vocal by cutting and pasting the full phoneme line into a fresh, new, empty Project but the data didn't stay on the Clipboard when I tried that....

Thanks for responding. It isn't the Background Audio that I want to mute. The Background Audio is the track with the GOOD QUALITY song on it that I want to retain and have my character appear to be singing.

The track I DO want to silence is the top line, the VOICE TRACK that has MY horrific caterwauling on it that I needed to input to generate the phonemes. It would be EXTREMELY useful to be able to keep that waveform information **on view** within the project, to assist with timings, but I don't want to have to listen to it OR export its sound.

I know I can export everything and then tidy it up in an exterior video editor (as I have done in the past) but it would be very welcome for me to be able to export something that is COMPLETE from Crazy Talk - rather than ALWAYS having to post-produce with additional software.

I never get to see how good your array of export formats are when I have to finish my animations in another program.