What do you recommend, Kelley-Toons, as far as the order of things between the lip-sync itself (with the Papagayo, of course) and the mocap? 

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What I always do is to get the lip sync right first.  If you try and apply body mocap you can't see the face clearly (you could, in theory, set up a face facing camera but that's a PITA).  Get it looking exactly the way you want, and then apply motion.

Now, you don't mean mocap, I don't think, because you don't have a system.  I think you mean manually making the body motions.  But even if you did have a mocap system the procedure is the same.  I actually go ahead and mocap to the audio track (so for the one I supplied you I just looped the audio, albeit slowed down 200%, and performed.  Then I speeded up the mocap by 100%).  But always face first, then body.

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Got it.  Thank you, Kelley-Toons. :-)

We won't be able to make all 34 episodes in a reasonable amount of production time without mocap.  

So in this post, I am trying to put together a very close figuring in my head on how this production would go with mocap. 

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How would I have two people talking and sometimes interrupting each other?  I don't see how I could use only one voice file for this.  Am I missing something?  The Bible project ( which sounds great by the way) made me wonder about this.

For each character you need a separate voice file. In other words, they are independent of each other.

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And you should be finalizing your audio in your Video editing program where it will be quite easy to have people's voice tracks interrupting or even talking over one another depending on the narrative and your camera cuts of course.

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Kimmie,

What we would do for our Fox show is to record the dialog for all folks at the same time, so they could talk back and forth (and interrupt).  Then we would cut it up afterwards and create the separate tracks, as others have suggested using our audio program.  

For facial mocap nowadays I do two different sessions, although one day I hope to have another iPhone X (perhaps the XR) to do both at the same time (normally even in the most dialog intensive shows you usually only have two people talking at the same time.  The exceptions can be handled).

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Can we have multiple voice files in IClone or would you "splice" them into one file?  

Each character can have their own voice file (AND you can have an overall sound file for the project).

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Kelley-Toons: By an overall sound file, do you mean pasting more than one voice file into the timeline to create one overall sound file for a back and forth audio piece?

Or do you mean overall sound file as in background music or other background sounds in addition to the voice files? 

I saw a video tutorial (I think it was by War-Lord) where he put a sound file into a 'box' in the scene.  I have been looking forward to trying that. 

We are obviously going to be needing to create some sound files for this project as well. 

For example, there are 2 separate occasions where JESUS knocks over the tables of the merchants at the Temple (because those guys just didn't learn the 1st time :-D ). 

But there will be speaking as well during those times from the Gospel book writers together with the sounds of coins flying and landing on the ground. 

Another example: The Sea of Galilee will have water wave sounds - and on one occasion very strong winds with that,while the waves knock against their boat.  And multiple people will be speaking in the storm scene.  

I am very intrigued at how all of these things will be done - and also without 'running over' the voices speaking. 

All thoughts on this you guys, please and thank you! :-)

~ Kimmie



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