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animagic
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animagic
Posted 5 Years Ago
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TimothyMasters (9/14/2021)
The takes that I exported to iClone are still there, but their versions in the Replica project are all grayed out, so I can never go back and tweak them if I want, or redo them if they improve the voice quality. And somehow the dialog must be internally embedded into the iClone project, because they do not exist as separate WAV files that I could go back and add reverb to or tweak the tone curve. But now I don't know what to do. My work on this project has ground to a halt. Do I find a different voice and laboriously replace every instance of him talking? Or do I give up on it and come up with a new project? Sigh. I think I'll just go have a beer.
You can render out the wave file in iClone (select Render/Video/.Wav) and then do whatever you need to do.
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TimothyMasters
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TimothyMasters
Posted 5 Years Ago
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I got good news this morning. Replica says they were able to renew 'Jack's contract, so his voice is now back for the use of myself and others. I wonder what they had to pay the guy?
And they promised that they would revise their contract situation to make this less likely to happen in the future.
Good! Users really need to have confidence that their chosen voice will stick around for at least the duration of project development, and ideally beyond to allow later tweaks.
I'm amazed at the varied quality of their voices, and my hope is they will continue to improve rapidly.
Some of the voices I get from Replica are amazing, so close to real that most people would be unable to tell that they were computer generated.
Then others are so bad that even an hour of tweaking fails to make them usable.
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animagic
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animagic
Posted 5 Years Ago
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I'm glad it got sorted out. Peculiar situation though. It is like doing a feature film and your star suddenly runs off...:unsure:
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kungphu
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TimothyMasters (9/14/2021)
There's a great irony here. I have had tremendous success using Fiver to voice my videos. I've gotten some truly excellent character acting at very reasonable prices. But I had a project before my current one, with three scenes completed, and when I was ready to send out for voicing my fourth scene I found to my dismay that my lead male actor had quite Fiverr and was no longer doing voice work! So I decided to quit using Fiverr due to that problem that I had not foreseen. I decided to use Replica Studios instead, even though the voice quality was not nearly as good as real humans. At least nobody would quit mid-project. And now this. Sheesh. Who knew.
Sounds like you’re snake bit! :) Glad you got lucky and the voice is back! Very much like Ani mentioned. It’s like your lead left the set, up and quit! Best of luck! May I suggest getting all his scenes done first? You know…. Just in case. Ha!
My "NEWEST" Latest:) Movie Made With Amaaaazing iClone
—> High Noon”ish” in Narrow Valley<—
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sungod
Posted 4 Years Ago
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animagic (9/15/2021)
I'm glad it got sorted out. Peculiar situation though. It is like doing a feature film and your star suddenly runs off...:unsure:Main reason to use voice AI becomes useless if this can happen. There should be 100 percent certain that voice is available always. We need a Desktop version with better pricing . This per min pricing is exactly opposite of what Iclone perpetual license is all about.
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aaroberts
Posted 3 Years Ago
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The same thing has happened to me!!! If we don't get a work around I am absolutely done with this product. We are totally being screwed!!!
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aaroberts
Posted 3 Years Ago
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Hi Tim,
Can you tell me how and who you contacted at Replica studios. They did the same thing with me and the voice character Sean. I need to find out if I'm done with this product or not.
thanks,
Arthur
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TimothyMasters
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TimothyMasters
Posted 3 Years Ago
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I didn't contact them first. Apparently someone there saw my post (they probably monitor this forum) and they contacted me. Then I had an email address for contact and followed up. I've long forgotten the email. Replica has improved a lot since then, but I still hate that some of their modification options are worthless. Many of the voices speak much to quickly for them to be easily understood, so I want to slow them. But if I use the speed option even a little bit, the sound quality plunges. It's been several years, and this bug is still not fixed. They keep adding new voices, when what I really want them to do is fix their existing voices. Lately I've been using iMyFone VoxBox. They have a much larger selection of voices, and their modification options actually work. I still use Replica occasionally because they do have some unique voices.
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animagic
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animagic
Posted 3 Years Ago
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I follow Replica's Discord, which is where they post their announcements. Many of the older voices are being retired, which is problematic if you have a longer running production. And, even with the newer voices I find the sound quality often disappointing. I have moved to Eleven Labs and are quite pleased with them.
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