I ended up buying it (as always - I also have Faceware and Live Face so it's not exactly as if I NEEDED this).  

While I haven't used it a lot I will say I see a LOT of value in using it with video.  Just for fun I recorded myself using my iPhone (at 1080p, the lowest res on my phone) on the tennis court bench, handholding, and when I got the video home I stabilized it (with Premiere - took all of 20 seconds) and using this video (with just the sun for lighting - nothing special) it worked fantastic.  So in that regard it's a bit like having the ability to do animation on the go, anywhere and anywhen.  In the past (using 2D animation software) I recorded folks voices wherever they lived - now I can see doing the same thing with just my phone.

For stability (someone above mentioned eye fluttering) you can turn off or down the sensitivity.  Do I like it as much as Live Face?  No,  but not everyone has an iPhone (and, yes, not everyone has the right NVidia card but for those folks who do I can't see why they wouldn't want this).  It's a TON better than Faceware (which isn't even installed on my machine anymore).  Faceware was WAY too sensitive to lighting and my wearing  of glasses - honestly, Accuface doesn't care about my glasses and lighting isn't an issue as long as you have enough (just better to have a lot - like I said, outdoors it worked great.  Indoors I have a very bright office if I turn on the lights - I normally work in the dark).  It does better at facial animation than Live Face (for example it will do asymmetrical eyebrows, which Live Face does not) and it's a LOT more convenient to get setup and use (Live Face is always a bit complicated no matter how you connect).

So anyone without a facial animation solution that has the right video card would be foolish NOT to have this.  Others can make up their own mind (I'm glad I got it - I wished within a few months I hadn't bought Faceware but that's a whole other story).

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

I appreciate all the reviews and thoughts.  $250 is a lot of dough and hearing the varied experiences is very helpful.

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I did some more testing, and for me the most useful application would be going from video to facial animation. Even then, the video has to be of high quality. The issues are similar to what I had with FaceWare: face scanning is a bit finicky. I have LifeFACE as well and the scanning of the iPhone as not as susceptible to low lighting conditions and presence of facial hair. It just works better for me.

Since I don't do my own voice-overs (wrong accent), the only application would indeed be to go from video to facial animation for any voice actors I might use in the future. Right now I can not justify the expense.

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Was finally able to test AccuFace. I envy those getting good results. I took in the Motion Live/AccuFace webinar. Really appreciated the presenter teaching. Too often in video tuts, the narrator flies around with the mouse cursor so fast viewers miss what was selected, and what it does. This presenter had teacher genes in his DNA. Well paced, and fairly methodical, such a pleasant reprieve from the usual, where some folks seem more intent on showing how smart or skilled they are rather than actually teaching. In my results, as yet, I don't get the smooth mimicking I see users here getting. I'm assuming I need further practice. However, I noticed something that I also saw in the webinar . The right eye of the avatar, winks, if you can call it that. The same happens to me, despite various manipulations I've tried to prevent it. Anyone else experiences this and has a solution for it?


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Sophisticated test, but, if, possible, in the left window, I would like to see the body move with the helmeted face, just like it would be in reality.


My latest movie THE GOLDEN MAN, and a few others: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIl1EqVCKitZzLqaNnLK0BA

Another test with footage of a helmet cam (no cleanup) :  

Never got a direct answer to some questions I asked about AccuFace. But via trial and error, and off-forum sources, I got it to work. Now, I've whined about what was wrong, so it's only fair to tell what was right. First, I FINALLY relocated the RTX reply to another customer I'd seen here previously. Regarding the NVIDIA RTX series. Got that done. Located the RL online tutorial, the one I REALLY needed. Not just the Youtube only video series. In case you wonder which "tut" that was, here: https://manual.reallusion.com/Motion_LIVE_Plugin/Content/Motion_LIVE/AccuFACE/AccuFACE-User-Interface.htm

In my case, this tutorial value is being partially text based. Great for Deaf artists, because Youtube tuts often whiz around the mouse cursor so fast, you can't see what they are doing, and talking about at the same time. I don't expect anyone who's not Deaf or works with the Deaf to fully understand this. But the tutorial link above helped a great deal. Will now return to studying it and applying what I learn.

Related Commentary: My laptop by necessity is placed off-center, and paired with a 32" LG monitor. So I needed a webcam mounted to the monitor, located directly in front of me. My decades old Philip webcam proved to inadequate. I had read somewhere that AccuFace didn't work well with portable webcams. After wading through possible options that didn't cost $200+, yep, that right, a few went as high as $400. For a webcam?? Absurd! I settled for a LogiTech BRIO 595. AccuFace  works well with it. Now, interested post readers, don't rush out and get it. It's not perfect on all accounts, so read reviews, especially by actual; users, such those on Amazon. I suspect it works as well as it does due to using the USB-C port.


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Peter
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Maybe try XMedia Recode and convert your video files. It has a portable installer and doesn't install crappy codec packs.