I would like to be able to easily lip-sync to a pre-recorded song. It would make CR5 much more fun to use.

Transparency support for both imported image files, and for output of video. Supporting alpha for imported TGA files, or even PNG, or TIFF, or native Photoshop, or any number of other file formats that support transparency would make life much easier and make the workflow much more efficient for setting up the models. Masking it in your mask editor is like pulling teeth, especially for animals with fur.

Supporting Quicktime output would make outputting video with transparency (alpha) a no-brainer.

Without these two features, your program is never going to be taken seriously by professional video and effects people.

There have been some great Ideas posted already, so I would just like to second a few and maybe add a suggestion or two.

I found these comments to be a great addition to Version 6 of Crazy Talk.

1. Assigning alphabet keys to each phoneme. - I'm not sure if this is what was implied, is so please forgive me...

A)To clean up the lipsync audio it would be a tremendous time saver if we had the option to click the assigned Phoneme in the timeline editor once and be able to just type the desired phoneme.

B) A Double click would open edit panel as it does now.

C) Right click would pop a simple context menu the would let select a phoneme.

2. 3/4th view fitting and 3/4th view lipsync, was also mentioned. Having just a little more flexibility in movement of the characters would help a great deal with the quality and believability of the CT Characters.

Having the character turn further left, right up or down would be such an asset. Even if it was only limited to characters that were brought in CT6 with front and side profiles.

3. Better control of the the Timeline marker - the mouse must be positioned with some precision to avoid 'dragging an area' instead of simply scrubbing the timeline. Was also mentioned. This is a must, simply making the Timeline marker a little bigger would help.

A) The ability to bump the timeline forward or backward with the arrow keys would be great.

4. Not preloading any project, when starting the software. This does gets a little more annoying every time you load the app.

5. Direct editing of Models in your photo edtiting software. It never fails, you create or tweak a character in Photoshop.. Get it set up in Crazy Talk and notice a change you would like to make, you then have to set the character up all over again in Crazy Talk.

6. Layers! Something was also mentioned about layers. I understand and own Iclone for full body characters, However if CT 6 could just give us little more control over the Torso and arms it would take this app to a whole new level.

If CT6 could somehow be tied to Iclone and allow the torso or body to be brought in on an additional layer in the timeline for CT6 would be great.

Thanks for your time / keep coding
VM



The Virtual Broadcasting Network

Thanks to everyone for the great suggestions. Your ideas will all go to making a better Crazytalk. The development team review all the wishful features for possible inclusion in future releases.

Thanks again and keep 'em coming. ;) 

                                                                

Peter
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www.reallusion.com

hi world,

here my dreams about next crazy talk release :

- possibility to import poser 7 characters (kind of 3d object)
- possibility to export the animation in flash (not flv) with backgound alpha (transparency)

For this both features, i could purchase the soft for 100€ more !! you can't imagine the tme i could gain with this !

Hello All! I think one of the biggest improvements that crazy talk need's is to make smother lines like feather if you gonna make eyes or mouth, other thing is that there's no way to make the hole in the mouth transparent, If I need a character that is facing side, I can't make a simple hole in the image when It talks. Other thing is make a tool that can select all the equal phonems for example all the W.OO to modify its general value. Sorry for my english.

You have a lot of great requests here. Especially in Post #10505. Sorry if I repeat any ideas.

-Profile and 45 degree shot
-ability to scrub timeline with sound
-pre-build and save lip-syncing charts for different personalities or reoccurring characters.
-ability to adjust one vowel and it apply to every occurrence on timeline.
-export to series of PNGS (pngs are smaller than TGA)
-choice of different phoneme engines.
-ability to create exaggerated morphs. Like very expressive, cartoonish expressions.
-ad "eyelids" to the advanced facial settings tab. Sometimes eyelids get stretched too much. It would be nice to be able to tweak this some.
-export screen in full resolution to single image.

Bottome line: Give us a killer, powerful timeline so those who want to can tweak all they want.

There's a little phoneme program called Papagayo. Check it out. It's simple but gives you complete control over how phonemes are broken down.

I love Crazytalk and can't wait for Crazytalk 6.

That's my number 1 wish, too: multiple heads :P that would be very cool.

Maybe a less crazy, just "normal" windows interface. Otherwise I am actually very pleased with the features of crazytalk.



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Taking and building on the text input concept of Papagayo, it would be a great idea to have an auto text drop down menu for anticipated text input, a dictionary for spell checking that automaticly saves every word entry for future retreaval and application.:w00t:

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yeah, in at least 10 different northern european languages and compatibility with other than microsoft and cepstral voices ;) or auto-text making :w00t:



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