Manual Lip-sync
Harmony allows for the manual swapping of mouth position drawings to match a voice track. For this process, both sound scrubbing (listening to a sound wave broken up frame-by-frame) and drawing substitutions are used.
How to animate lip-sync using the Timeline view
- In the Playback toolbar, enable the Sound Scrubbing
button.
- In the Timeline view, drag the red playhead along the sound layer waveform.
- When you reach a frame where a mouth position should go, for example, an open mouth with rounded lips for an "oh" sound, click on that frame on your mouth shapes layer.
- In the Parameters section, staying on your mouth shapes layer, place your cursor on top of the drawing name (often a letter) until it changes to the swapping
pointer.
- Pull the cursor to see the list of mouth shape names and choose the one you want. The current drawing automatically changes to the new selection.
How to animate lip-sync using the Library view
- In the Playback toolbar, click the Sound Scrubbing button.
- In the Timeline view, drag the red playhead along the waveform of your sound layer.
- When you reach a frame where a mouth position should go, for example, an open mouth with rounded lips for an "oh" sound, click on that frame on your mouth shapes layer.
- In the Drawing Substitution window of the Library view, drag the slider to choose a mouth shape. The current drawing is swapped for the one in the preview window.
