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The first step to the recording process

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is understanding and working with audio.

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So recording and editing is

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different in character animator.

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Essentially, you're going to need to take at least

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three different takes or passes on your animations.

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So the first pass is going to be audio,

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the second is probably going to be your face

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gestures, things like eyes and head tilts, and the

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third pass will be your triggers.

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With that in mind, since we're going to talk about

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audio in this video, we're going to bring in a

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puppet that has a little bit more of an advanced

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mouth with the vazims, the mouth shapes that you might

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want to use for your puppet.

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So we're going to basically swap out magnus here.

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So what I'm going to do is go ahead and

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import from the project files rob rigged and ready and

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it's a little different than the Rob source puppet.

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It's Rob with all of the coolness

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that you might want to add.

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So the dangles are in there.

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Yeah, we can go ahead and zap magnus,

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turn him off, make sure Rob is armed.

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Okay, so you've got two options when it comes to

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that first recording pass, and that is you could either

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bring in some prebuilt or recorded audio from a dedicated

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sound design app like adobe Audition where you could clean

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it up and apply effects and do all that, and

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I would strongly recommend you do that.

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So the workflow for that would be to go ahead

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and export that right from audition as a wave file

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or mp3 and then import it into character animator.

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So if I go to, hey, there people from the project files

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you can see, we can add audio files to the project.

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And if I drag that on top of Rob, the

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way that we work with pre made audio is to

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simply select the audio track and go to timeline and

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go to compute lip sync take from scene audio.

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That's a mouthful, but when you click

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that it's going to autogenerate the vazims.

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Now these are going to be inaccurate. Okay.

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They're about 70% accurate. Okay.

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So that means you're going to have to do

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some cleanup and you could wait and do that

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at the very end if you prefer.

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But I'd kind of like to take

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these as one step at a time.

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So do all the audio edits, do all

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the face edits, do all the trigger edits,

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but it's a personal preference thing.

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So if I did want to clean this up, a

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little bit of sort of a pro tip will be

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to rather than playing back in real time with the

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space bar, there are people that's pretty fast and it's

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kind of hard to see where everything comes in.

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They've got a nice option here where

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you see the one times text there.

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You can actually make it playback slower so that

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it's going to sound weird, but you're going to

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actually be able to retime things a lot better.

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So if I play it back, okay, I can still make

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out the different sounds, and I can probably retime this better.

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So for starters, I could tell that,

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hey, neither of these is probably accurate.

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So notice that these are all the

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Vazims I've got to work with.

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Some have shut off screen here a

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little bit, but there's no H, right?

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There's A.

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But you might want to try something

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that at least changes the mouth shape.

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So there are times when you're kind of looking for

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one that might just at least generate something different.

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Okay, so maybe I'll start with the shape I

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make when I say D and then A.

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And then there's like a th.

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All right.

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The R is correct, so there but I

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need this to be more of a th.

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So a nice keyboard shortcut is if you've got your

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edit line somewhere and you want to split it.

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On a Mac, it's Command Shift D.

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On a PC, it's Control shift D.

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And you can see that that split that up.

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So down at the bottom, I've got L

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here, and L and th make the same

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sort of mouse shape that funny shape, right?

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All right, now the people

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is actually right here, right?

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And the O is not correct.

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So I'm going to actually hit Delete, and you can see that

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it moves the L to the very end, and that's good, but

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it still feels like it needs the P poll, right?

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So let's give this again.

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Maybe we'll cut it where we can

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get something akin to a P sound.

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So up here you can see that M is both B and P.

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All right.

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For the mouth shape.

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So if I play that, it's getting pretty close.

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So you're going to need to do a little bit sort of

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sound design or mouth design for all of your audio cakes.

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Now, the other option you have is to just

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grip it and rip it inside of Character animator.

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And what I mean is to actually

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record straight up inside of the app.

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Before I hit record, I should pay attention to all

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of the other things I have armed for record.

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And because I want to break this into

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parts, I really don't want to have eye

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gaze or dragger or the face movements.

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I just want to focus on the audio and the mouth. Okay.

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So I've disarmed any behaviors I don't want to

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record, including things like triggers, only the lip sync.

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Okay, so here we go.

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Rock and Rob here.

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Okay.

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And you can see Rock and Rob here.

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Again, I would want to go in there and

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change some of the Vizims because it starts with

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an R sound and it comes much later.

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So there'd be some cleanup to do. Right.

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So that would be a raw aww, maybe

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an A sound that maybe that's fine.

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Right?

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And this takes, you know, a little bit

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of a little bit of work in practice.

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rocking rough here.

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Not bad.

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So that is how you can record audio or

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import audio and generate mouth shapes in character.

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animator.