Lip-Syncing in After Effects: Best Practices 

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If you use this as the first line of the expression, you don't have to manually change the layer number each time:
 layerNum = index - parent.index;

 You just have to make sure the controller stays directly above the mouth layers.

This is *so much better*, thank you!

I don't do a lot of character animation these days, but I love this tip so much I'm inclined to dive back in and try it!

Nice, professional, plugin free, and easy way to make lip sync in AE! 👏👏

I bumped into this exact problem when animating my thesis film, and came up with a simular fix. Good you made a tutorial for futur animators!

Wow Ross is back! I started in Ae world because I saw your tutorial of character animation 6 years ago. Thanks for all Ross!

YEAAAH ROSS IS BACK

Great video as always! Thanks Ross.

TY FOR THE TUTORIAL!! this is like, one of the very few times I've been practicing with after effects and this was super easy to follow!!

Elegant and simple, nice! Thanks!

Perfect! Thank you so much.

Thanks Ross... This is good to know. Almost the same as cutting with Time Remapping but this gives one the option of fine tuning by animating the mouths.

dude i used to love your short story videos. i hope you make some

perfect tutorial👏👏

Nice. And if you need one shape to be on two layers you can just assign the same layernum to them both.

Its great!

We better see you sooner than another few years. Just watched meat mysteries and realised you posted new vids!!

And you can also add this lines of code to be able to use slider control else if(control >= layerNum && control < layerNum + 1) {value = 100;} So the final rusult is: layerNum = 1 control = comp("compname").layer("layername").effect("Slider Control")("Slider"); if(control == layerNum) {value = 100;} else if(control >= layerNum && control < layerNum + 1) {value = 100;} else {value = 0;}

So nice! Thank you very much ^-^

Thank you!

Thank You!

Missing this guy ❤

WOOOOOWWWWW THAAANK YOUUUUUUU I LOVE YOUUUUU

Hola, si a éste tutorial llegó un hispanohablante y le marca error en la expresión, es porque tienes el After en español. Así las cosas, el código quedaría layerNum = 1 control = comp("nombre de la composición").layer("lnombre de la capa").effect("Control del deslizador")("Deslizador"); if(control == layerNum) {value = 100;} else {value = 0;} Thank you very much Ross Plasskow.

A Gem!

Works great if you have a single character to lip sync with, what if you have multiple characters using the same lip composition? would you have to change the composition name for each character? It seems more stressful tho, except i don't totally understand. I'll be glad if you can throw more light. @Ross

That's all great but what does it have to do with dinosaurs in space?

I'm doing the walk of shame back to this video because I figured time remapping wouldn't give me any glitches for my project. Now it did and I'm going what I should have done in the first place

help : when I move the head with puppet tools, than the mouth characters don't follow the head movements. (Mouth is parenting with the Head). How to solve that?

Nice

Gracias :B

i have a problem, the slider hav decimals and i cannot hit perfect 2 or 3 or whatever since its something like 1,9842 or 2,4535. how do i prevent this from happening because this way i cannot control anyhting if i dont hit exactly 1,2,3 or 4

hi, what glitches are you getting ? Also I have 50 mouth shape layers so this method may be a bit tedious. Automating layer index may solve this. Perhaps copy paste would work here for all the layers?

좋아요~

I feel reborn. Thank you 🙏🏾

I did all the steps but couldn't link audio to the null object someone tell me now please 🙏🏻 😂

This is way more effort than time remapping? Especially if I have 20 MOUTHS THE ANIMATION aspect is relatively the same - but the set up of urs is way more tedious ?

Or... If you aren't advanced or patient enough for all this coding, use Time-remapping (or even make a slider, or use awesome plug-in SF Caddy) and then (most importantly) select the comp with your mouths in it, press the STAR option (next to the "Shy" button in your column, it's actually called "collapse transformations"), and then all of the lip-sync won't be glitchy. I say this after animating 15 episodes of a show with glitchy lipsync and finally stumbling on this solution. Collapse transformations makes top priority of rendering the movement from one key to another, getting rid of dropped frames or sticking frames. Seriously. [No disrespect to this super informative video, I just want to put this really necessary step out there for lipsync no matter which option you choose]

My man was gatekeeping stuff from us for 9 years....

Try using Adobe Character Animator for this. It will save you LOADs of time

Why do all of you youtubers never show how to create layers...

“Copy and paste this script” Shows completely unreadable script. Use letter bordering or drop shadow or put the words over a solid color. Make it easier for the viewer. Good video though

thanks, you are genius!

Nice