In this step, you will use Toon Boom Studio to generate a lip chart that matches Deb Ant’s speech to a set of animation phonemes. You can use the lip chart as a reference as you draw the lip sync images for your characters.
To generate a lip chart for a Deb Ant’s voice track:
1. Select the debSpeaks element and select Element > Edit Sound. The Sound Element Editor appears.
2. In the Sound Element panel, click the wave form of the sound track and click the Streamed checkbox to set up this sound for streaming.
Voice tracks are best set as streamed sounds because they begin playing before the entire sound is loaded and will better maintain synchronization with images in Macromedia® Flash movies.
3. Select the waveform in the Sound Element panel and click the Lip-Sync button. A progress bar appears as Toon Boom Studio analyzes the selected sound clips and assigns a lip sync letter to each frame.
The lip sync images on the right side of the window become active. Drag the frame slider in the Sound Element panel to see the lip position for each frame of sound.
4. Select the Enable Scrubbing option at the bottom of the Sound Element Editor. Scrubbing allows you to slowly play the sound forward and backward.
5. Drag the frame slider at the top of the Current Sound panel to “scrub” the sound track and hear for yourself the sound that Deb is making at each frame.
6. Click OK to close the Sound Element Editor and then save your animation set.
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