I sell a lot of puppets, but I, and many other designers, could sell ALOT more if the customer didnt have to sign up for CH to operate the puppet. Bare with me, I have a solution. Its not only the cost, but some people find using the software difficult if they are not use to PC.MAC based programs, many today are use to using simple to load and play apps. What I propose is you build an app player that could operate .puppet files. I am not saying do it for free. Sell it for $50, I can get a customer to buy the app, and you will get many more non-adobe users potentially using a new product of yours

Greetings: My name is Ken Wampler, I've been a member since 8/28/2015. I don't have a suggestion for software changes for CA (not currently anyway), but for user experience. I've been working on a video for sometime now and I have two charactors which I have done the voices for. I have a need for third charactor which I chose the Caufman charactor to play because he could walk. I needed a voice actor for this and went to fiverr.com for this. I was disappointed with the results. I now see the difficulty in getting good voice matches.
You have a load of puppets for use on your website and on Daves. I haven't seen any of these appear in videos on youtube. maybe because others have same problem. I have thought of this before, but more so after my recent experience, that it might be possible for CA users to have a place to upload charactors with their voice interpretations of these puppets and others might hire them for their projects. I think this is a big problem for CA users getting voices for their needs. this might come from the CA community who are more familiar with your charactors. or maybe hold contests to see who could come up with best voice for a paticular puppet.

While adjusting settings in my newest puppet I discovered that replays are affected by the dependence/independence settings of the puppet.

For example, the replays of my puppet were recorded while the torso was set as independent. Once I changed the torso to dependent, the replays became erratic and the arm positions were completely messed up. Almost all of the replays need to re-recorded. Adjusting other settings like the attach style and dependence/independence of other groups did not resolve the issue.

Please:
1. Include this in the documentation and info about Character Animator. The current details imply that replays are "set in stone" and would therefore not be affected by independence changes.
2. Add a toggle setting for replays that allows them to adhere to the puppet settings of when they were recorded.

After upgrading to Mojave MacOS, we are having significant performance issues with our existing CA live-streaming setups. Our setup is this:

CA 2018 or 2019 (720 project, 20fps) -> Wirecast or OBS (via NDI or Syphon, tried both) -> RTMP (1.5mbps 30fps 540p) to our servers

When running some of our triggered animations of our puppets, the FPS out of CA drops to single digits, and seems to combat Wirecast or OBS, which in turn drops dozens/hundreds frames on Wirecast or OBS. This did not happen in previous versions of MacOS, and we have taken the same project files/config and run them on an identical High Sierra machine with no issues, so there seems to be a priority battle for real-time processing that Wirecast and CA fight over with some more intensive animations.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016)
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
16gb ram
Radeon Pro 450 2048 MB
Intel HD Graphics 530 1536 MB