Character Animator
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Allow user to break the "Head Position Strength" Property from the "Camera Input" Behavior into "Horizontal & Vertical" Strength properties
This would let the user fully customize and improve advanced headturns (made through stacking multiple Face Behaviors).
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Support for transcripts/subtitles when auto lip syncing
Allow support for importing a transcript or subtitle file, so the auto lip sync could analyse both the audio and the transcript for a more accurate result.
If the program knows exactly what words are said, it should presumably have a much better idea of which 'Visemes' to use.
(Though obviously this wouldn't work for a live stream aha!14 votes -
Scene resize resolution
I would be good to make it possible to resize the resolution of the scene and have all elements (puppets and backgrounds) resize to match.
Currently if you change the resolution, you then have to resize each element individually, if you have a lot in a scene this can be time consuming.
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Allow CH puppet to create live track inside Adobe Rush (on iPad)
Related to streaming, it would be great if I could create a puppet on desktop but create a recording using the puppet on my iPad. I can author a video on my iPad using Adobe Rush which is pretty nice, but I had to give up using my puppet as the show host.
Yeah, this sounds hard. I guess more realistic is creating a video file and uploading to desktop. There is that separate request to allow a video as the background so you can use the timeline to move forward/backwards and animate over the top (keeping the animation in…
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Make a tutorial on finding missing artwork files.
Need to re-link missing files.
2 votesWhen the application cannot locate the artwork for a puppet file, you can select the puppet in the Project panel, then click the orange file path in the Properties panel to select the correct/updated location for it.
Thanks for the feedback on making the process of relinking a little more understandable.
Or are you encountering a different relinking issue?
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Optimize CH to work better with Illustrator
The older versions of CH as well as the latest version of CH still has issues with puppets created in AI. I tested the Chloe (AI) puppet in the latest version of CH and the performance is awful. I'm getting about 4.5 FPS. I tested the Red Monster (PS) in the same version of CH and it worked fine. Is there anyway to optimize CH to work better with puppets created in AI.
Laptop Specs: Dell XPS 9560 2018, 16 GB RAM, I7, 512SSD, NVIDIA GE 1050
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Animator should not open with a projects panel
Character Animator always openes the last project. It takes a lot of time to load a project and then load the project you actually want to work with. I could open that project itself, instead of the program, but it could open the Start-Panel first and then load the project when selected to do so.
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Bug: Waiting for camera forever on mac mojave
On Mojave (10.14.3), the camera doesn't work: It is "Waiting for camera" forever. The green light next to the camera comes on, but CA stays waiting. I've tried all the ideas found in google searches:
- I can't change to the next camera (there's only 1).
- I have given permission to the camera, and even rebooted after.
- The mic works fine.
- The camera works in other apps, e.g. Chrome (which also has permission, I just didn't include that in the screenshot).Version2.0.1 (Build 8)
3 votesHi Sergei and Doug,
Can you please let us know if you have more details on this? Sergei, we haven’t seen your situation before. Please bring this topic to the user forum so we can dissect it with you there.
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Audio Hardware
Switching monitors and auddio devices on a mac and pc causes a ton of these pop up boxes. Even when I select do not show again, I'm stuck having to close 10+ of these every time using Character Animator. I switch screens, audio devices (headphones to monitor) etc... a lot, so these add up.
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Preview render in timeline
My puppets are many layered and large which I know creates a drag on resources. The frame rate slowing is not usually much of an issue - except today as I'm working on lipsyncing. In this particular area, I do want frame accurate playback. Visemes not aligning with speech is very noticeable... it's hard to get it right when the frame rate is playing back at 50%.
What I have been doing is dynamically linking to AE with composition set to play all frames. The render is bearable and I can see what needs tweaking.
My wonder is, can CH…
3 votesHi Imari,
One of the unique things about Character Animator is that you can layer multiple takes with different properties, behaviors, and parameters enabled, in the same scene timeline.
So your workflow could include an initial performance where you record your basic audio and face tracking, then disarm audio and face, and other properties that are not needed, then record another take using only remaining armed properties, for instance, draggers, physics or triggers. This means that you can always change and add to your performance, even after recording the initial take or many.
That’s a long way of saying, for the time being, the best things you can do to preview without running into performance issues, is disarm anything you aren’t needing to have active during your preview. So, if you have a timeline with multiple puppet tracks, physics, draggers and triggers behaviors, but you’re working on your face tracking…
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adobe animator puppet doesn't work under when alt tabbed running in background
how do I make it so the puppet still moves when it is running in the background?
1 voteIn the Camera & Microphone panel’s menu (click the three short horizontal lines next to the panel’s name to open the menu), make sure the Pause Camera & Microphone When Application in Background option is unchecked.
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The camera keeps coming on and off on Windows 10 v1903. All other camera apps work fine.
I have a Dell XPS 15 (7590) with Windows 10 v1903 and the camera keeps coming on and off. It will stay on for a few seconds, then the message "waiting for camera" appears for a few seconds and repeat. All other camera apps work fine and the webcam light stays on the whole time. I have the latest version - 2.1.1. Please help!
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richg click on scene and duplicate it :P --- it would be a big feature
sometimes we need compare 2 scenes with some changes, this feature would be ideal for this
1 voteIf you select the scene in the project panel and hit command+D key, it will duplicate the scene and contents. Is that what you’re asking for?
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Create a higher quality "compute lip sync from scene audio"
Please create a setting(s) for creating a more accurate "lip sync from scene audio". Maybe leave the current way it's done for people who want it done with the current quality/time, but allow people to choose a much higher quality setting (and let the software run for 10x the current time if necessary). I currently spend many hours fixing the visemes for my dialogue (at least 30 hours for a 30 minute animation). There isn't one string of dialogue that I don't have to fix.
Is this possible?
8 votesIs it possible to provide us with your finished edits and original audio for us to compare what’s automatic versus your edited (desired) output? This will help us train the software.
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BUG Report: GL Error
Hi,
I am experiencing a GL error when I try to run Character Animator and haven't managed to run it successfully yet. I have attached screenshots to give you more information
2 votesWhat’s the GPU (make/model) in your machine? Do you have a discrete graphics card, such as from NVIDIA or AMD, or just integrated graphics from Intel?
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Keep Audio Track Visible.
Would be really helpful to have the audio track locked so it doesn't scroll in the Timeline. Keeping the waveform visible even when scrolling up and down.
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Illustrator symbols
Currently layers that contain Illustrator symbols are not parsed correctly in Character Animator showing only one instance and recognising the layer name.
It's useful to be able to include Illustrator symbols to avoid creating and editing multiple times the same artwork (e.g. eyes, pupils, eyebrows, etc.).
I hope this is considered as a compatibility feature request and gets added to the backlog.
Best
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[Bug] Edit visemes with .ai puppets
I noticed that I can edit visemes with a .psd import but not Illustrator artwork
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IMPROVE TIMELINE RULER UNIT OPTIONS
I've been trying to sync an animated drummer with prerecorded drums but I can't line up my triggers with the sound waves even 60 fps making the animated drummer completely out of sync with the music. there has to be a way to slide items on a timeline without snapping directly to the beginning or end of a frame. I understand that 60fps is fast enough for visual satisfaction but in an animation project heavily based on music i would love for the animation and musical actions to occur simultaneously.
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1 vote
Does a keyboard shortcut satisfy your needs? Shift+Command+D will split the take and create a corresponding track for the video and audio portions on either side of your “cut”.
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