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G'day Neil -
Yes - that was done using an older version of Crazy Talk. It's such easy software to use, even I can do it! It's purpose-built for the task.
I made that video for my Dad's 80th birthday some years back. It went down well. Recorded the VO in one take! Glad you enjoyed it, anyway.
Back to PDR, as shown in the thread Robert linked, a similar sort of thing can be done with a masked video of someone actually speaking.
Cheers - Tony
Hey Tony, I really cracked up with that clip! And yeah, JimShoes12 and Robert, alias Shadowman, I think I might've figured out the method.... First you need your still image that you hope to animate the lips for, then you need to create a PNG file of this still image but you'll need to make the mouth area transparent. Then you'll need to record a sequence of yourself or someone(anyone) speaking the wanted line(s). To create the efect, you'll probably need three video tracks here, Video Track 1 can carry either black(or any other) colour board(in case the video, or the still, or both, do not fill the 16:9 screen), or any backdrop will do. Now we put the video of you(or whomever you had) speaking the lines, while this video is on thack 2 it can be easily positioned so the speaking mouth will appear where it needs to be, as the still of the image you want speaking your words(with the mouth area transparent) is laid on Video Track 3. The still can be of just about anything you can think of that you want to make look like its talking... the family pet(cat or dog) perhaps.
Actually, this has given me an idea. I've started producing a set of tutorials of my own called Video Editing Tricks & Tips., I want to get at least five done before I start uploading them, Producing one on this effect might be laborious and time-consuming but the result might be worth it!
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