Hello everyone got mimic just yesterday .it's fun. well, i can do talking animations fine. but i decided to try some singing, when i tell poser to render the Sound Track doesn't appear in the movie. Why is this? Sometimes it does but i have to try a lot of times just to get it to do it Another thing is the singing doesn't match my mouth movement I believed i heard someone here who tried some singing and he said it was perfect, well mine is not. Maybe it's because mimic doesn't elongate phoenemes and when you sing you keep the mouth open on a note for sometime. Anyone have any tips?

The singing stuff I tried turned out pretty bad. I did try this and had pretty good results. I had the song playing on headphones real low and spoke the lyrics into a mike. I used that recording with mimic and put the song in the final. Not sure what the sound/poser problem is. You might need to use another app, like a video program that can add sound to video.

Sometimes my sound doesn't play in Poser, what I do is go to Animation>Clear Sound and then File>Import Sound and load the wav back in.

Singing is essentially different from speech. The vocal folds and mouth are shaped in special ways for singing, which produces a distinct set of frequency components in the resulting sound. A spectrum analyzer like Mimic is designed to separate the formants (frequency components) in normal speech, so it will naturally make mistakes when trying to deal with singing. And if there are instruments in the background, the task becomes just about impossible.

Mimic is quite good for speech, as ockham said. For singing, you may need to do some tweaking of the face morphs. I have Mimic 2 Pro, but I think Mimic 2 does this also? I'm working on a 1470 frame animation of the "Brave Sir Robin" song from Monty Python & the Holy Grail (ok,ok, these Monty Python wav's are about the only ones I have, so I keep using them for practice and learning). The song features one singer & some instruments and then Robin speaking at the end. The lip-flaps that Mimic creates are good, but not the emphasis that a song needs. Slow work, but it IS working.

Hey guys thanks for the responses. Well i found out what my problem was. I DIDN"T HAVE ENOUGH DISKSPACe, he he he .. man those quicktime movs get big. As for the singing, i had my sister make a sound of her singing in an exhaulted yelling like voice and that was difficult for poser to do well. however, when i made singing with my own voice, which was not yelling, it looked pretty good.

lynn what a great idea! Marque