Had to revive this old thread, finally beginning to animate some characters and ran a test tonight.

I used Ben again, and opened Talk Designer. I loaded a wav file to use for the lipsynch. The wav file is only one sentence of dialogue (about 3 seconds long). If I want to tighten up both the audio and video so it doesn't run past the length of the audio file,  do I just lower the end frame number, and if so, do I change it just in the TD window, or do I also need to change it at the bottom of the screen in the animation preview section? Or am I better off rendering the way it is and cutting it in a video editing program? I just don't want my changing the total frames to affect the accuracy of the lipsynch. It's not that accurate to begin with, but I don't want to throw it off by making changes to the frames.

I've been advised to leave the "skip frames" un-checked, which I did. When un-checked the preview gives almost a "slow motion" type of effect and I can't determine if the lipsynch is accurate unless I do a render.

Anyone have some experience with TD that could give me some tips on how to master this tool I'd appreciate it, thank you! Late here, will check back in the morning.

MM