Thank you again, sbtamu. Your math makes perfect sense. Since we're working in an X, Y coordinate setup, it makes sense to do things with percentages. It may not be exact, but carrying out to the 4th decimal (one ten thousandth), makes it close enough for me. I'm glad I asked you, because I would ne...

sbtamu, it's late and I can't wrap my brain around your math. Can you give me new coordinates? (Maybe you can explain the math, too?) I need to move the outer two screens up 63 pixels from my original coordinate document as follows. Thank you very much for your help. LEFT SIDE OF VIDEO (Mac Mini 1 O...

Thank you GCharb and sbtamu. You both offered very helpful solutions. GCharb, while your PNG shows up after I import it, for some reason only some of the lines show up on the screen until I zoom way in where the rest of them show up. It's like the lines just need to be a few pixels thicker to show u...

Let me preface this by saying that I'm more of a "producer" than I am an "animator" or "artist." The only reason I do any animation work myself is because I don't have the budget to hire a real animator/artist to provide his/her skill. So, please cut me some slack if wh...

Just realized that it probably is real, because it's for Anime Studio Pro VERSION 6. They're being very tricky about the whole thing. There's no mention of it being version 6 in the subject line. You have to look at the image in the e-mail to see that it's version 6 on the box, and it's mentioned in...

Is this real, or is it spam? I just received an e-mail from the following address: smithmicro@reply.digitalriver.com That says, "Save 80% on Anime Studio Pro and earn bonus items-the more people buy, the more you get!" The e-mail encourages me to "Pass It On." A "380 Value O...

O.K. I've been waiting for automated lip synch for a long time. It's the most tedious part of my workflow, as I create at least one three-minute voiced animation per week. I currently use Papagayo. Although it works extremely well and allows a high level of accuracy, it takes forever lining up each ...

I'm running ASP-5.5 on a Mac Pro and thinking about upgrading to ASP-6. I've been using Papagayo for lip sync in all of my animations. Although Papagayo is much faster than frame-by frame animation, it's still very time consuming. Smith Micro made a big deal about the "new" Integrated Lip ...

O.K....so, I just checked out the Xbox Project Natal. Very Cool stuff! I'm curious if any of you know whether they are working on lip sync for live animation. The system seems to be primarily centered around full body motion-capture, facial recognition, and voice-recognition. I'd love to see this te...

Thanks for the advice. Man, that was a quick answer. Much appreciated. Good to know. I also just discovered that I simply needed to export the quicktime from Final Cut using the Animation codec, which includes the Alpha channel. The whole thing imports with a transparent background into AS. Now all ...

I'm doing the cutout trick like Conan O'Brian used to do with Arnold Schwarzenegger's face...only I'm adding a bit more. I've got an image of the face of Einstein with the mouth cut out. I'm compositing the image over the top of a video of lips moving to the words. I'd like to export the video from ...

Good info, jahnocli. I agree with your comment on the audio issue. I'm a writer/producer type who has been forced into doing my own editing and animating work because I don't have the budget to pay talented animators...yet. My college degree is in audio engineering, so I hate to see audio limitation...

I'm trying to determine a long-term solution for animating pre-rigged 2D characters like those offered for sale by Cartoon Solutions. All of their Anime Studio Characters begin in a Flash Format, and they have many more of those characters available in Flash than in Anime Studio. I'm new to Anime St...

Did you have any responses to your post about mouths to download or purchase? I'm a new ASPRO user and had the same question..