New Papagayo to After Effects Convertor for Mac OSX - PapaAE
Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 9:38 pm
I animate primarily in after effects and really like papagayo. But going from papagayo to after effects has been a pain.
I got tired of the lipsync widget never working correctly. I got endless "cannot process file errors from it." I emailed the creator of the lipsync widget and never got a reply. I was very frustrated.
So I wrote my own convertor app - PapaAE
It is simple and ugly but it works every time. It does not have as many features as lipsync. You can not change phoneme sets. Its set to Preston Blair and that is it. On a plus side, it is an app and not a widget so you don't have to do the goofy click-drag-hit f4-drop thing like lipsync. It only has one button right now, it opens a file select window. Pick your papagayo .dat file and your done.
Another feature is that it corrects for silence at the beginning of your sound file. lipsync always placed keyframes at the start of your dialogue not at the start of the sound file. This bugged me so I fixed it to place a rest until the start of the dialogue.
It currently only outputs at 30 frames per second, but I am going to change that soon so that you can select the frame rate. If you can't wait you can always edit the output AE text file, there is only one line you have to edit. Then copy and paste the txt to AE.
EDIT ** Added PapaAE2 to github
https://github.com/RSAnimation/Papagayo
Feel free to download it and use it but please do not repost it. Thanks
-Roger
I got tired of the lipsync widget never working correctly. I got endless "cannot process file errors from it." I emailed the creator of the lipsync widget and never got a reply. I was very frustrated.
So I wrote my own convertor app - PapaAE
It is simple and ugly but it works every time. It does not have as many features as lipsync. You can not change phoneme sets. Its set to Preston Blair and that is it. On a plus side, it is an app and not a widget so you don't have to do the goofy click-drag-hit f4-drop thing like lipsync. It only has one button right now, it opens a file select window. Pick your papagayo .dat file and your done.
Another feature is that it corrects for silence at the beginning of your sound file. lipsync always placed keyframes at the start of your dialogue not at the start of the sound file. This bugged me so I fixed it to place a rest until the start of the dialogue.
It currently only outputs at 30 frames per second, but I am going to change that soon so that you can select the frame rate. If you can't wait you can always edit the output AE text file, there is only one line you have to edit. Then copy and paste the txt to AE.
EDIT ** Added PapaAE2 to github
https://github.com/RSAnimation/Papagayo
Feel free to download it and use it but please do not repost it. Thanks
-Roger