How to make lips move on a still pic

fogga · #1 (**permalink**) 08-01-2007, 09:16 PM

Take a look at this, I have have been wanting to do this for a while now but I don't know how, I use Vegas 5 but I think I will need other software? I want to be able to make the lips move on a still photo.

YouTube - Fonejacker - ISP

Chapman Photography · #2 (**permalink**) 08-01-2007, 09:56 PM

Funny video, do a search for conan o'brian effect. its been talked about befor.

Alan Mills · #3 (**permalink**) 08-02-2007, 07:40 AM

Can't see YouTube from this machine so presume this is showing a talking mouth through a hole in a stillimage effect?

Another idea, other than that already discussed under that curious namke of 'Conan O'Brien Effect' is that you might be able to animate the original still insetad using the new 'puppet' tool in Adobe After Effect CS3 if you have it. Might be a whole ton of key framing but you should be able to do it.

Crusty · #4 (**permalink**) 08-03-2007, 03:29 AM

Ok.. that video is using just a small set of still pictures, ones with mouth closed and ones with mouth open, and sequencing them to roughly correlate to the dialog. Tedious, but doable.

You'll need to edit your stills in a photoshop sort of picture editor, first.

Chapman Photography · #5 (**permalink**) 08-03-2007, 04:22 AM

Actualy looking at the video again it looks like it is the "pupet" feature in AE CS3. I'm still using AE7 so I can't comment on CS3 maybe Alan can.

Alan Mills · #6 (**permalink**) 08-03-2007, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by Chapman Photography

Actualy looking at the video again it looks like it is the "pupet" feature in AE CS3. I'm still using AE7 so I can't comment on CS3 maybe Alan can.

I'm also using AE7Pro. I know of the puppet tool in CS3 though and have seen a quick demo on video tutorial - that's it. I think it could lend itsefl to this.

It's a mechanism for keyframing the warping/bending of still images.