I think it’s good to try and stay on top of emerging tech. So when I hear about new stuff, I like to try to test it out. I blog about my experience with them so other people can see summaries of pipelines and what I learn.
The other day I found out about an Adobe product that animates characters / objects talking to any spoken audio that you give it. It’s called:
Adobe Express
Here is a link to it if you want to give it a try
First, let me show you an example of what I made using it. Below you can see I ran a section of our Marauders intro video through the site.
It made me laugh when I first saw it and the lip syncing is pretty good for uploading a video and waiting like 20 seconds. The choice of characters and backgrounds is a bit limited which is why the character is a bit random looking.
If you want to give it a go yourself. It’s real simple to use. If you go to their site you will get asked to pick a character or object from their presets:
Next go to the “Background” tab and pick something relevant for what you want.
Then check out the bottom left and you will see you can either record directly into the site or upload a video clip of your choice (there is a limit of 2 min and 1GB if you are uploading something custom).
Then sit back and wait for it to finish the process and hey presto you have a lip synced video of your audio.
All in all pretty cool. The limitation of preset characters and backgrounds for me at least makes it more of a gimmick than a tool that could be used currently.
However that said I’m excited to see where this goes in the future!