Forum: Carrara


Subject: Carrara and Mimic

cryptojoe opened this issue on Feb 18, 2008 · 6 posts


cryptojoe posted Mon, 18 February 2008 at 3:28 PM

Can you use Carrara with Mimic?

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GKDantas posted Mon, 18 February 2008 at 3:54 PM

Yes, Mimic create PZ2 files that Carrara can read without problems.

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cryptojoe posted Mon, 18 February 2008 at 6:14 PM

Okay, I have the PZ2 file loaded, so where do I find what to use in animation? I mean, you know, to play sound and what not....

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GKDantas posted Mon, 18 February 2008 at 6:52 PM

I know that Carrara supports sound, but I like to add sound using a video editing software...

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cryptojoe posted Mon, 18 February 2008 at 9:17 PM

I have Adobe Audition; sound,(music or effects) is not the problem, I want the lips to move in sink with the voice, hence I purchased Mimic. Of course, I purchased Carrara to do away with the standard Poser 6 animation.

Thanx for the help GKDantas, I appreciate it very much.

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sfdex posted Wed, 20 February 2008 at 9:23 PM

I use Mimic and Carrara all the time, but I don't use the sound features in Carrara, so I can't answer your question directly.  Much like GKDantas, I use a video editing software package to marry the sound and picture.  Audition is a sound editing package; you'd need to be using Premiere Elements or Premiere Pro (or other editing software -- Vegas, iMovie, etc) to put the sound and video together, after you've rendered the file from Carrara.  You can use AfterEffects for this, as well, but again, it's not software that's designed for audio and video work.

The sound features in Carrara are a nice thought, but for proper alignment and such, a video editing package is the answer.