I am liking what I have heard about this one, and would prefer it to all the others because it imports video reference to fine tune. Would anyone possibly sell one to me if not used anymore ? Is there a mechanism for that ? Many thanks.
I however cannot find it there, for what it's worth I own it but half the time need to use notepad to create dmc files anyway, it just makes it simpler when it doesn't crash as some of the Poser figures I loaded do to it.
Thanks for your kind comments and advice Wendy. I think Mimic Lite only outputs watermarked video (but might be wrong), but Mimic Pro imports reference video for extra timing and tweaking control. There could well be a workflow where background video, or image sequences, could be loaded into Carrara on a timeline for the same thing, using Mimic for Carrara, but I was thinking "quick/compact". Otherwise I wonder if there was ever a giveaway in any of the old 3D mags.
I do have the DazStudio Mimic Pro but have never used it since I moved over to Carrara. I imagine its no good for Genesis at least not without workarounds. From memory clips could be manipulated similar to in a sound editing program that has a line representing volume which can be grabbed and moved up and down or dragged to fade in/out. In mimic the line represents "strength".of motion I dont recall any other particular advantages over Mimic for Carrara apart from the video.
well basically in Mimic Pro you load the DAZ default DMC file then you use the various windows to assign the morphs adjusting strengths and bones to each phoneme and facial expression then you can export a new dmc file and if you wish a pz2 file
I realized that mimic live gives a really good "base layer" lipsynch
And I decided it was just easier to add facial emoting/expressions with
my utterly vast repository of facial morphs &graphMate as the built in expression editor
in mimic pro 3 only worked for legacy poser figures.
If you want reference to a video for your lipsinc AND you want to work with Carrara [ you do dont you ? ] then this should work. I only had time to do the set up and not a full lipsinc test with character.
Apply your video to the plane as a texture [ must be avi ] and make sure the plane is selected in the scene tab to have the video play.Although video has no sound we assume it is the same that you import for lipsinc.
The video import feature in mimic pro 3 will replace the soundtrack& phonemes
in the mimic pro timeline with the sound from the imported video
so you could accurately synch your expressions and phoneme adjustments with
the actual video of the voice actor who is providing the dialogue.
Ooseven, your workaround in Carrara looks quite good. If the avi file retains frame accuarcy, that is a great way for all sorts of reference. Though wolf359's image does come from Mimic Pro and not Mimic Live. That little video feature is great I think, or maybe just the kid in me sees a certain novelty value in it.
I will be honest and say I don't fully understand the Genesis ecosystem. Every time I try to look into it I keep picking up on incompatibility between versions. I was lucky enough to get some Fenric plugins, but noticed on his page the description "These products were all written before the train-wreck known as Genesis was created by DAZ". I'm not 100% sure what is the reasoning, but am guessing due to eventually hitting an element of "workarounds of the workarounds". Though I do like Dart's figures, which I think are Genesis based, so obviously people are using them successfully..
With Mimic Pro I was thinking it would give access to Carrara, Poser, and with the Pro Pack for earlier versions of Poser could leapfrog into other software like Lightwave - custom figures going back and forth as necessary, combined with the video preview window for dialogue (I really should stop mentioning that, and Ooseven's solution does look good). Wendy's workflow seems quite impressive - voice control like the holodeck (!). Your own thoughts are very interesting too, thank you for the uploads.
I now have the Carrara 3 and 5 books which between them have a head and figure tutorial section. In theory these could be made in Carrara, rigged in Poser, then drop into all sorts of workflows. That was the (possibly flawed) thinking anyway.
Meanwhile Wendy - quote "populating itself with NLA clips using a dmc file" Can you say where I might find a G8 dmc file ? I looked in Dim Installed content G8 Folder but didn't see anything.
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