I was very intimidated to try singing faces this year. It's my first year in Xlights. After watching your video i was able to do it in like 5 min. Thanks for the information.
Ok,y you are my savior. Im doing an Xlights Christmas project with 10grade students and running out of time, as the show should be displayed by Dec 1. This has just helped us by A LOT!
Ron, my man, you are my hero! A little background. As a recently retired newbie possessing novice+ computer skills who's been watching your videos, and some others, alongside the Xlights sequencer on a split screen. It's been, Watch Ron-Pause Ron-Do what Ron just did-Play Ron-Repeat Ad Infinitum. With no Christmas lights experience, except for some boring C9 strings from Home Depot, I dreamed at night of doing more. I bought a custom Coro model of a boy holding a blanket from a popular Christmas cartoon show. Not sure about copyrights, but his download name is Blanket Boy, aka L****s. Since, I've added Boscoyo's Nativity Set and a whole bunch of other models that I'm running out of place to store. Amongst Blanket Boy's 300+ pixels lies the moving mouth I requested, already plugged into the little guy's node layout. I scoured the web for a downloadable version of Blanket Boy's telling of the real meaning of Christmas. After 2 days, success. Converted mp4 to mp3, dragged the file and pasted the boy's Bible verses into Auto Lyrics. Fingers crossed, waited and waited and waited for Auto Lyrics to go from Processing to Download. Duh, I remembered someone saying refresh the page. Bingo. Between Ron and the Xlights Tutorial the mouth was given color. Finally, with great trepidation, but with Ron's encouragement, the sequence was opened in Xlights. With one eye closed I pressed the play arrow button. No mouth movement. Wait, Ron mentioned the timing track in the Faces effect. WTH, mine was empty. In desperation, right clicking the New Timing-Import Lyrics, (somewhere I'd seen this??) I copied and pasted the boy's Bible verses into the box. Voila! It works perfectly with no further adjustments. Long post, but I wanted to say something more than "Great video, Ron," Have a terrific vacation.
I'm so glad the tutorial helped you. xLights can be very difficult to use for many. Nicely done and I appreciate you taking the time to share your story.
This is cool! I HATE doing singing faces just for the amount of time it would take me to get the motions as perfect as possible. I think this will drastically reduce time and i will give it a shot. Thanks.
I could only describe this new sequencing tool as FANTASTIC, with such simplicity and yet a product of complexity, great job to all involved, Thanks Ron for sharing this with the Xlights community,
I couldn't agree more. The original version of this was problematic and slow. The work that Ben Dudley and Jim put into making this a valued resource goes without saying.
First of all thank you for the great content. I’m just getting into this hobby and I’m super excited. Keeping it very simple this year with two talking lightbulbs and some outlining of my house. I just followed your instructions and it seemed to download as intended but how can I get the lightbulbs to sing there lines by themselves. Male sings his verses and female sing hers. When I downloaded as you instructed both face sing all the lyrics. The song is “baby it’s cold outside” Thank you for any help.
Just a tip. The new paid version (about $300) of DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.5 has a feature that can do a speech to text capture if you don't have the lyrics already. I haven't tried it yet, but it might help.
Hi Ron! I am trying my first singing faces and was following a long. First of all, I love the video. I have been watching your videos lately and have really enjoyed them. I am trying a song where I was not really happy with the way the timing track turned out on the website. I am playing with "Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas". I was not happy with the Phoneme section for many of the words. Is there a way to change the Phoneme section for each word?
How are the faces them self created? And is there software. Could you do a monday minute on creating one. With open mouth and or closed mouth. ? Thanks. Mack W
Depending on the ammount of time you are willing to put into it you can create multiple lyrics and isolate each part. As far as the audio not being in sync you can deleselect all timings, select them, and use the arrow key right or left to nudge them ever sol slightly until they line up.
Do you have a tutorial anywhere that would show me how to put one person's singing part on one face and another singing part on a different face? In other words, a duo and each face is singing their own part.
@@xTremeSequences unfortunately all of the words for both people singing came across on only one timing track. It's a duet where they're both singing their own part.
@@xTremeSequences I really appreciate you trying to help but unfortunately that didn't work. It is not recognizing one distinct voice as the lead vocal and the other voice as "background". I still have just one track with both voices signing but again, I appreciate you trying to help me.
You might contact ABBA's management to tell them this information. LOL! I have no idea why so maybe leave a message with the contact information in AutoLyrics.
I was very intimidated to try singing faces this year. It's my first year in Xlights. After watching your video i was able to do it in like 5 min. Thanks for the information.
I'm glad yo hear this. It really is so much easier than before.
Thank you Ron. I was just working through this on a sequence the hard way. Really appreciate your passion for helping others in the community.
I glad it helped.
Thank you! This 70-year-old absolute beginner is super excited to be as efficient as I am cheap!
Ok,y you are my savior. Im doing an Xlights Christmas project with 10grade students and running out of time, as the show should be displayed by Dec 1. This has just helped us by A LOT!
I'm so glad this helped you. I hope you share the project to see the great work!
Ron, my man, you are my hero! A little background. As a recently retired newbie possessing novice+ computer skills who's been watching your videos, and some others, alongside the Xlights sequencer on a split screen. It's been, Watch Ron-Pause Ron-Do what Ron just did-Play Ron-Repeat Ad Infinitum. With no Christmas lights experience, except for some boring C9 strings from Home Depot, I dreamed at night of doing more. I bought a custom Coro model of a boy holding a blanket from a popular Christmas cartoon show. Not sure about copyrights, but his download name is Blanket Boy, aka L****s. Since, I've added Boscoyo's Nativity Set and a whole bunch of other models that I'm running out of place to store. Amongst Blanket Boy's 300+ pixels lies the moving mouth I requested, already plugged into the little guy's node layout. I scoured the web for a downloadable version of Blanket Boy's telling of the real meaning of Christmas. After 2 days, success. Converted mp4 to mp3, dragged the file and pasted the boy's Bible verses into Auto Lyrics. Fingers crossed, waited and waited and waited for Auto Lyrics to go from Processing to Download. Duh, I remembered someone saying refresh the page. Bingo. Between Ron and the Xlights Tutorial the mouth was given color. Finally, with great trepidation, but with Ron's encouragement, the sequence was opened in Xlights. With one eye closed I pressed the play arrow button. No mouth movement. Wait, Ron mentioned the timing track in the Faces effect. WTH, mine was empty. In desperation, right clicking the New Timing-Import Lyrics, (somewhere I'd seen this??) I copied and pasted the boy's Bible verses into the box. Voila! It works perfectly with no further adjustments. Long post, but I wanted to say something more than "Great video, Ron," Have a terrific vacation.
I'm so glad the tutorial helped you. xLights can be very difficult to use for many. Nicely done and I appreciate you taking the time to share your story.
This is cool! I HATE doing singing faces just for the amount of time it would take me to get the motions as perfect as possible. I think this will drastically reduce time and i will give it a shot. Thanks.
Absolutely!
I used it a couple of weeks ago, pretty sick! Thanks guys big time!!! I used it for Imagine...spot on!
Glad it's worked well for you. I love it!
I can't wait to try. Would this work for regular voice recordings also?
I would think so.
I could only describe this new sequencing tool as FANTASTIC, with such simplicity and yet a product of complexity, great job to all involved, Thanks Ron for sharing this with the Xlights community,
I couldn't agree more. The original version of this was problematic and slow. The work that Ben Dudley and Jim put into making this a valued resource goes without saying.
Love it. "The Juice is Worth The Squeeze "
Thanks
Thanks! I agree.
WOW. this is fantastic! it has just saved me hours. thank you for the video!
Just goes to show we may be a small island, yet with big ideas! Well done to those creators. Hope there is a way for people to donate somehow!
Thre is a link at the bottom to donate to help with some coffee.
Great tool. Thanks Ron.
Makes me want to sequence faces again.
as a member of the 1st and 2nd singing faces group... THIS is so much easier and faster, just have to give it a little tweak here and there
That's great to hear. I know many will benefit from it.
Thanks Ron.Maybe Xlights can add that to there program....
Awesome--thanks for sharing this, Ron!
Just watched. Thanks
Ron, as always great tutorial.
Thanks, Chuck!
This makes me happy!
Awesome, Thanks for the video!
You bet!
First of all thank you for the great content. I’m just getting into this hobby and I’m super excited. Keeping it very simple this year with two talking lightbulbs and some outlining of my house. I just followed your instructions and it seemed to download as intended but how can I get the lightbulbs to sing there lines by themselves. Male sings his verses and female sing hers. When I downloaded as you instructed both face sing all the lyrics. The song is “baby it’s cold outside” Thank you for any help.
Just a tip. The new paid version (about $300) of DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.5 has a feature that can do a speech to text capture if you don't have the lyrics already. I haven't tried it yet, but it might help.
Good to know. I have never had an issue finding lyrics to music.
Absolutely Fantastic!!!
Thank you!
This is awesome, just tried it, way better than me, thank you, worth a donation
I'm glad it helped.
Hi Ron! I am trying my first singing faces and was following a long. First of all, I love the video. I have been watching your videos lately and have really enjoyed them.
I am trying a song where I was not really happy with the way the timing track turned out on the website. I am playing with "Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas". I was not happy with the Phoneme section for many of the words. Is there a way to change the Phoneme section for each word?
How are the faces them self created? And is there software. Could you do a monday minute on creating one. With open mouth and or closed mouth. ? Thanks. Mack W
Others have created the matrix singing faces that are included in xLights.
can you put link in description?
Done!
Great video. Where do we go for support please. I'm getting an import error.
What about multiple singers singing at the same time, but not in sync?
I used to offset the non-lead singers by oh, half a second of so.
Depending on the ammount of time you are willing to put into it you can create multiple lyrics and isolate each part. As far as the audio not being in sync you can deleselect all timings, select them, and use the arrow key right or left to nudge them ever sol slightly until they line up.
@@wirekat It is on the roadmap for the Autolyrics site, along with some other cool features in 2023 :)
@@lightingfanatics Cool Beans!
Whos singing face coro is that from? Seems that it has more mouth abilities than mine.
Gilbert Engineering
Do you have a tutorial anywhere that would show me how to put one person's singing part on one face and another singing part on a different face? In other words, a duo and each face is singing their own part.
You simply add the same singing face effect to the second face and choose a toming track.
@@xTremeSequences unfortunately all of the words for both people singing came across on only one timing track. It's a duet where they're both singing their own part.
You can use Moise.ai to separate background vocals from the lead vocals and run them both through AutoLyrics.@@MichaelHaggard
@@xTremeSequences I really appreciate you trying to help but unfortunately that didn't work. It is not recognizing one distinct voice as the lead vocal and the other voice as "background". I still have just one track with both voices signing but again, I appreciate you trying to help me.
Newbie question Where did you get the matrix gifs that you showed
These are built-in faces in xLights available for all.
Where do I go for MP3 files
Amazon
i uploaded abba song it is a mp3 and the lyrics i get error it's not a mp3
You might contact ABBA's management to tell them this information. LOL! I have no idea why so maybe leave a message with the contact information in AutoLyrics.
i have tried other songs and no luck.@@xTremeSequences
And now the link doesn't work I triple checked!
Your link does....sorry....but when I tried to just type it in it didn't. Got it! Thanks
@@TheBruceJohnston If you are referring to the AutoLyrics link I just clicked it and it works fine.