We’re collecting information regarding possible new SmartMouth features.
Here are a couple items we’re considering. We’d love to have your feedback so that we can determine where to best apply our resources.
1. Additional languages. This would only apply to the user interface at the moment (and not the help documentation).
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2. Keyframe Frequency Control. This would allow you to limit or reduce how many keyframe are produced in Flash Pro by SmartMouth. Some people have noted that by default, SmartMouth outputs a lot of keyframes. This is fine if you’re animating on 1s (24-30 fps), but if you’re animating on 2s (12 fps), the mouths move too quickly in relation to the rest of the animation. In response, we released the Convert to 2s and Convert to Ns extensions to convert keyframes to different frequencies. These extensions can be used with or without SmartMouth. This proposed new feature, however, would be built into SmartMouth and would choose which keyframes to omit based on how unlikely SmartMouth believes they are to a match, rather than just arbitrarily removing keyframes.
It might look something like this:
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Update (11/16/2011):
The Keyframe Frequency feature has been added in version 1.1.
Thanks in advance for your input!
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