How do you keep lip-sync accuracy when using fast-cut editing styles?

[rosebl22]

Hey everyone! I’ve been experimenting with faster-paced editing in my AMVs — lots of jump cuts and quick transitions — but I’ve noticed it’s getting harder to keep my lip-sync precise without it looking jittery or off-beat. Do you have any tricks or workflows to maintain lip-sync accuracy while still keeping that high-energy, fast-cut rhythm? Maybe a specific plugin, timeline technique, or frame-marking method? Would love to hear how you handle this balance!

[Zarxrax]

I feel like the more fast paced things get, the more leeway you actually have with your lip sync, because people aren't going to notice it so much. You also actually have a bit more freedom because cuts allow you to break away at parts where the lip sync would have been difficult, and you can try it a different way. One thing to keep in mind with a faster paced amv is to stay aware of the viewer's line of sight. If you want them to be able to pay attention to the mouths, then the mouth needs to stay in relatively the same part of the screen from one cut to the next.

[AkiraBlaid]

Break it down into "flaps" which are mouth movements. And it might be counter-intuitive but at the end of the day, many of the flaps will just be 1 frame in order to deal with the speed of speech. With lots of syllables some one-frame flaps are really needed in order to keep up, and it's the same way they do it in anime production. Try and follow the waveform and keep the flaps at the exact timing or in some cases 1 frame before.

[AkiraBlaid]

Break it down into "flaps" which are mouth movements. And it might be counter-intuitive but at the end of the day, many of the flaps will just be 1 frame in order to deal with the speed of speech. With lots of syllables some one-frame flaps are really needed in order to keep up, and it's the same way they do it in anime production. Try and follow the waveform and keep the flaps at the exact timing or in some cases 1 frame before.

[tuxedomarty]

Break it down into "flaps" which are mouth movements. And it might be counter-intuitive but at the end of the day, many of the flaps will just be 1 frame in order to deal with the speed of speech. With lots of syllables some one-frame flaps are really needed in order to keep up, and it's the same way they do it in anime production. Try and follow the waveform and keep the flaps at the exact timing or in some cases 1 frame before.

Yeah, lip syncing is difficult to pull off. And if you want it that bad, this is probably the best way to do it. But I don't intentionally include lip syncing most of the time, and this is one reason why.