Adobe Ch puppet body won't animate (but mouths move) while playing recorded audio

Question

I have imported individual (multi-track view) tracks from Audition audio files. I then chose the character and audio and armed Lip Sync and did "Compute Lip Sync Take From Scene Audio"). Everything went well and the character moves his mouth perfectly along with the audio. Only thing is that although the character is chosen (red dot) and moves his body freely, when I start playing his audio, he moves his mouth and the rest of the body freezes and I can't move anything. Only the mouth moves when playing audio. When I stop the audio, I can suddenly move the character again.

Is there a way that I might have saved or exported the file incorrectly or is this simply a setting in Ch that is affecting the character's other movements? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

TheOriginalGC · Answer

It sounds like you are trying to record animation at the same time you are playing it back. There are a couple of things you need to do to make the process go smoothly. First of all, make sure that you have Lip Sync disabled in Puppet Track Behaviors. Since you already have your audio, this will keep it from being overwritten (if you do, no worries, just delete the new tracks from the timeline). Once that's out of the way, hit the Record button instead of the play button. You'll get a countdown and then playback will commence, but this time you'll be able to add animations. Use the same procedure to disable face/limbs/etc. so that you can focus on just the areas you want to animate. Hope this helps.

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