How do you synch character movements to videos when you can't import them?

just import your Ch movie intro Premiere. In premiere you can easily place, cut, and edit your character on top of your video. When you import the actual scene from your Ch file it dynamically links. I find it easy to move and edit parts of my character to sync up exactly. And you could always go back to Ch and make an update... and when you go back into Premiere... BOOM - its updated! The amazing part is going to Photoshop, updating your character and pressing save, and then it updates your animation in CH and Updates the movie linked in Pr giving you a LOT of control. I think its pretty awesome. After effects can be used in the same way, but this would be to add tracking or effects.... for editing Premiere is the tool to use, and its less of a space hog then AE too!

Hope that helps!
have fun!

mark

No, but there is a feature request if you would like to add your vote for it. Best idea I can suggest if you want accurate pointing is in PP work out the key frames you want to point at, export that single frame, note the position in time, then import that frame into CH as a background. Yes, a pain.  

Another idea i have never tried - export from PP as a image (png) sequence via media encoder, but see if you can make it speed up video or something so it only exports one frame every 2 seconds of the original video. Then load those frames into a cycles layers in ch. Hopefully that will not put too much load on ch.

The other way to do it is using Dynaimc Link. You can drag the Ch scene into After Effects and it will overlay the puppet on top of a video. It can get sluggish, but it does work. Each time you update the scene, it will update in after effects. With your small simple puppet it might work acceptably. (I rarely use it myself as on my computer it is just too slow to be usable.)