JMonstre

Is there anything I can do to generate a dump file, or is it something A:M needs to do?

Thanks. Changing the Real-time driver setting appears to make no difference. Where can I find V15? I've looked around the site and can't find it.

I've crashed it 3 or 4 times to see if I can get a .dmp file to generate, but no luck. Although, what I am seeing (that I didn't see before) is that it's generating the phenomes now. I can see them for about a second. Then it crashes. Yep, I've tried that. It didn't change anything.

Yep, it's in the default location (C:\Program Files\Hash Inc\V19.0\) I have a Dictionary.dic file at 5.23mb. Thanks for that. I tried running it as Administrator. I don't have to adjust each sound files volume level down to 99% to hear it when running as administrator, but I still crash out when I try to generate a dope sheet.

Thanks for all the tips everyone. Again, I really appreciate your time. I'm the only user on this PC, so I'm dong it with Admin rights (I assume). Unless you mean something else, like there's an 'Admin' mode I can run A:M under? Thanks for that, and the rest of your comprehensive reply. Yes, I can appreciate that CG is going to allow me to rework and refine the performance incrementally, rather than try and nail it out of the gate. I suspected that the auto-generated lip synch would be hit and miss (there's something similar in 2D), and that I'd need to tweak it afterwards - if scrubbing through the timeline and finding the mouth movements that best fit the sound/performance is a better method, I'm more than happy to try that out. I can open it, and I can see the phenomes. Interestingly, I still couldn't hear anything in the file you sent me (until I worked out what was wrong, see below). I could see the phenomes though. It I try to add another dope sheet within that file, however, I get the same result of it crashing. So, it really does appear that generating the dope sheet is what crashes me out. An already generated dope sheet works just fine. So, the above didn't directly do anything to fix this (the suggestion was to adjust the volume in the mixer - I could see the volume level was right up, and see the little bar moving up and down as if it was playing sound, but could hear nothing). However, that thread led me here... Which did at least solve the sound issue for me. If I go to properties and reduce the volume to 99% it works fine. So, in short, the dope sheet feature is still inaccessible for me, but at least I can now hear sound and can therefore try and lip synch with the newer method that's been suggested. Thanks again for everyone's help.

Thanks for your assistance @robcat2075, and for taking the time to reply. Really? I've been doing 2D and stop frame animation for almost 25 years and I've always used dope sheets (or the digital equivalents available now). What are people using in Hash A:M to work out their lip synching, if you don't mind me asking? Because if this is an obsolete method and there's something better then I'm all for trying it. As you appear to have worked out, I'm just following the lip synch exercise (Can You Say That?) from AoAM. Unfortunately, I don't. I've tried other sound files and that doesn't work either. They also look 'greyed out' in my UI, and not quite the same as in the AoAM (although that may be due to a change in the look of the UI). I've put a screen cap here https://imgur.com/fjNt8wE Thanks for that. Unfortunately, that hasn't made any difference. I've posted the PRJ file here. It's exactly as in the AoAM exercise - I haven't attempted anything different. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d-ilFnqXzmgOFczGIwnFfMNJJXl4VWvD/view?usp=sharing Again, any advice you could give would be most welcome.

Hi All, I'm new to Animation Master (I just started using it today), and I'm encountering a problem when I try to add a dope sheet. I can type a sentence, but when I OK that Animation Master crashes out. I've tried different sentences, and different sound files. I'm not sure if this is related, but when I scrub through any sound file on the timeline, I don't hear anything. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to hear something, but the tutorial seems to indicate I should hear the sound. A I doing something wrong? Do I need to configure something? Any help would be greatly appreciated!