Put your original avatar in a video

Click Add avatar in the toolbar to open Select avatar. The figure shows the right part of that screen.

1. 1Avatars you created have a blue Mine badge. Click ミサキ｜作例.
2. 2If you have not created one yet, Create my avatar opens Avatar Maker.
3. 3Manage my avatars opens the list for renaming and deleting.

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1. 1
   Action Avatars you created have a blue Mine badge. Click ミサキ｜作例.
2. 2
   Check If you have not created one yet, Create my avatar opens Avatar Maker.
3. 3
   Check Manage my avatars opens the list for renaming and deleting.

Check The avatar in this figure shows a note that a high-quality version is being prepared. In this demonstration it was chosen and used while that note was showing.

Clicking an avatar opens a confirmation view.

1. 1The whole avatar is shown large. Check the face, the shoulders and where the clothing is cut off.
2. 2The name and Upper body are shown at the lower left.
3. 3Click Confirm if it looks right, or Cancel to choose again.

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1. 1
   Check The whole avatar is shown large. Check the face, the shoulders and where the clothing is cut off.
2. 2
   Check The name and Upper body are shown at the lower left.
3. 3
   Action Click Confirm if it looks right, or Cancel to choose again.

Check After you click Confirm, an avatar clip five seconds long is placed on the timeline.

Click the voice button at the bottom of the editor (it first reads Choose a voice) to open Choose a voice.

1. 1For an avatar you created, the Recommended for this avatar section shown for provided avatars does not appear. In this demonstration the gender filter was already set to Female voices.
2. 2Click a voice in the list. Use Preview at the right end to listen. This demonstration chose the first voice in the list.
3. 3Choose the speaking style at the lower left.
4. 4Click Use this voice.

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1. 1
   Check For an avatar you created, the Recommended for this avatar section shown for provided avatars does not appear. In this demonstration the gender filter was already set to Female voices.
2. 2
   Action Click a voice in the list. Use Preview at the right end to listen. This demonstration chose the first voice in the list.
3. 3
   Check Choose the speaking style at the lower left.
4. 4
   Action Click Use this voice.

Check Listen with Preview before you choose.

Type a line in the field at the bottom and click Add to turn it into a speech clip. Then select the avatar clip and set body motion in the panel on the right.

1. 1Under Body motion (this clip), click each of Breathing, Sway and Twist and choose a strength. This demonstration used Low for all three.

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   Action Under Body motion (this clip), click each of Breathing, Sway and Twist and choose a strength. This demonstration used Low for all three.

Check Two lines were added. After choosing, check that each of the three fields shows what you chose; in this demonstration Sway went back to None once and was chosen again. Changing body motion means the avatar clip has to be generated again.

The avatar clip is placed five seconds long, so if the speech is longer the avatar disappears partway. Extend the clip to the end of the speech.

1. 1The right end of the speech clips (green) is where the speech ends.
2. 2Right-click the avatar clip (blue) and choose Extend end time to the playhead to stretch it to the red line. The figure shows the clip after extending and generating.
3. 3The background image (purple) has the same length. This demonstration chose a classroom image from the presets in Add media.

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   Check The right end of the speech clips (green) is where the speech ends.
2. 2
   Action Right-click the avatar clip (blue) and choose Extend end time to the playhead to stretch it to the red line. The figure shows the clip after extending and generating.
3. 3
   Check The background image (purple) has the same length. This demonstration chose a classroom image from the presets in Add media.

Check In this demonstration the playhead was at the end of the speech (11.76 seconds) after the second line was added. If yours is elsewhere, click the time ruler to move it first.

Select the avatar clip and click Generate this clip in the toolbar. A progress display appears, and when it finishes the clip shows Preview generated.

1. 1Click the time ruler to move the playhead and the preview shows that moment. Check the face and mouth, the edges of the shoulders and clothing, and the space above the head.
2. 2Check that the background reaches the edges of the frame.

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1. 1
   Check Click the time ruler to move the playhead and the preview shows that moment. Check the face and mouth, the edges of the shoulders and clothing, and the space above the head.
2. 2
   Check Check that the background reaches the edges of the frame.

Check In this demonstration generating the 12-second clip took about 50 seconds. The video was then exported as an MP4 with Export video in the Output menu; see the export guide for the detailed steps.