I keep playing with a “T” sound and I keep changing it! Sometimes it sounds smoother to me without it, but then it feels missing. I’ll keep playing, and post something for others to use when I feel good about. I can move this to the other TROS thread because I don’t think it’s something for this edit.
This is going to sound like a stupid question, but… how exactly does one make these adjustments to mouth movement? What kind of software does it require?
Not a stupid question at all! Here’s a quick tutorial that pretty well matches what I did. Basically, I didn’t actually change the mouth movement (no deepfake or anything). In the film she says “Rey Skywalker”, and the camera lingers for a bit. Fortunately, her head moves very little during the shot. So I essentially snipped out the part where she says “Skywalker”. I found a frame from the end of the word “Skywalker” where her mouth closely matches the end of the word “Rey”. Then a bit of rotoscoping and motion tracking in After Effects finished the job. Again, it helps that he head moves very little in the shot.