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I just got sony vegas 9 and I was wondering can I make mouth movements like in Unrenewable and in Dark Knight: Chance. If you do know how to I would be very thankful if you could share your knowledge with me.
-Thank you
We don't have Vegas yet, but we'd suggest you use a program made for mouth animation, like Glue Face.
No you can't use Vegas to lipsync. I have Vegas Pro 9 and there is no tool of the such. Smeagol used Axagon composer and Nick Durron uses After Effects to do mouth animation. Sadly After Effects costs a lot of $$$ and Axagon.... good luck learning it.... So don't really delve into mouth animation like FF101's because that looks pretty bad. (Guys please don't start a flame war on FF101 here) So just stick to normal basic body movement and language for now. 
-Tejas VIM
Oh. I was asking because I just saw a video that claims to be using Sony Vegas pro 9 for lipsync.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAWoUi1lvoY
If you read the comments of that video it answers the question for you.
No I used Sony Vegas. I created a mask around the mouth and then animated the mask to move.
You'll have to know what shape you want before hand and plan the timings accurately and read into how to mask as it'll be helpful.
Thank You. 
I created a mask around the mouth and then animated the mask to move.
Masks sound like a pretty complicated tool for a video editor, so perhaps it's only available in the Pro version of Vegas. Have you checked your user manual?
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no. But I do have some friends who are quite good at this type of program
I'm... not quite sure how to respond to that.
A quick Google search for "creating masks in Sony Vegas" yielded a couple of tutorials. I'd check them out and see if you have the same tools in your version that they're using. If you do, once you know how to use them, it'll be easy enough to adapt it to fit your purpose.
Be careful, though. Anything but a straight-on shot seems like it would be pretty difficult to do, especially if the head is turning mid-speech.
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