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Animating words to come out of mouth
Hello,
I’m making an independent music video. I need to have lyrics coming out of the performers mouth. Some of the lyrics will just go off into the air, and others will go into peoples ears. If I can get any tips on how to achieve this in after effects I would GREATLY appreciate it. Please let me know if I need to make myself more clear.
Thank you!-Patrick
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What part, specifically, are you unclear on?
When someone asks a question like this, it’s hard to know whether we need to explain all of After Effects from the beginning or…
In the absence of specifics, I’ll just point you to the section in After Effects Help about animating text and the overview of compositing.
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Todd provides good advice. You’ll likely need to use the Path Options for the text animation, so look for information on that in the help files.
One of the very first videos I saw done in After Effects circa 1994 used type in a similar fashion, though After Effects had only recently been acquired by Adobe and text based animations were tricky to pull off back then.
I think the video was of a Seattle band performing “Sitting on Top of the World”…
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I have personally never used after effects. Though my friend, who has, will be helping me out with this specific job. However he does not know how to accomplish what I have in mind.
Basically we need to figure out a way to visually show words coming out of the performers mouth. It should look very natural. For example, the letters would start off small as they come out, and then expand.We were unable to find any examples of this online. If you can point us in the right direction that would be great! I’ll go over the info you have already provided with my friend for now.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate it! -
If you’ve never used After Effects before, you really need to go through the basic learning materials before you try to tackle a real project. I recommend that you start here to learn the basics.
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This exists and it’s a patented technique called ReadSpeak (https://www.readspeak.com). Just be careful because the company may sue you.
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I think I know just what you’re after. As I am after the same effect.
I’m still working on it and I got to about as far is this person has shown:
Figured I’d just link it rather than copy and repeat.
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