• Adobe After Effects

  Trying to animate music notes with audio (Example)

  Posted by Danny Brown on January 16, 2012 at 12:41 am

  Hey, I’m really new to AE CS5, but after looking up some kinetic typography tutorials, I decided to try and make one for my band. I’ve been doing pretty good and have learned a lot, but for the bridge of the song I wanted to have the music notes pop up with the music, since there’s no vocals in that part.

  Very similiar to this video.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sOfO8Ei1g
  at 2:12 – 2:24

  I’ve tried transcribing the part into a music notation software (Sibelius) and taking a picture of the notes it self, and the staff itself, but when I try to animate the notes on the timeline, it doesn’t let me animate it the same as if it were text. Not sure if this makes a difference, but the standard timeline color for text is red, and with the image its like a teal color. I can’t move it by frames, only by certain intervals which doesn’t work at all for what I’m trying to do.

  I hope this makes sense and hopefully someone could help me out or point me to someone/somewhere who can.

  Thanks so much!
  Danny

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  Andrew Somers replied 14 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Andrew Somers

  January 16, 2012 at 2:35 am

  What you are trying to do is actually pretty easy – to emulate what they did in that video you posted:

  1) Export from Sibelius two images of the same size – one with an empty staff, and the other with all your notes.

  2) Bring both into a comp – make the empty staff the bottom image.

  3) On the TOP image, add a MASK, then animate the MASK to reveal the notes.
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  Danny Brown

  January 18, 2012 at 9:06 pm

  Awesome thank you so much!

  I am gonna try this and i’ll let you know how it goes!

  Thanks again, really appreciate it
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  Danny Brown

  February 1, 2012 at 11:46 pm

  thanks again for your help!

  Here’s the final product. This is my first ever typography vid so don’t laugh 😛 The music notes part starts at 2:11

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW8dDHnLkt4

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  Andrew Somers

  February 8, 2012 at 3:46 am

  Nice first effort!! I especially like the “Letters on a string” effect you did at 1:15 – that’s worth making a tutorial about!

  🙂

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