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  • Help on Dynamic Lyrics Glow

    Posted by Carlos Fantano on September 2, 2026 at 1:03 pm

    Good evening, I was wondering if there’s a good way to manipulate text outline colors dynamically to mimic an 80s karaoke singalong style (where the text outline glows for a moment on the currently-sung syllable)? So far I’ve only achieved color shift using duplicate layer and event pan, but doing so with outline glow would make the whole sentence glows, which isn’t something I want. TIA!

    Silviu Negoita
    replied 18 hours, 49 minutes ago
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  • Silviu Negoita

    September 2, 2026 at 1:54 pm

    Yeah, you can do this by duplicating the text event, adding a Glow effect to the duplicate, and then using a mask to isolate the syllable you want to highlight. Keyframe the mask’s position/size and the glow intensity or color so it follows each syllable as it’s sung. This way, the rest of the sentence stays unchanged.This video shows the masking technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3zhULA6ztU

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