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Syncing animated text with song lyrics
I’m working on a specific project and need some specific instruction. I’m fairly new to After Effects so I don’t know what all it’s capable of, but, basically, I’m needing to create compositions with audio where I can animate the text so that the animated text corresponds to the lyrics being sung in the song (a la karaoke, but better looking and more sophisticated). Until now, it’s been a tedious project where I import a backgroud graphic…type in each line of text…then preview and time the song phrase in Premiere…then manually set keyframes for that phrase in the composition….and then do it again and again…usually 20+ times per song. And I’ve just been using the opacity to signify when to sing the phrase….but I would like to use size to signify when to sing each word or syllable. Obviously doing this by hand would be very labor intensive. I’m looking for something that would help me establish the keyframes more easily. I read over the tutorial on this site about syncing animation with audio for the drummer, but I was *completely* lost. Half of the stuff I didn’t even know what he was talking about. Is this something I would be able to do in AE more easily than I’ve been doing it? And, if not, is there some plugin or other software that will work with Adobe’s software that I could use to do this? I would appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction….thanks
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have you experimented with Animation>Keyframe Assistant>Convert Audio to Keyframes?
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From what I’ve read about that it only sets keyframes where the amplitude changes…. that really doesn’t help me….
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Hi,
I made a litlle project file you can alter:
- Type in your text.
- set up the text-animation with the desired effect (I used fill brightness +100% and (110%,120%) scaling)
- in the advanced setting of the range selector: units=index / Based on = Words / Shape = Smooth
- Range selector: start=0 / end=1 / offset gets an expression:
transitionTime = 0.5 ; // try to smooth the effect in 0.5 seconds (won't happen if the markers are too closely spaced)
t=time + transitionTime/2; // lookaheadif (thisLayer.marker.numKeys) { // catch the error if there are no markers
nearestMark=thisLayer.marker.nearestKey(t);ind=(nearestMark.index - (nearestMark.time>t)); // ind is the index of the last marker we've passed in the timeline, or 0
tim=thisLayer.marker.key (ind>1 ? ind : 1).time ; // tim is the time of the last markerease(time,tim-transitionTime/2,tim+transitionTime/2,ind-2,ind-1); // a little interpolation to smooth it out
} else {
-1
}
just record markers to your text-layer, the script in the offset-parameter makes the animation-offset jump to the next word with every marker.
Now all you have to do is finetune the marker-positions
You can duplicate that text layer as often as you need it (one per sentence)The project-file should speak for itself.
Right/control-click ont his movie and choose play to see a sample:
here’s the project-file:
karaoke.aep -
wow – ok, that’s exactly what I need….except that it looks like it’s written in Greek! lol j/k But I’ll follow your directions as best I can. Do you think you could repost the AE file saved for version 6.0? I wasn’t able to open the one you posted because it was done it 6.5….thanks! :>
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Sorry, I don’t have v6 installed anymore, but it’s quite simple to recreate the effect:
- just create a text-layer with mulitple words. fex. “I
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Filip – you’re my hero! lol That’s *exactly* what I’ve been wanting to do. I still have some specific questions and was wondering if I could correspond with you privately. If you don’t want to post your email here, I’ll post mine and then hope to hear from you…..:>
elorahd@yahoo.com
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