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Scrolling, karaoke-style subtitles
Hi Guys
What would be the easiest way to create scrolling (left to right in bottom third) subtitles, where the currently spoken word is highlighted? I could do this manually of course but if there is a plugin or process that would make the job easier I’d appreciate any pointers!
Cheers
Lucas
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2 Replies
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I’d be running to a decent character generator and doing this tape to tape probably… It’s the highlighting part that’s the rub here. Boris’ Title Crawl would work well for the crawl, but there’s not a way I know of other than keyframing a ton of Glowing effects on a word by word basis to do this in FCP. Never heard of a plugin for this either… might contact BorisFX.com about whether or not Graffitti might work for this (Calligraphy is a light version of it).
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I’ve got an idea. Create the text on one layer. Copy it and place it on top. Change the color of the top layer to yellow or whatever. Then create a mask for the top layer that only allows one word to be shown. Won’t work exactly what you want. or you can just use the bouncing ball and keyframe the timeing. You might even be able to keyframe the mask to grow or shrink as the word passes through.
-trevor
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