Syncing animated text with song lyrics

[Al]

have you experimented with Animation>Keyframe Assistant>Convert Audio to Keyframes?

[Elorah]

From what I’ve read about that it only sets keyframes where the amplitude changes…. that really doesn’t help me….

[Filip Vandueren]

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; // lookahead

  if (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 marker

  ease(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

[Elorah]

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! :>

[Filip Vandueren]

Sorry, I don’t have v6 installed anymore, but it’s quite simple to recreate the effect:

1. just create a text-layer with mulitple words. fex. “I

[Elorah]

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

[Emiliano Grimaldi]

Hello Filip,

I was reading your post, and got very interested, but I tried to download the project file, but the link is not working anymore 🙁 could you post it back again?

Thank you,

Emiliano

http://www.emilianogrimaldi.it
https://emilianogrimaldi.blogspot.com

[Scott Green]

Hi, you couldn’t open and save this project file a newer version of AE for me to take a look at could you please? It won’t open in CS6 🙁

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[Scott Green]

I’ve managed to open the file, how can you make the words so that stay the colour that they are spoken? ie. make then stay white when they move on to the next word?

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[Pamela Kaadou]

hello… I have a similar project to the Karaoke project file you posted but the link isnt working anymore and i need to download it can you please resend it. Thank youu