[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

[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

[Filip Vandueren]

If you nmean by letterboxed, rendering to a movie that allready has the black bars, the answer is most definitly no!

For DVD you should always render out anamorphic material (squished as you say)

As Angus points out you have two options for creating the comps.

[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

[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

[Filip Vandueren]

You can always enable pixel aspect ratio correction, that way AE crudely stretches the pixels untill they look square; so it stretches a 720*576 D1 widecsreen to 1024*576; but only for display-purposes.
The resulting render will still be 720*576 and the preview does some nasty jaggies (like nearest neighbour scaling in photoshop)

[Filip Vandueren]

can you post an example

[Filip Vandueren]

If your source material is MP3, then it will click.

Convert audio-footage to aiff or waves without any codecs and reimport them.

[Filip Vandueren]

You probably are de-interlacing the footage and that gives the pixelation.

[Filip Vandueren]

HI Mirek,

the reason there are so many keyframes is because I converted the expressions to keyframes, that’s much faster to render.

If you change the animation of the leader, you should delete all those keyframes and reactivate the expressions of the followers (clik on the = sign next to the stopwatch)

There are some controls in the effects window of the leader that alllow you to set the wigglyness and the delay between each bubble