How to make Karaoke Titles?

engr wrote on 7/27/2012, 9:59 PM
Hi folks, i am trying to make a karaoke video with the moving blue under layer of the text that follows the singing. Any idea how to do it?

I want the text to appear first, then the blue highlight will appear to the tune of the song. I know its to do with keyframing but i was wondering if i could add one more layer (blue media) and somehow multiply it with the text below. However this method causes the rest of the track below to be affected as well.

Please help, thanks!

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Former user wrote on 7/28/2012, 7:11 AM
If I understand your question correctly...

Track 3 - text
Track 2 - blue highlight box
Track 1 - video

Note - If needed, you can adjust the track transparency for the blue as needed to show some of the video through.

Note - Using the Event Pan/Crop for the blue media event: Disable the "Lock Aspect Ratio" button and set "Stretch to fill frame" to "No" so that you can adjust its size and position for key framing as needed..

Jim

engr wrote on 7/28/2012, 9:20 PM
Hi jdw,
I'm trying to do the stuff below where the text itself changes colour



Former user wrote on 7/29/2012, 7:54 AM
No problem. The technique is almost the same. The following will stack two of the same text events (having two color themes). Using Event / Pan crop you will "wipe" from one event to the other to reveal an alternate text treatment.

Track 1 - text (white with black border)
Track 2 - text (blue with white border)
Track 3 - video

1. Create your text event in blue with a "draw outline" of white.
2. Copy and paste this event with paste options of "Create a new copy of source media."
3. Place this event on the track directly above of the original.
4. Edit this new text event to change the text to white with a black border.
5. Using the Event Pan/Crop for the for the text event created in step 4 (track 1):
5a. Disable the "Lock Aspect Ratio" button and set "Stretch to fill frame" to "No"
5b. Disable both the "Lock aspect ratio" and "size about center".
5c. Set keyframes as needed by dragging the left side of the bounding box to time the text reveal.

If you would like to match the sample video link you provided that has more than one line of text being revealed, you would need to stack another set of text events as needed.

It probably sounds more complicated than it really is. Once you've done a couple of text blocks, it will become much easier. Here's a link to the example file I created:

Download example Karaoke Title Veg File

Jim

engr wrote on 7/30/2012, 7:23 AM
Awesome thanks jdw! I managed to do it with masking but its sooooo much labour. i like yr method better.