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August 5, 2022
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Need Suggestions

  • August 5, 2022
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Hey Everyone!

 

I have recently started creating a lyric music video, I made the BG and am about to start animating text. It'd be nice if you guys could give me some suggestions as I'm not sure what font to use and what type of animations I should go for. Another thing that I'm not too sure about is the pauses in singing when the beat drops, should I add some sort of effect or animation in those gaps, or is the BG alone good enough?

 

Thanks, and please speak up if you dislike something I won't get offended I'm just trying to learn out here! 🙂

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OussK
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August 5, 2022

There is a better way to create an audio visualizer on after effects, as AE can automatically read your music wave and an animate the audio visualizer so my suggestion is to do a few searches and watch a few tutorials on how to create an audio visualizer as this will allow you create more interactive animation 

Daniel18sAuthor
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August 5, 2022

Hey, thanks for replying! I've actually watched a tutorial to create that wave motion just changed a few things to make it look how I wanted. Then, I added the little dots on the screen which I have animated the position of throughout the whole song. I'm overall happy with the waves but I might change the way the dots move. Do you have any tips on how I could possibly animate the movement of the dots a bit better and in sync with music?

 

Thanks

Daniel

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August 5, 2022

If you are happy with the background, render it using the Render Queue and the default High-Quality Output Module template. 

 

Create a separate comp for each phrase you want to animate, then edit that phrase. You have to fiddle with motion and composition so that the viewer's eye is drawn from one word to another by movement, color, and composition. Don't get too fancy, Words are easier to read if they come in from the right and moves to the left, but that can be overcome by clever transitions, color, and perspective. If you decide that one of the animated sections isn't working, you only have to redo that one shot and re-render it.  

 

Do not try and create the entire video in a single AE comp. You'll want to do your final editing and even sound mix in Premiere Pro. Doing everything in AE is tempting but terribly inefficient. I have done a lot of these kinds of motion graphics animations, and I learned a long time ago that it is far easier to animate a sentence or phrase, then edit the whole thing together in Premiere Pro than it is to try and do long projects in a single AE comp. I don't remember a single project in the last 20 years that had any single comp longer than about 10 or 12 seconds. Most were just a few words, and all the transitions were planned using transparency or done in Premiere Pro by overlapping shots. 

 

You will probably have to edit a dozen or so of this kind of animation to get one that really tells a story and holds the viewer's attention. It takes practice. 

Daniel18sAuthor
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August 5, 2022

Thanks for replying! That is defo some useful info 🙂 I'll keep that in mind. The text animation will defo take some time, I will experiment till I find the right ones but from looking at this and using your past experience do you have any fonts you'd suggest?

 

Thanks

Daniel

Daniel18sAuthor
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August 5, 2022

Sorry, the vid file was too big had to compress it. Here it is!