Particles with synthesia

[Robertomr00]

Hi, I was wondering if you could figure out how the particle effect of this video is made. Thank you in advance. This is the video: VIOLET MELODY - Patrik Pietschmann (Original Piano Music) - YouTube

[pr0jectile]

I started working on an After Effects project way back a couple of years ago when the Synthesia / visual effects trend wasn't popular.

I tried to automate the whole process in the making, so I could just directly load in MIDI and MP3 files, the script did the magic (all automated), ready to render and export.

I've been refining the project and have made it available for purchase for anyone who is interested in supporting the work (and further development of this project). I plan to expand it into something much bigger than just an After Effects project (like a web app or a real time visualisation software).

Check it out at https://www.visipiano.com/ if you are interested!

[chopenish]

I just opened the mask to show you the yellow line all over the keyboard 

[Roland Kahlenberg]

All of this can be done within AE and Expressions. The amount of work involved will of course be quite heavy but it's not too difficult. It all depends on whether you'll want to reuse this effect. If you're going to use and reuse it a fair bit then it's a good idea to invest the time into creating an Expression-driven template where you can easily create new collision styles/effects and have these populate across the 'final comp'.

[Phillip1234]

Hello everyone, I am referring to Towerguy's long comment. I followed almost all of his steps but I couldn't manage to do the following:

- Now, in your Main comp: make a solid and add Particular to it and move it below your video layer

- Using the pen tool draw a tight mask around the keyboard only.

Now go to your Particular settings and set it as per my earlier post using Precomp 2 as the Layer emitter.

What's the main comp? And how do I add Particular? What's your earlier post?

Can anyone elaborate on this? Thanks so much

[Towerguy]

Hi. The main comp is the composition that you started with and that the precompositions are in.

To add particular create a solid and then add the Trapcode Particular Effect to the solid.

"Using the pen tool draw a tight mask around the keyboard only" means you should already have a copy of the synthesia video as the top layer in your main comp  draw the mask on this layer. In order the layers you should have are:

Video

Particular

Precomp 2 (turn off the eyeball - make it 3D)

Precomp

Black Solid (you'll need to make this)

The earlier post was (this is an edited version)

In Emitter settings: Particles/sec very high (say 24,000); Emitter Type - Layer; Layer Emitter - set to Precomp 2 (turn off the eyeball and make it 3D), Layer Sampling - Current Time. Then it's down to creating the particles to look and behave as you want.

Is that clearer?

[Towerguy]

Sorry, the Layer Sampling should be "Still" not "Current Time".

[Phillip1234]

Hey Towerguy, thanks for your quick reply. I managed to do all your steps now, but I don't see anything happening with the video in the end... Can you maybe spot the problem?

If I can repay your help in any way, please let me know!

[Towerguy]

What is the Medium Grey magenta Alpha Inverted solid, it shouldn't be there? Where is the Precomp Layer? You seem to have a background on your video (the grey lines running down each octave) - have you masked out the piano keyboard on the top layer?

[Phillip1234]

[Phillip1234]

[Mo Moolla]

Maybe we should open a Particular thread?

[Mo Moolla]

Maybe Particular was used. Easily recreated but will take time. Unless, and I have my suspicions on this, a simple more automated piece of particle generating software was used. I won't mention any names

[Nasirul5E1D]

Brother Plz help me any one..........How to make this flash lite effect

 

[emmanuel5C06]

Those light effect are from paricular he just added a glow on the basic synthesia effect.

[Guest]

Hello there,
I understand how to create particles with particular and now, I have an aditional question to this topic. I am curious how the midi notes can be editet? This looks amazing and I think this can not be done with a simple filter. Here are two examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgyOZxIw0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md6c6aEP4Cs

Does anyone have an idea, how this is made?