Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017: Karaoke Style Video with colour fill to follow text

[Ciwan1859]

Hello everyone

I am a total n00b to Adobe Premiere Pro, but I have worked Video Editing before on Final Cut so I understand the basics. Even then though, I wouldn't know how to make what I'm after in either Premiere Pro or Final Cut.

Basically, I want to create a lyric video. The video will naturally have the following:

1. A background (static image in my case).
2. The music track
3. Text snippets

That is all. There is no bouncing ball ..etc

But, as the artist starting singing, I would like to fill the text with a different colour. And the speed of the fill should sync with the artist's singing of the word. I guess similar to this, but I'm not sure how good the syncing on that is, since we're not hearing the track.

Are there tutorials paid or free on how to achieve this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

[Ann Bens]

You can do this in Premiere but will be a lot of work.

Best to do this is AE.

[eikonoklastes · Accepted solution]

Here is an easy way to do it in Premiere:

- Create your lyrics as Titles

- Create a Color Matte and set it to your preferrred highlight colour.

- In the Timeline, place the Color Matte over the Title

- Apply a Set Matte effect to the Color Matte.

     - Use for Matte: Alpha Channel

     - Take Matte From Layer: (layer/track with the title)

- Apply a Crop effect to the Color Matte

- Set keyframes on the 'Right' parameter according to the timing of the song.

While this is an easy approach, it is still a lot of manual work, so get ready to set a million keyframes. It wouldn't be much quicker in After Effects since the general approach is the same.

Here is what the setup looks like:

An alternate approach, possibly easier, is to not use the Crop effect, but to use a Mask on the Opacity of the Color Matte.

It might be easier to just drag the mask around than to keyframe the Crop numbers.

Here is what that setup looks like:

[Ciwan1859]

Thanks eikonoklastes​, I'll have a go and report back

[Ciwan1859]

Hi eikonoklastes​

So I have just had a go with this, but I am a little confused.

If I set a start point for my mask,and then an end point, how do I tell Adobe Premier to animate the mask from the start point to the end point?

Surely I don't have to do this frame by frame?

I have things setup like your 2nd screenshot, but I can't find a way of animating the mask smoothly over the the words "here is a potential line"

How can I do that?

Thanks

[nickyess]

An easier, cleaner and very much quicker way is using the tint effect on the title tracks, activating masks on them, one for a line.

The following step-to-step work to do is much simpler than it appears:

1. Add tint effect on a title

2. set white color assignment (and/or the black one if needed)

3. add a mask on the tint effect (and eventually set such its parameters)

4. edit borders of the created mask, including first the FIRST ENTIRE line to mask

5. play back on first sung part, and manually back some frames before

6. Turn on the stopwatch of the tracing mask (don't know how's exactly named this parameter, anyway is the first one)

7. move the mask near (but outer) the first letter of the text line

8. playback until the next syllable

9. move the mask covering first sung syllable

10. automatically premier add a new keyframe on the timeline relative to the tracing mask

11. go on like this until you cover the whole line

12. repeat step 3-11 for every line of the track

The more syllables you cover, the more accurate the result will be.

Or, you could decide to create keyframes one word at a time instead of working with syllables.

One of the nice things about this process is that the created masks solidally follow all the movements of the texts they are associated with, so you can animate them as you wish without danger of losing this highlight effect, or manually make infinitive corrections.

Refer to images to best understand some explained numbered steps:

I learned this by viewing this excellent video here: Create Text Karaoke Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 - YouTube

hope is helpful

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