Hello, I’m sorry for asking so many questions.
But could you explain to me how to make the lyrics of a song appear like in karaoke?
Thanks again very much.
One way is probably to create a (very long) image in Photoshop or GIMP with all of the lyrics, import that, and then set it up to scroll.
The other way is to use Text filters at the appropriate time to insert lyrics on another video track. I’m still a newcomer, but there might even be a way to change the color of the text at the appropriate time (maybe through keyframes)?
Also see this thread.
Subtitles is for making timed text, which is what you need for this. It has in its menu Generate Text on Timeline, but there is no way to control the color per word, which is what you usually need for karaoke. In the future, we may add the option to choose Simple, Typewriter, or Rich Text; but this will only help reduce some of the steps. With rich text, you can change color of a single word, but there is no way to control the timing for that, no keyframes for the text itself.
What you would need to do today is labor-intensive:
- Use Subtitles to set the overall timing of the lines of the lyrics. This will only provide a visual guide on the timeline.
- Use Timeline > New Generator (button on the toolbar) > Text > Rich
- Paste or manually enter a line of lyric
- Position it according to the starting time of a subtitle item
- Copy it
- Paste it for each additional word, one after the other on the same track
- Turn on Ripple mode on the timeline toolbar
- Edit each rich text clip
- Change the color of the current word: first word for the first text clip, second word for the second, and so on
- Trim the out point to adjust the duration of the current word
- Repeat steps 2 - 7 for each line
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If it’s for Karaoke Aegisub is made for it
A good start for karaoke
Some crazy-cool text effect for karaoke
Then you export the video and import in shotcut
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@Patrice Thank you so much.
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