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Hi there!
[Introduction - skip to next paragraph for my actual question(s)]
I'm pretty much just getting started with Fusion and Resolve. I'm mostly coming from a pure hobbyist background, having some extended experience using Blender as well as various shareware NLEs. I have already created some simple motion graphics in Fusion and now want to move on to a bigger project which is going to be a "Lyrics Video" for a band I play drums for. I had already pretty much completed a first draft of this in Blender but my bandmates didn't really like the 3D style I went for (because that's what I knew how to do). Instead, we're now looking to creating something similar to the videos linked to at the end of this post.
So, essentially I want to animate (2D-)text in sync with music. Here are some questions/roadblocks I ran into so far:
Cheers,
Oliver
Some examples of the general style I'm aiming for (basically, most of the results you will get when searching YouTube for "Official Lyrics Video"):
These are a little more extreme/elaborate (you might want to mute the sound if you're not into Metal, though ):
[Introduction - skip to next paragraph for my actual question(s)]
I'm pretty much just getting started with Fusion and Resolve. I'm mostly coming from a pure hobbyist background, having some extended experience using Blender as well as various shareware NLEs. I have already created some simple motion graphics in Fusion and now want to move on to a bigger project which is going to be a "Lyrics Video" for a band I play drums for. I had already pretty much completed a first draft of this in Blender but my bandmates didn't really like the 3D style I went for (because that's what I knew how to do). Instead, we're now looking to creating something similar to the videos linked to at the end of this post.
So, essentially I want to animate (2D-)text in sync with music. Here are some questions/roadblocks I ran into so far:
- Can I somehow load an audio or MIDI file into Fusion in a way that would allow me to (visually) line up keyframes with the waveform or individual MIDI events/notes? I've already found mention of the MIDI Extractor tool but am unclear on whether it could help me with that task and if so, how. Are there any other ways to import some kind of "cue sheet" (containing markers at timecodes) into Fusion?
- Expanding on the previous question: Can I actually preview(/prehear) this in Fusion for tweaking, i.e. play video and sound in sync? Or would I have to go back and forth between Fusion and Resolve for this?
- I have at least 70 cues in the lyrics of the song I'm doing (sometimes a whole line will appear at once, sometimes it will be broken up into individual words). What would be the best way to represent this in Fusion? Should each cue be a distinct Text tool or should I only have as many as I need to be visible concurrently (possibly multiplied by the number of different text styles I will be using) and reuse them? Sounds like it would get messy either way... Are there any best practices for this kind of thing?
- Are there maybe any tutorials out there on how to do either exactly this kind of project or at least something sufficiently similar?
- Am I getting it all wrong? Is Fusion maybe not the right tool for this job after all?
Cheers,
Oliver
Some examples of the general style I'm aiming for (basically, most of the results you will get when searching YouTube for "Official Lyrics Video"):
(Rolling Stones - Paint it Black)
(Pink! - True Love)
(Hakuna Matata)
These are a little more extreme/elaborate (you might want to mute the sound if you're not into Metal, though ):
(Stuck Mojo - Verbal Combat)
(Onslaught - Chaos is King)
(Exodus - Salt the Wound)
(Exodus - Blood in, Blood out)