Charles -

I hope it's a very short song! Luckily, they have a habit of repeating themselves, so you'll be able to duplicate some motion paths.

Check out Cranston's tutorial on PiP Motion. It'll help get you started... http://www.youtube.com/user/PDtoots#p/u/10/4gPt7y6ipo0

Cheers - Tony
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Tony,

It is short. It is Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer--around 2 minutes. I have done minimal PIP with motion, but I can't wrap my head around trying to do it to a beat.

Any more thoughts besides the one tutorial?

Charles

Charles -

Possibly a simpler way to do it, rather than have the ball bouncing is to have it appearing instead... might be a ball over the word or a line under the word.

Rudolph does have exactly the same rhythms repeated, so copying & pasting will help save you work!

I'll give it some more thought.

Cheers - Tony
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What about this thought:

I have a green screen room available to me. I could make a movie with only the lyrics and music, then project the movie onto the green screen.

I could then take a ball attached to a green stick of some sort and make the "follow the bouncing ball" movements myself.

Would this work?

Charles

Hi Charles,

Tony has pretty much covered it. But here’s 2 more cents worth.

I haven’t found a “easy” way to accomplish what you are attempting. But here are a couple of possible options.
(See the short streaming video example attached).

The first method, as Tony suggested, is to use PIP Motion and Key frames to animate Mitch Miller’s bouncing ball.
(Let’s just pause a second here to give that giant deafening whoosh sound of the Mitch Miller reference going over the younger heads, a chance to to die down at bit, hahaha)
If you’re not all that familiar at working with Key Frames, then… well… it’s like that old joke…
Visitor: Excuse me sir. How do I get to Carnegie Hall?
New Yorker: Practice.

An easier method may be to type out each phrase of the lyrics of the song in the Title track. Then while monitoring the song in real time play back, create a Split in the Title track, as each word appears in the song.
Then open each of these Split segments in the Text track, and in Title Designer, change the color of the appropriate word. (You could do this without using the Chroma Key method you suggested)

Both methods are indeed do-able (as demonstrated in the attached video), but they do require one to roll up their sleeves and set some time aside. Because both methods are a bit labor intensive (depending on your definition of Labor and Intensive).
However, as Tony suggested, for repeated phrases, simply using Copy/Paste could save a lot of extra work, and some minor tweaking may be all that’s needed for repeated phrases.


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Cranston,

You are the man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will find the time and the intensiveness to get this done. (unless you have a paypal account and want to charge me to do it)

Charles

Hahaha, you’ll get it Charles. Just takes a little practice and experimentation.
Good Luck!
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