Bubble Talk Animation?

Kriller77

Newbie Joined: Jan 21, 2012 11:24 Messages: 27 Offline

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Jan 21, 2012 11:26

Are there any titles or something would allow for you to make something look like it is speaking through bubble talk. Showing the words as he says them? I'm aware of the title with the bubbles, but I'm trying to have something say words quickly as he says them, instead of me drawing it slowly?

Any ideas?

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jan 21, 2012 12:23

Hi Kriller -

You can do that with the speech bubble templates, just by:

1. setting the duration of the title to match what is said
2. taking out the starting & ending effects of (a) the dialogue balloon & (b) the text (i.e. no effect)... or reducing the effect duration to almost nothing.

N.B. Durations for the balloon (.png) & text transitions need to be set separately.

Cheers - Tony
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Kriller77

Newbie Joined: Jan 21, 2012 11:24 Messages: 27 Offline

Jan 30, 2012 16:18

Thanks, but how do I make it where the bubble will show on the picture that I have? It seems when I put it on a different video track it just doesn't show up. Do you know what I mean?

Wnuk

Member Location: USA Joined: Oct 13, 2011 12:41 Messages: 141 Offline

Jan 30, 2012 16:25

Your picture needs to be in a track "above" the bubble. Such as picture in track 1 and bubble in track 2.

Grumpy

Member Location: Surrey, BC Joined: Jan 24, 2012 17:35 Messages: 50 Offline

Jan 30, 2012 16:27

It sounds like you are using the wrong tracks for video and effects.

The top track, #1 should have your main video media.

Everything you want on top of that, like text, must be placed below. Place the bubble on a video track below and it will show on top of your video.

Then you place your text below the bubble so the text will be on top of the bubble.

It's just layers, like looking up from below, you see the text, then the bubble, then the video.

Hope this is what you are needing. Richard

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jan 30, 2012 16:35

Wnuk & Richard -

Agreed - that's the problem!

Cheers - Tony
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Kriller77

Newbie Joined: Jan 21, 2012 11:24 Messages: 27 Offline

Jan 30, 2012 16:41

Boy, I'm not sure what I'm missing. It's still not working. I have the setup like this. Picture, with separate audio on track 1. Then I have a different guitar audio on the audio for track 2. Then I tried adding the bubble pip to track 2 video, but nothing shows up? Any ideas?

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jan 30, 2012 16:43

Are you previewing your work in Clip mode instead of the correct Movie mode?

Jeff

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Feb 01, 2012 07:17

Post restored - see thread: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/21425.page
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