Adobe After Effects Help Thread

[K!R4]

im just curious after im done producing kara effect, whats my next step... export the video with the kara effect to ready it for encoding through AE? how you do this? because im almost done doing afx for a series im working on and dont know whats the next thing i should do.. advance thanks for any replies.

anyway, a big thank you to pichu for providing us those wonderful After-Effects Karaoke Generator (scripts); it made our life easier for anyone who has deal knowlegde with graphic designs but dont know anycoding, and crash thanks for making the tutorials.

edit: thanks thefluff, those links helped.

[TheFluff]

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...2&postcount=42
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=48608

hth

[pichu]

Originally Posted by crash-kun

Heres a question. Is there a setting somewhere that adds workspace setup to saved files? I've noticed that sometimes when I open another's file it will change my setup and other times it wont. I have a very unique setup and its quite annoying to have to reset it all up because I open someone else's file to help them. I suppose I should make a preset for it but my question still stands.

You can save workspace in AE, but it only applies to your global settings, in which you can bring up that perspective later on. It's not project-related.

Oh yes, trapcode form per-syllable karaoke actually works. It takes about 30min to render it (4 X 3.8Ghz cores, 4 processes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvHE08bTigE&fmt=18

Text Animator apparently acts on the layer property, so you don't have to precompose. Read the youtube comments. It's a lot easier than I thought

The next goal is to fix my fixed line-timing; it's broken when I shifted from 0.4x to 0.5. It will make the layer animations more ideal. :/

[_Anakyn_]

pichu, could you please upload the .aep so we can have a look at it? I'm pretty lost right now because I've got no idea what 'romaji2,' 'romajiform,' and 'romajiform2' is, dude.

[crash-kun]

Whats confusing you _Anakyn_? That video is just showing a new feature that pichu added (a damn handy one I might add)

[Retsinis]

I searched around for a while but couldn't find an actual answer, so maybe one of you can point me in the right direction.

I've been playing around with after effects, and using pichu's script to time my .ass with it, all is well except that some lines overlap each other.

Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss the big bold 60px font that tells me I'm an idiot, and have to do it "this way"? I'm not quite sure!

[crash-kun]

Originally Posted by Retsinis

and using pichu's script to time my .ass with it

Your timing your karaoke with After Effects?! Don't do that, Aegisub is designed to time subtitles and karaoke, not After Effects.

Anyway if lines overlap then that means that you timed the lines to overlap. Transitions often make lines overlap since they tack on a little extra time to the front and back of the line. So either your transitions need to be faster, or you timed the karaoke wrong.

[Retsinis]

No I time them with ASS, using pichu's script to import my timed ass karaoke, and they don't overlap in the timing. I see that it is probably the transitions doing it, thanks! I'll check that out ^_^

Edit: are you the same crash who made those afx video tuts?

[_Anakyn_]

crash, I know, I know what Trapcode Form is, but I got no clue about how I apply the effect, meaning to which layers I should apply it or which values I should set, cuz in his KRK layer there are 4 different layers and 2 of them contain the Form effect (instead of only one, for example). Just wanted to take a general look at the project because I can't make a general idea of it only having the codes :-) I'd need just some simple caps, I think I'd be able to handle the rest of it ;D

[crash-kun]

Originally Posted by Retsinis

Edit: are you the same crash who made those afx video tuts?

Yes I am.

Originally Posted by _Anakyn_

crash, I know, I know what Trapcode Form is, but I got no clue about how I apply the effect, meaning to which layers I should apply it or which values I should set, cuz in his KRK layer there are 4 different layers and 2 of them contain the Form effect (instead of only one, for example). Just wanted to take a general look at the project because I can't make a general idea of it only having the codes :-) I'd need just some simple caps, I think I'd be able to handle the rest of it ;D

Well idk if pichu will give his aep but I can break down how I think the project file is set up based on his KRK info.

add('romaji')
.l('romaji')
.a('Animator 1',true)
.s('enabled',false)
.p('transform.opacity')

add('romaji'): This is a text layer.

.a('Animator 1',true): Makes the syllables dissapear as they are said so that 'romaji2' can kick in with the syllabes appearing.

.s('enabled',false): Hides the layer (the layer does not need to be visible when it is set as a form layer map.

.p('transform.opacity'): Make the line fade in as a transition effect.

add('romaji2')
.l('romaji',true)
.a('Animator 1',true)
.a('Animator 2',true)
.s('enabled',false)

add('romaji2'): This is a text layer

.l('romaji',true): Generates a layer for every syllable (needed for this effect).

.a('Animator 1',true): Not sure what does what but one of these makes the syllable appear and disappear (maybe split between both?).
.a('Animator 2',true): See above.

.s('enabled',false): Again hides the layer.

add('romajiform')
.l('romaji')
.s('effect("Form")(57)','layer','romaji' )
.p('effect("Form")')

add('romajiform'): This is a Solid with Form applied to it.

.s('effect("Form")(57)','layer','romaji' ): This is the new feature that allows you to make this effect. It will set the layer on Forms layer setting (its the 57th property in Form) to the corresponding karaoke layer that the script generates (very useful ).

.p('effect("Form")'): Makes all the keyframes in the Form effect normalized to line timings.

add('romajiform2')
.l('romaji',true)
.s('effect("Form")(57)','layer','romaji2 ')
.p('effect("Form")', true)

add('romajiform2'): This is a Solid with Form applied to it.

.l('romaji',true): Again generates a layer for every syllable.

.s('effect("Form")(57)','layer','romaji2 '): Again sets the layer on Forms layer setting to the corresponding karaoke layer that the script generates.

.p('effect("Form")', true): Makes all the keyframes in the Form effect normalized to syllable timing.



So yea thats the basic idea of how this karaoke works.
If any of these are wrong please correct me pichu

[pichu]

Originally Posted by _Anakyn_

pichu, could you please upload the .aep so we can have a look at it? I'm pretty lost right now because I've got no idea what 'romaji2,' 'romajiform,' and 'romajiform2' is, dude.

Why must I do everything for you kids? ._.

http://stats.pichu.org/form-sample.aep

I'll fix fixed-timing later on... I'm not sure which part is broken, and which part is working... The aep uses relative timings.

[vDrag0n]

I started on AFX (again, tried a few times before nothing good). Now my question is, is there any way to CENTER the karaoke at top? I'm using Shinji's script and i applied the same pos to all lines but each line is different lenght so it kinda looks weird. Is there some expression or something to center them?

[Deddo]

Set the position and fontsize by using the longest line as an example, then apply the properties to the other lines. They will all look okay. Some very short lines may need some tweaks if you want them to look bigger. Don't forget to hide spaces between syllables before starting to work.

If you are mastered enough, try using pichu's. It doesn't have a space problem like that and its karaoke generation proccess is like "prepare the template->generate->no need to edit anything" (of course if you know what you are doing. the only thing you might need to edit is scene timed color changes and things like that, pretty easy ^^)

[crash-kun]

Originally Posted by vDrag0n

Now my question is, is there any way to CENTER the karaoke at top? I'm using Shinji's script and i applied the same pos to all lines but each line is different lenght so it kinda looks weird. Is there some expression or something to center them?

Just center justify the text?

[Kyrie-Senpai]

hi, have a question about the script krk056b as active this step?:

in a part the tutorial is activated but what button is
Thx

PD: http://code.google.com/p/aftereffectskrk/ first tutorial

[crash-kun]

Originally Posted by Kyrie-Senpai

hi, have a question about the script krk056b as active this step?
in a part the tutorial is activated but what button is
Thx

Could you be a little more specific, I'm not sure what the question is.

[vDrag0n]

Originally Posted by crash-kun

Could you be a little more specific, I'm not sure what the question is.

I think he is asking what Numpad button to press to enter the Brackets comment.

Originally Posted by crash-kun

Just center justify the text?

I noticed that my question was pretty stupid after asking. Anyway i put Shinji's script on hold for now. Thanks to your tutorials and pichus god like scripting i'm using his script now.

So thanks to both of you

Can you use Effects with the script or only Text Animators? Also i tried to make the lines fly in with an position Animator but the script completely ignored it, or i did it wrong.

[crash-kun]

Originally Posted by vDrag0n

I think he is asking what Numpad button to press to enter the Brackets comment.

Well if that is the question then you don't press a numpad button at all, simply double click the marker and the window will appear.

Originally Posted by vDrag0n

Can you use Effects with the script or only Text Animators? Also i tried to make the lines fly in with an position Animator but the script completely ignored it, or i did it wrong.

Yes you can use effects, and you can make it fly with a position animator, so I'm not really sure what you did to make it not work. Keep in mind, that the tutorials I made are out of date with .56 and above, so following the tutorial exactly will result in broken karaoke :P Maybe if I get bored I'll replace the videos with new ones.

[Kyrie-Senpai]

I want to know how to activate that option this picture
thx u.u

[Zwill]

Originally Posted by Kyrie-Senpai

I want to know how to activate that option this picture
thx u.u

I'm not really sure what you wanna know, but to set/create a marker you'll have to press the * key on the numpad.