hey so I've been thinking about music lyric videos
and how I'm not really much of an animator myself so i wanted to find
a DIY approach to creating them with tools that you already have access to and can save you a
lot of precious time all of which is going to come together and create something like this
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so in preparation, you're going to need a pen or paint a sheet of paper ideally the biggest that
you can find a camera and in this case I actually ended up using my iPhone and of course, it wouldn't
be a music video if it didn't have a music track. We of course used Artlist.io as we know that all
the tracks are royalty-free. We found an amazing song by a band called WEARETHEGOOD this is what
we're going to be doing our lyrics too and what's even better is that the atlas even provides the
lyrics so we can give it a once-over and make sure that we're writing down the right thing and of
course a free copy of HitFilm to do your editing. It's that's it that's everything you need what
you're first going to do is write out your lyrics or dialogue on the sheet of paper use bold fixed
strokes to make sure that everything is clear as possible whiteboard pens or chunky biro pens are
perfect for this leave large gaps in between the lines of dialogue so you can float between
them later now's the time to throw in your earbuds and play the song or dialogue film along to feel
the rhythm and get your timing right add in some creative camera movement to really emphasize some
of these lyrics, I ended up filming mine line by the line just to give everything the proper attention
it needed. So after filming all your lyrics we're going to come into HitFilm I've already got my
projects set up and the shots I want in the place that I feel like they're most fitted however the
the first thing that you're going to notice is that we have far too much and we can't see the footage
behind that, i want to use it for the music video so the first step is going to be masking the area
that I want to keep I'll go up to the pen tool and then just mask around the area now it doesn't
have to be anything too crazy it's just going to be a rough mask that you can use now I did lie
a little bit we are going to use a couple of keyframes to make sure that our mask sticks
around only the text layer so what I'm going to do for this is go into the controls panel go into
mask and under transform, I will add a keyframe by the mo by I'll add a keyframe by the path and
then but as it kind of like goes through i will just drag some of these over the area
and let it kind of like animate over cool there's nothing in this area so I'll drag it all the
way down now we're cropping some out so i'll grab it back and this doesn't have to be clean it
is just like I said it's a garbage mat it's kind of just a rough idea of the area itself
cut off the 's' there so and then yeah cool bring that back up nice so that's the first step doing
a rough mask around the area and the text that you want to keep you'll then have to repeat this
throughout the video to make sure that you're getting the right areas that you want to keep
and uh yeah once you've gone through your timeline and you have all the lyrics cut out and mask it's
now time to apply a couple of effects and then we have our final thing the first effect that
we're going to use is called a luminance key what a luminance key does is eliminate either
the highlights or shadows of an image so as you can see right now it's actually removed
the dark text of our image but if we go into the key type and change it to key out the brighter
now all we have is just our text because I want my text is to be in a shade of white I'm actually
going to apply an invert and drag that on cool and immediately gets turned into white now as
you can see there is kind of like a rough outline on most of our text and I kind of
want to remove some of that so the last thing that we'll add is a matte cleaner throw that on and all
we're going to do is just choke in a little bit of those details just so we have enough
to you know to sort out that little bleed this is looking good and I feel like what we could do is
maybe add a little bit of a wobble to our edges so i'm going to use a edge distortion for this
now edge distortion is only available in HitFilm Pro right now but you can download the demo try it
out for yourself and see what you think this is just an added flourish you don't need this to
create the effect okay and I'll just change the preset to something like a small wobble
maybe that's a little bit too intense maybe subtle line wiggle all that's going to do is
just distort the image a little bit just to bring out the image a little bit more I will apply
a drop shadow and just throw that on that that's pretty okay i might change the direction just
ever so slightly just so it's underneath and then just soften it ever so slightly just so it's there
now this is all going to come down to the type of footage that you are going to be using
but changing the blend mode is definitely going to help it go for something like a soft light
maybe a little bit too much but definitely an exclusion or maybe an overlay blend mode would
be better fitting for you times like this that you need to experiment with the type of footage
that you're using and find a style that is really working for you now to save myself a bit of time
what we can do is then grab all of these effects right click and then create a preset
give it an appropriate name save it and down the bottom of our effects window under presets
we can now find this effect and drag that onto any other lyric that we have the only thing that
we need to change is going into the blend mode and setting the appropriate blend type
something else I found in shots like this where it's a little bit darker is to duplicate the lyric
layer and then set that to a different blend type for example if i take this one and hold ctrl drag
it is underneath to create a copy now you can see it's already brighter but maybe a little bit too
bright but if I go into the blend mode and set this to screen and then dial down the opacity
you can see that it's kind of like highlighted in different areas now or maybe go into soft light
and then dial it back up just to help bring things out a little bit more repeat this for every lyric
of the music video and you're done I had such a good time making this effect and it was highly
requested by you guys so if there is something else that you want to see in the future then leave
us a comment down below and we'll be sure to get around to it but if you want to know how to do it
from an animation standpoint then let us know in the comment section down below and we'll be sure
to work on a tutorial we wanted to give you guys a really simple easy way to do this so anyone can do
it I really do hope that if you've just begun your journey in content creation that this is something
that you're able to go out and create easily if you have found this tutorial helpful then, please
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you want more of this sort of video right cool i'm gonna go listen to that song another seven times