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Karaoke Video Creator

Karaoke Video Creator gives you the full control over the karaoke video you create. You may change the text properties, colors, and display images anywhere in the song. These extra options are available by the means of events. Event is executed after the preceding word is painted or highlighted (it depends of the event, eg. Clear screen is triggered after highlighting, while Colors event during painting). This behaviour may be changed for Set Background events, for which you may choose exact time of activation.

 

You work with events in lyrics editor. They are displayed as boxes with text describing the type of the event.

 

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In order to insert a event position the cursor in the place the event should be inserted and click Insert Event button on the lyrics pane toolbar (toolbar-insertevent) or  select Insert event menu command from Edit menu. Insert Event dialog box will appear, allowing you to select the event type from the list.

 

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Below is the list of events available in Karaoke Video Creator. After you select the type of the event another dialog box is displayed that allows to set the properties of the selected event type.

 

Clear Screen

Causes a screen to be erased after the last word before the event becomes highlighted

Colors

Allows to change colors for text (both normal and highlighted), effects, background, and border

Countdown

Inserts countdown mark before the next word that helps the singer to start on time

Display Image

Allows to display an image on the screen. Before the picture is displayed the screen is cleared.

Duet

Allows to change the coloring of the text to visualize the change of a singer
Duets can be parallel

Set Background

Changes the background of the video

Text Settings

Allows to modify the properties of the text

 

Events can be edited. To edit an event double-click it in the lyrics editor or right-click it and select Event Properties command from pop-up menu.

 

Events can be deleted like other text. There is one more editing feature available for events -- you may copy event and insert it in some other place in the song. to do this right-click an event to copy and select Copy Event command. Now right-click in the place you want the copy of the event to appear and select Paste Event command from pop-up menu.