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(You can often also just copy-paste directly from your favourite lyrics website.) Now, to get the text in, we could just start typing it in.īut don't do that! You'll get much huger success if you have it all in a text file, copy it from there and paste it into Aegisub.

(Remember that this only works with uncompressed PCM files, things like ADPCM or MP3 in WAV files won't work and will still trigger the pre-loading.) Entering the words This can be a great time-saver, but of course it requires a bit of extra disk space and probably also a bit of work beforehand to even create the WAV file. Instant loading of WAV files: If you have an uncompressed PCM WAV file, Aegisub can open it instantly without first loading it entirely into memory. This won't actually open the video in the file, it will just read the audio from the video file, the same as if it was just the audio in a separate file. Loading audio directly from video files: You can select to choose from video files in the Open Audio file selector.

#COOL KARAOKE SUBTITLE EFFECTS AEGISUB HOW TO#

We'll look at how to use the audio display for timing in a moment, but first let's get the lyrics for the song loaded. If you've used Aegisub before things might look a little different, it might be easier to follow the rest of this tutorial if you set things to look like on this picture. When it's done, you should have a waveform display (the audio display) at the top of the Aegisub window. Select Open Audio from the Audio menu.Īegisub will now spend a short while reading the audio file. You already have that if you have just started Aegisub. I will show how to use those in a video tutorial. I am using an English song for demonstration here, but many of the more advanced functions in Aegisub are designed for use with songs in Japanese and other languages that often need transcription or transliteration into Latin script.

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