Making a karaoke

hello i'm newe i looked on the forum didnt found something that helped me about this subject
i have to make karaoke only the text i have to take care of i want the change of color and i'm wondering which effect will make the job
i'm currently using adobe premiere pro cs3 but i know someone that use cs4 i can do it there
so please i would apreciated any kind of help
thanks in advanced
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There is no "Bounching Red Ball" Effect in PrPro.
That would be created by hand with a Title, that contains a Filled Circle Shape. You only need one, and it can then be Keyframed, using the Fixed Effect>Motion>Position to place it over each word, in turn. Keyframing over time, will do just what you want, though it does take some hand-work.
Now, if the layout of your Lower-Thirds is fairly consistant, then I would not use one long "bouncing ball" Title, but one for each of the Lower-Thirds. This will save work, and I will tell you how, in just a moment.
Go to the very first Instance (every time you drag that Title to your Video Track 3, it will be an Instance of the Title), and Keyframe that over the words in the first Lower-Third. Place an unaltered Instance of that Title over each Lower-Third Title. With those initial Keyframes on Motion>Position in the first Instance of that Title, Rt-click on it in the Timeline, and choose Copy. Then, Select all other Instances of that Title, Rt-click and choose Paste Attributes, to get the Keyframes onto each one. Depending on the length of the lines of lyrics (Lower-Thirds on Video Track 2), and their Justification, you should be pretty close with the Effect>Motion>Position Keyframes, and will only have to tweak things a bit. Obviously, as you have longer words, or fewer, or more, you might need to remove, or add a Keyframe, but you will be fairly close, and that will save a lot of time.
Good luck,
Hunt

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Steps 1 through 3 might be possible from the Windows PE environment. If so, only a computer with legacy BIOS boot would be nessesary (no actuall installation).
Windows 7 can be installed on a (U)EFI system, but I have not checked if I can use the boot from teh stick on such a Computer. Latest for Windows 8 Media UEFI compatibilty is nessesary.
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Advanced things:
Need to check if the partition could be formated as NTFS. I prefer a Journalling Filesystem for my USB-sticks.
Windows 7 can be installed on a (U)EFI system, but I have not checked if I can use the boot from teh stick on such a Computer. Latest for Windows 8 Media UEFI compatibilty is nessesary.
I converted the stick to NTFS using the convert.exe and it continued booting. So chances are high they only choose FAT32 in the example because no feature of NTFS was per nessesary in a "almost only reading" scenario like installation media.
The second part depends on the BIOS. I have a more advanced one where I can choose legacy boot options (like USB stick) in the boot option menu even when the default setting is UEFI, as long as I don't need Secure boot (wich I do not).
Another question arose: Windows 7 has the Kernel/BCD level ability to boot from .VHD Files. The only thing preventing version below corporate from using this feature is a license check that is run just before the login (so way after the booting has been
completed).
Starting with 3.0 Windows PE is based on the kernel of Windows 7. So the instlaltion system might have the ability to boot from .VHD too and might have no such check in place. If so, I could put both versions of the Windows 7 installer into .VHD, reducing the
need to have physical primary partitions for those.
Windows bootprocess vs. Linux boot process under BIOS:
The BIOS goes over all the boot media. If it finds one with a MBR, that one is executed and the BIOS part of the boot process is officially over.
-> Under Windows the MBR contains the "generic boot loader". A simple piece of code as old as BIOS (25 Years) that looks for the primary partition with "Active" Flag on "it's" disk. If it finds one, the Partition Boot Record of that parition is executed.
The MBR has done it's part
    -> NTLDR (NT too 2000), this one reads the boot.ini file and gives/executeds apropirate options
    -> BOOTMGR (Vista, 7), this one reads the BCD files
      -> Since Windows 7 BOOTMGR can also chainload the Partition Boot Record that is inside a .VHD File
    -> Wicher was used in Windows 3.X/95/98/ME
Higher versions can chainload lower versions, but must be designed for this and (re)installed in the proper "order".
The sometimes odd behavior that Windows 7 tries to keep 100 MiB in a seperate primary partition is there to have proper places for later additions to the BOOTMGR settings. Specifically it allows multiple BOOTMGR OS to use/edit the same BOOTMGR instace without
running into problems with "whose partition is active?" (since it is always the System Reserved one). It's not disimilar to having an extra /boot partition in Linux or how a GRUB's stage 2 works.
-> Under a typical Grub Legacy the MBR contains the Stage 1. It directly reads the Stage 2 from the proper partition/file system with a hardcoded path, but due to size limit of the MBR cannot do more. In some cases it starts a stage 1.5 wich has more
space to do work (63 sectors between MBR and first partition), but I never used this Setup
    -> Stage 2 loads the Grub Configuration from the disk. From here it depends on what OS you want to boot.
        -> For Linux or Unix the kernel is started directly.
        -> Any Windows OS up to 7 can be booted using the chainloader command. For the OS this is identical to having the partition choosen by the Generic Bootloader.
While it can be chainloaded by the Generic Bootloader from the active primary partition, GRUB and thus Linux has no
requirement for any Primary Partitions. Stage 1 is designed to directly access the specific File System containng the Stage 2. In fact it does not even need to reside on the same disk (as the Generic Bootloader has to).
If one does not need the Active Flag to control the Generic Bootloader (because a proper Stage 1 is installed in MBR) it is adviseable to mark wichever Windows Partition is chainloaded as active (up to Vista at least I had very odd behavior if the Windows boot
partition was not marked active, down to randomly shredded Partition boot managers).
After running a Windows Setup usually the Stage 1 has to be restored, as Windwos Setup will always write it's Generic Bootloader in the MBR. In order to get "rid" of a Grub all one has to do is overwrite the MBR with the Generic Bootloader and set the active
flag properly.
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