How to make sheet music animations

MEDIBANG PAINT PRO (download buttons are at the bottom right):
medibangpaint.com/en/pc/
DAVINCI RESOLVE:
www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod...
cobalt website:
cobalt.tools/
PNG to JPEG:
smallpdf.com/pdf-to-jpg
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Download MP3
1:17 - Get a PDF
1:33 - PDF to JPG
2:00 - Setting up sheet music
3:29 - Count amount of frames to make
4:53 - Remove notes at a time
6:55 - Animating
16:30 - Effects/Background
20:20 - FINAL RESULT (DaVinci will replay it at a choppy frame rate, don't worry, it will be normal once exported)
21:25 - Outro
(yes i know i misused 'quarter note' a few times i was like half asleep when i made this)

[@jayhu2296]

your reverting the last chord back to black and white is iconic at this point

[@diar3222]

The amount of effort and patience this must take is incredible. However the end result is likewise just as incredible

[@SpiderBj8]

Steps unclear, I accidentally made a splatoon gameplay video with a sped up 8 bit splatoon song cover in the background instead.

[@Musique_Splat]

I just realized his first video is a Splatoon one 😂

[@fattit7598]

Thanks for the tutorial wolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolowolo!!!

[@EwanOdenthal]

Really interesting to see how you make these animations - I find it really cool to see how other fellow sheet music animators make these sorts of videos. Keep up the great work, they look amazing!

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

Great content too. It helps when you can actually play your pieces lol

[@divinodayacap3313]

What I'd probably suggest as a faster alternative workflow: 1. Find a notation software file version of the piece on the web (there are sib and finale files of Chopin in the web), then, customize the paper format settings into that long long ribbon-like aspect ratio. 2. Export that as an image file. 3. Back to the notation software, hide the notes and all other notations, leaving only the blank staff behind. (crtl+Shft+H on sibelius) 4. Export that version as well (staff should align with the former image file ) 5. Fire up Photoshop, put up the two versions in 2 separate layers. 6. There is like a layer blending option there and i think is "subtract" or "difference"?? idk try experimenting. apply that blending mode on the top layer. 7. Viola, you've extracted the notations alone without the staff. export. 8. now that you've separated the staves from the notations, do with what you can with it with your workflow. I haven't tried it, but i think it'll work. Hope it helps! I LOVE YOUR WORK! ps: old hand-made Engraved editions are prettier, but wish we had AI tools for that in the future haha maybe i'll handwrite the music if im gonna do my version, scanning the empty staves first beforehand, to retain that organic look EDIT: I've thought of a faster workflow though with handgraved music 1.Use rectangle/polygon select tool and remove ALL notations in ONE pass, leaving only the staff behind. (easier than erasing it by hand one at a time) 2. export that white staff only version 3. Put that staff-only-version a layer on top of the original version 4. choose your layer blending option of choice on the top layer to extract the notations alone. (like what i did before) 5. Now with all the elements separated, its now easier to use a rectangle/polygon tool to do your usual thing

[@Camille_Hargraves]

What about doing an animation of some etudes of Franz Liszt? I think, Mazepa will look beautiful.

[@ingmarbergmanofficial]

Thanks for the tutorial! I've been waiting for this.

[@user-pn1nq8mv4m]

I don't think I can make animations as cool as yours.

[@mrantero01]

Not with such mentality!

[@davidknizek2852]

I know that im probably never gonna make something like this but I enjoy watching you doing it XD. You´re underrated af bro.

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

Thanks man

[@tszhotsang77]

Thanks a lot! It has a lot of hard works behind!

[@RhodesyYT]

Nice use of the allegro de concert

[@NuevoMilenio2000]

Live the sheet music !!!! Live the channel ! Thank for your videos.

[@edwardleonard5350]

Wow that's thorough much thanks! And that's super hard work manually for so many hours!

[@Tom-js8nn]

Really cold video!!!🥶🥶

[@twanswagtencomposer]

So much work, impressive!

[@ronny3349]

Woah, this is pretty interesting! Thanks for the tutorial!

[@ethanluvisia8678]

You are awesome for this, thank you for your work!

[@T-J-S]

Wow this requires a lot of time and patience, and I would would probably be able to do it with enough motivation. Thanks for all your work! And coincidentally this is a piece I'm learning for my exam in 2 weeks

[@sarakzite6946]

Wow thats really nice from you, thank you for this

[@veryrealcat]

by the way you can use the rectangle select and delete to delete the details easily

[@HansenTamayo-rf8dx]

Your voice is soothing ❤

[@diegotorres433]

wow amazing

[@fannymozzarella]

First comment! Also, thanks so much for the tutorial! I’m learning how to make one now! Love your vids ❤

[@Bvic3]

Simple, but with a crazy amount of manual work. At this level, I would do a pure programming render. Getting pieces with music notation files instead of PDF. And then doing the render with programming. Also, isn't it possible with photoshop to create two layers, one where you just remove the horizontal lines. It seems easier to manually remove the lines than to remove the notes.

[@Kudozxu]

I'm going to make a Scriabin sonata 4 ending sheet music anim video now, thanks >:)

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

Good luck

[@Kudozxu]

@@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417 im like 1/5 of the way done with cutting the notes up and I'm DEAD. I dont know how the hell you did the pieces you did

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

@@Kudozxu if a genie spawned in front of me and granted one wish it would be to have this step automated

[@Kudozxu]

@@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417 agreed.

[@Kudozxu]

@@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417 Okay so I fixed it, but Compound clips make it so anytime I zoom in, it gets blurry. i can zoom in fine with one png but when I make it a compound clip it becomes blurry. You got any ideas?

[@shawnshawns]

omg yeah i feel like no one knows sayeedur123s videos?? he disappeared after he said he was gonna focus on his mental health and im so sad he deleted all his videos, glad youre the one making them now!

[@aenyx_]

thanks for the tutorial! when i change the clips to compound tho, the resolution drops by a lot. i've followed your tutorial step by step, so i really don't understand why this happens. any idea on how to fix this? i've already made all the frames and placed them in order, it would make me sad if i'd let all that work go to waste :(

[@AllenVarney]

Another time-saving approach: Instead of manually erasing each note, maybe paste a blank block of lines, one note wide, over the note to be deleted?

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

possibly, there's parts where the brush is more helpful, like smaller specific cuts. either way, since this video, i've discovered a shortcut where you can draw a quick line with ur cursor and it erases through that line, which is similar and cleaner imo

[@bianyuanakuma4420]

If you make music sheet, you don't have to erase it yourself. It should save a lot of time, right?

[@a_tiepoh]

I feel so sigma!

[@SpiderBj8]

☹️

[@nourytime9804]

Great tutorial! I made my own animation on a chopin prelude and I would like to see what you think.

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

will do

[@duartevader2709]

This inspired me to start a channel to make this types of videos, doesnt mind you if i go with 48 1 even tho you already did right? (also going with pogorelich so not completely copying)

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

yes feel free to do any piece you want, even if I already did it

[@GabrieldiSouzza]

make the grande polonaise brillante chopin coda pls?

[@PrismaPog_17]

Hey a different kind of suggestion here: Can you please make an animation on Mozarts 8th Piano sonata 1st Movements development section, its really stormy, and not very Mozart-like, which I find interesting

[@billy2022]

In Sayeedur's Ravel string quartet animation,he does the trill animation by alternating between two notes,do you know how to do it?

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

My guess is that he manually drew the note but slightly higher, and he alternated between those two frames, though I haven’t tried that yet

[@mrantero01]

Do you need a strong graphics card for this? If not, I'll give it a try. Great video

[@amaice]

Davinci resolve can be slow on weaker computers, but the editing techniques are pretty light on the computer, you could probably do this with sony vegas on windows xp if you wanted to lol

[@veryrealcat]

Hello my friend This video inspired me to try to make an animation of the full op 27 no 1 nocturne. Yes, i am crazy But i'm wondering if and how i can merge different pngs together as the nocturne has 3 pages and i managed to make 3 pngs, each corresponding to one page

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

Hello. Ambitious, but it is very possible! I personally haven't found a way to merge multiple pages together. What I do instead is at the end of the page, the screen quickly moves to the bottom left, then the new page is inserted. This creates an illusion that looks like the camera is just panning to the next line below. You can see this trick used in several of my animations. But if you can find a way, then that will look very nice

[@veryrealcat]

@@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417 Hmm i'll keep that in mind. I'm still collecting the frames though, it's probably gonna take a while

[@TJ-uj7nl]

I dont have these apps but can u do Goodbye Mr Rachmaninoff by C. Katsaris. Just listen to it🤩🤩

[@EctxD]

i thought that does automaticly... but thats not omg

[@coobik7973]

Wouldn't it be easier to use a midi file to find when to delete notes and a pdf, on a pdf you can just click on a note and delete it they are all considered separate objects so youll still have all the lines. After that you can convert all pdfs to png (please dont use jpeg for transparency) and animate, then stitch the lines together.

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

Possibly. I've never used midi files before but if that works, then that can be a better alternative.

[@coobik7973]

@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417 Midi files are just PDF scores but as the instructions to how to play the music. To use them in VLC you need to install a soundfont. There are online converters that allow you to convert a midi file to a PDF file, which will identically represent the midi file. Short: Midi files are PDF scores for computers.

[@amaice]

@@coobik7973 you would have to go and manually add all the markings (text, slurs, pedals, dynamics, hairpins) though, but i could see that still being more efficient

[@coobik7973]

@amaice You don't have to. You can delete one note at a time from the end of the midi file and save as PNG, then only the necessary part will be visible.

[@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner]

Can you do this on mobile?

[@Filosof1442]

When I tried to zoom in, my image lost quality 13:54

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

Try making your pngs compound clips first, then invert the color

[@adamcarmichael2249]

at 2:10 i couldnt find my pdf file even though i converted and downloaded it :((((((( please help wolowolowolo

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

Did you download it and can’t find it? If that’s the case, try checking your downloads folder, or quick search the name of the piece in your file explorer

[@adamcarmichael2249]

@@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417 i did its not there

[@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417]

@@adamcarmichael2249 are you on windows 10/11?

[@adamcarmichael2249]

@@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417 its windows 11

[@adamcarmichael2249]

@@wolowolowolowolowolowolowo2417im on windows 11

[@huailiulin]

259th like

[@user-cz9li6yl9v]

Still, I don't understand because I'm not talented in editing videos or photos. 😂

[@L.F.Martilio.D]

Such a sexy voice...

[@diegotorres433]

Agreed

[@saldana7395]

Bro? 🤨

[@SpiderBj8]

@@diegotorres433 ur not the agreer

[@raloon2927]

Thats some serious work. Respect. 🥹

[@jezergrijalva8521]

Hello, could you animate a piece written by me? Do you do that kind of work? I would be very grateful if you could share an email where I can contact you, thank you!