Hey thanks!

Those are not quite the animated items I need, but for some situations, they could be useful for everyone on this forum.

I appreciate your generosity!

I've been using VP since 2002 and understand your wishes. I've come to understand to get the the most appropriate tools for the job. Try this tool : https://www.flashbackrecorder.com/ It's got all the tools I want, and I leave VP to do all the heavyweight work on my Video and Audio.

That's a good one Grazie. Thank you.

Richard

That's a good one Grazie. Thank you.

It sure is. It's got everything and the price is modest too.

Vegas doesn't have any preset animated shapes.

If I've wanted something like this I've done it one of three ways, depending on my mood and what exactly I want:

1) I make it in Blender (I still use 2.49b because it's the one I know well)

2) I make animations frame by frame in The Gimp & save each frame as an image sequence (I use layers for onion skinning)

3) I make it in Vegas by treating Vegas as a graphics animation program that I'd use either the finished .veg (rare) or render out to an image sequence my animation, or use it right in the current project (you can have multiple instances of Vegas open at once & copy/paste between them).

I couldn't find a demo video of Camtasia Studio that shows how it animated stuff, but putting the checkmark as text via Wingdings & doing a transition of a page peel, iris, etc. might be what you're looking for.

I couldn't find a demo video of Camtasia Studio that shows how it animated stuff, but putting the checkmark as text via Wingdings & doing a transition of a page peel, iris, etc. might be what you're looking for.

Here are some links to a video that shows animated "callouts" in Camtasia Studio:

youtu.be/DXOmhAIYaRE?t=32s

youtu.be/DXOmhAIYaRE?t=1m28s

or

Thanks for the workaround suggestions. They will likely be useful for other readers of the forum, but for me, they are probably too involved, as video production is just one of my many weekly tasks, so the solution needs to be capable, easy, and fast.

@Grazie

After reading your suggestion, I watched a tutorial video for BB Flashback. The video was from 2010, but it was pretty much all I could find. Anyway, BB looks interesting, and the cost seems reasonable. However, in my particular case, I already have Camtasia Studio 8, so BB would be redundant. But thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Digiman, in which case, the first class advise from THF is exactly the advise to follow.

Create a fairly large PNG image with transparency, and then use Pan/Crop to scale and rotate the arrow to what you need.

PNG sequence to create something more 3D, like someone suggested using Blender. I use blender too for this.

You can generally find ready made PNG file from Google Images for any icon you want.

Wingdings and other Fonts have icons that can be inserted using the text and titles. Windows Character Map can help with find these and coping them into Vegas. Then use Pan Crop to rotate.

Using vectored fonts will always scale to the resolution the best when sizing and rotating. Using scaled images can create artifacts along edges.

I continue to play with my newly created tools and learn from THF. Here is an example I created to illustrate why one should fix it in the camera instead of "in post".

Got myself a couple of useful "arrows" fonts recently. They can be a great lazy option. Here's "Arrows ADF" in use:

Edit: Red Prince created a new pointers font. See here: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/video-pointers--105544/