If you've got Paint Shop Pro or some equiv Graphics s/w, you could make the elements and then stick it all together in a GIF animation - Otherwise do a search for free clapper board on the net - yeah? - Nice little Tutorial Project to do.
How realistic do you want it - i'd have ago if you're interested!
Grazie: i didn't get it yet. It looks like you tried to upload a .avi file and it was automatically rejected. Care to try again with something like a 3Mbps WMV file instead?
I thought this might be achievable done entirely as generated media within Vegas so you can change the text on the clapper board without needing a 3rd party program. So I did. Here is the veg file: ClapperBoard.veg from my web site along with a tutorial of how I did it.
As mother always said, “never underestimate the power of your veggies”. ;-)
Thanks, I agree yours is a snapper alright... ;-) I got the idea from a transition I have in Hollywood FX that flies in a clapper board and then turns it around reveling the next clip on the back. You really need to have parent-child object operations to fly this stuff around and keep it together. I do wish there was a Hollywood FX plug-in for Vegas. I miss not having it.