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ritsmer wrote on 7/1/2008, 9:24 AM
If I understand your question correctly:

Place a generated text in the track over the video.
Write the bannertext.
Use Placement to put it to the bottom.
Use Properties to chose the textcolour and let the background be transparent (default).
MSmart wrote on 7/1/2008, 10:47 AM
let the background be transparent

I believe she wanted a solid background.

To do that use Generated media to select a solid color, place it on a track above your video, use Pan/Crop to size and position it where you want. Then place the generated text on a track above your banner track positioning the text ontop of the banner.

In other words, you'll be using 3 tracks: video, banner, text. (4 if you want to be techincal and include the audio track.)
nancyb wrote on 7/1/2008, 11:31 AM
Thank you so much. But I can't get that banner to go to the bottom. Even after fooling around with "size about center."
MSmart wrote on 7/1/2008, 12:37 PM
Actually, you'll use Track Motion, not Pan/Crop, here's a tutorial that shows it: (warning: he says a few minor swear words - hope you don't mind)



Here is a tutorial on how to create a "lower third" in Photoshop to use in your video



nancyb wrote on 7/1/2008, 7:43 PM
Wonderful! I got it to work. I guess I should do a search on youtube for sony movie studio. I'm probably missing out on a lot of good tutorials. Yes?
I appreciate your help.
gmes29 wrote on 7/15/2008, 3:51 PM
actually you can still do this in VMS with a single text event as an overlay. here's what i did..
in the placement tab, placed the text at the top of the event and set up the keyframes so the text goes right to left.
set text foreground color to royal blue, background color to white.
in track motion, took the entire rectangle in it's original size and simply lowered it until the text and it's background were only visible in the bottom portion of the preview pane.