Cooldraft,

There are keyable overlays, most of them I've seen in the paid stock footage sites. I thought there was one on the VASST site as a .veg but couldn't find it. I've created one and uploaded it - quicky job and fairly basic but you can see how it was done and cater to your taste.

look for CameraRecordingDisplay

aaah but u see u dont need to run full keying filters to do this.. ...

using good ol Powerpoint, u can use your Autoshape tool to create a frame

Before you do this saturate the entire slide in black

Go to yor autoshape tool and select a quare or rectangle and greate a frame.. Now paint it red.

now get your text tool and put a big REC on one of the corners
Now go back to your autoshape tool and create a lil square and put it next to it..

export this as a PNG

Now get rid of the lil square box near yoru record REC and export that as a PNG as well..

In vegas create a new track, go to compositing mode and select add or burn or anyone of these which gets rid of the black and allows the red to become transparent over the origial footage.

Now put your first PNG in for about 15frames(WITH the square) , and then the second for another 15 (without the li square)
Now use your selection tool and highlight, right click, copy, then use the cntrl V (paste) to paste this across for as far as it needs to go.
Voila instant overlay without excessive filtering

If ur feeling adventurours, u can also creat a lil battery icon and if u really wanted to u coudl also throw in an animated GIF of some audio levels. Throw on a timecode filter for some real authentic looks and feels.. lol

Where are the vegs on tha vasst site now. I typed your CameraRecordingDisplay in the mail search and nothing would come up.

hasn't been approved by VASST yet - I just emailed ya - send me an email and I'll get it to you

cheno