Chrome or glass text tutorial in Vegas

Rory Cooper wrote on 4/20/2009, 9:55 PM
Here is a short tutorial on how to do chrome or glass text in Vegas

www.vimeo.com/4244184


The clip is for a mate of mine but maybe other folks can benefit

The composite is the same for 3d text from Bluff titler or Heroglyph
Just produce your text in tones of greys the same as in the graphics

Please feel free to put your boot through your computer screen

Rory

Comments

Grazie wrote on 4/20/2009, 10:28 PM
Roars, great tute and am playing right away . . .

Bit of a Tip back at yah? When I want to copy an Event (your 1:41) to a New Track, Click on Event "to copy", just Hold down Ctrl and Drag - that's it! As per any WORD processor . . . .

Thanks for sharing the tute.

Grazie
Rory Cooper wrote on 4/20/2009, 11:01 PM
Shot thanks for the tip Grazie

I am also playing with that right now ….good habit to develop

Another tip if you want to remove your boot from your screen use your keyboard as a crowbar
srode wrote on 4/21/2009, 3:30 AM
Can hardly make out the audio - looks great though - any chance for a write up on this? Is anyone else having problems understanding due to the audio quality?
Rory Cooper wrote on 4/21/2009, 4:59 AM
Sorry about the audio it was recorded in a studio with 33 plasma screens on my right and the aircon for the room is very noisy so I had to remove a lot of background noise


Track 1… text png ….comp mode multiply mask ..parent container for track 2 and 3
Track 2….video clip…comp mode custom displacement map.. parent for track 3.. PARENT comp mode is hard light or add
Track 3….text png

Track 4 .…video clip…Bezier mask for clean clip
Track 5…..video clip…linear blur

You only need two elements a background video clip and your text png or video clip with an alpha channel

Your text png needs a hard bevel with a strong highlight and dark bur for contrast

On track 2 use levels fx to increase the brightness of that video track which is saturating track 1

I sometimes add chroma key to track 1 and key out some mid tone greys to get a sharper image with a clear transparency
Then this will look like clear glass and less like chrome

Instead of text graphic shapes can also be used

Hope this makes sense

Rory