Covering scroll bar

HaroldC wrote on 7/14/2007, 12:41 PM
I'm starting to collect some video on my favourite candidate. I have been trying to put a black bar over the news scroll bar towards the bottom of the frame. The default is to center the bar I have attempted to create. I'm not able to move the black bar over the scroll bar.

I have created a 720 x 20 pixel black bar in the video overlay. But as I said I can't move that in the frame. I've put a short sample video for a civic group together and put a logo in it; but I've forgotten how I did it.

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OhMyGosh wrote on 7/14/2007, 3:32 PM
Hi Harold,
You should be able to move the black bar by clicking on the Pan/Crop control on the black bar clip, and that will allow you to move, resize, or whatever else you need to do. Track motion would also work, along with a couple of other probably more complex methods. Let us know if it works. Cin
mickbadal wrote on 7/17/2007, 9:38 AM
I think Cin is onto the right solution. Place a blackscreen video on the overlay track (higher than the video track containing the news scroll), use "track motion" on the overlay, turn off the "lock aspect ratio" button and "squish" the video down until it's a long black bar, then position it at the bottom of the preview window so it blocks out the news scroll area as you desire.
rustier wrote on 7/17/2007, 2:24 PM
you might consider clicking the media generators tab and selecting a linear color gradient and drop it above your clip. If you play with the control points you can get a crisp line or a "fuzzy" one any size/color you want. make sure the upper "color" is "checkerboard" -transparent. quick and easy
HaroldC wrote on 7/17/2007, 2:46 PM
The most that the bar can be moved from center is about either up or down is about 40 pixels. And I don't see a linear color gradient in the media generator tab.
rustier wrote on 7/17/2007, 3:57 PM
ALT 9 or click view at top of menu bar and select media generator. If you select color gradient you will see it there linear black to transparent. Drop it in and rotate it and size it as you want
mickbadal wrote on 7/23/2007, 1:53 PM
"you might consider clicking the media generators tab and selecting a linear color gradient and drop it above your clip. If you play with the control points you can get a crisp line or a "fuzzy" one any size/color you want."

I'm wondering if you can also pull this type of effect off by creating a "cookie cutter" (rectangle shaped). Set the rectangle so it's bigger than the viewing area, and position it so that only the top edge appears, running across the screen where you want it and filling from that horizontal to the bottom of the screen. Then feather the cookie cutter's edge.