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Chienworks wrote on 6/17/2004, 8:50 AM
It can be done, but it's a little cumbersome. Create a duplicate credit roll and place it on another video track below and in sync with the original one. Offset it just slightly lower and to the right (if that's what you want) and set the text color to the desired shadow color.
TorS wrote on 6/17/2004, 9:07 AM
You can use the shadow in the track motion dialogue for the entire track.
Tor
prairiedogpics wrote on 6/17/2004, 10:07 AM
Tor's suggestion with the track motion shadow did the trick!

FYI, you can't do this using a duplicate event as Chienworks suggested because you are limited to offsetting the second (shadow) event either right or left, but not up or down. (I had already tried that...)

Thanks!

Dan
Chienworks wrote on 6/17/2004, 10:14 AM
You can offset it down by delaying it a few frames.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/17/2004, 12:15 PM
That's what I normaly do (copy event, shit it about 1-3 frames left/right on the timeline & 1-3 pixels in the properties box)

Never thought of track shadow (i'll also have to test to see which is faster rendering: that's imprtant!)
TorS wrote on 6/17/2004, 12:24 PM
Let's hear what you find.
Tor
JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/17/2004, 12:50 PM
Boris Graffiti LTD (which ships with Vegas 5) will also do this quite easily. You can get a nice thick 3D look to the text in addition to a shadow. I just used this in a video and the results were quite nice.

~jr
rs170a wrote on 6/17/2004, 12:56 PM
Another vote here for Boris. I read lots of complaints about it right after NAB so I was hesitant to use it. I just finished up a project using it and didn't find it hard at all to learn or use.

Mike