you could do it in vegas with pan/crop mask & the curves tool, but that would take time.

Heroglyph is the best for it, but you need a good way of making a path that's not crap. something like a wacom tablet or something similar. that or a mouse pen of some sort.

Dave

I have done this the old fashion' way using onion skin paper (or other thin paper)
and a magic marker. Write it in fancy swirls using a magic marker and film the
bleed through to the other side of the paper with your camera. Then mirror it in Vegas.

A slightly more high tech method - if your laptop/tablet PC has composite or S-Video
out, use your existing paint program and record the video out.

but no plug in?

nothing wher you pick your font and it animates it for you?

theres gotta be something?

Aug

You maybe able to follow or crib the essence of this into something:

http://www.webdesign.org/web/flash-&-swish/flash-tutorials/handwriting-effect.3603.html


It doesn't require flash per sé. Just some artsy program that lets you record keyframes or simply a sequence of stills while you rub-out. Could Vegas erase on a freehand basis? I don't think it offers such fine handcraft editing.

Bauhaus-Software's Mirage and Mimio's electronic whiteboard software does this. You may be able to get hold of the older non-object-oriented Mimio software for free from their support site - not sure. Then apply a nice font like in the above tutorial onto a Windows pbrush cell, save it and use mimio to record the erasing. Then reverse this in Vegas and apply a luminance derived key/overlay.


This is the expensive workflow to achieve a tablet derived marvel. :-
http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/animation/strokerecorder_export/strokerecorder_export.html

ok,
just to be clear, I'm interested NOT in recording me writing something with a mouse or tablet : )

I am interested in just placing a script font in vegas and having it look like it's being written down.

I've seen mirage do it with a mouse but not with a tt font.

I think it's done in final cut pro

Aug

There's nothing on the PC side that can duplicate Apple's LiveType. These workarounds mentioned look just like that, workarounds.

I assume then that Flash is the only way to achieve this
such as swish or some flash plug in?

I suppose a alpha channel could be places in flash as a background and then animate it.

I'm thinking if a mask can follow the path in flash then it would not be too hard possibly?

Aug

ok striket that tnimate the mask in flash....

too hard!

somewhere theres got to be a program that does this.

Aug

if you want to do it vegas , you can but no plugin
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others have mentioned title programs that will do it,, Aftereffects also will achieve the effect in a matter of seconds

If you search this forum, I posted awhile back a way I found to do this with SpiceMaster. (I did not invent the methodlogy, I just found where it was posted.)

I actually used SpiceMaster method this for a production peice and it worked great.

Once you "get it," it's not that hard. You need to have SpiceMaster.

I think I had to do this something 13 times or so for a peice. It worked great and I would use it again.