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Spot|DSE wrote on 3/23/2005, 6:08 PM
Very easy to do with Bezier masking, in terms of the reveal. Jason Abbott has a tutorial on how to do this with just masking.
http://www.vasst.com/resource.aspx?id=6a527eaf-afca-4119-bb69-3e2f54ea8e0c

To drop individual letters on at a time, each letter needs it's own track. If you only want to REVEAL one letter at a time, Bezier works great. You can also use Pan/Crop to reveal text, depending on how you'd like it to appear, and finally...you can use a transition on a text event to control how it reveals. A wipe is great for this. Combine all the styles for a really intense or creative look.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 3/23/2005, 7:10 PM

Douglas, the link "demonstrated in a tutorial" appears to be dead. I keep getting "The page cannot be found" message.

By the way, the effect looks top-notch! Very well done!


Spot|DSE wrote on 3/23/2005, 7:22 PM
it should be fixed now. Thanks for the heads up!
MUTTLEY wrote on 3/23/2005, 8:11 PM

Should the download have the following files the veg is asking for ?

mask.png
mask_freehand.png
mask_john-handy.png
mask_kaufman.png
mask_staccato.png
mask_vivaldi.png
text.png
text_freehand.png
text_john-handy.png
text_kaufman.png
text_staccato.png
text_vivaldi.png

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com
Jayster wrote on 7/18/2006, 9:55 PM
Just downloaded a demo of Heroglyph. Many on this forum are familiar with it.

I haven't tried the other ways to do this (bezier masks, SpiceMaster, etc.), but after using Heroglyph I'd say this plugin makes it practically effortless. It plugs into Vegas as a generated media. You can type words on the screen then use a mouse or a tablet to write over the typed text, then it lets you smooth out what you write (so it doesn't look like garbage, as my writing does).

Here's a that took about 5 minutes to create once I got the hang of it.
Grazie wrote on 7/18/2006, 10:14 PM
Just sen it on U-Tube. Great work.
Jayster wrote on 7/18/2006, 10:50 PM
Thanks, Grazie!

I know there are other things this titler can do, but the handwriting effect really got my attention. And the software doesn't seem anywhere near as complicated as Boris Graffiti (which doesn't do the handwriting effect anyway, far as I can tell).
DGates wrote on 7/19/2006, 1:01 AM
Geez, could that Heroglyph download site have any more ads? Silly Germans.
Grazie wrote on 7/19/2006, 1:24 AM
Yup, the writing is on the wall.
genie wrote on 7/19/2006, 3:32 AM
$175 for Hieroglyph is pretty pricey - does vaast do anything like this?

Genie
craftech wrote on 7/19/2006, 4:54 AM
Should the download have the following files the veg is asking for ?

mask.png
mask_freehand.png
mask_john-handy.png
mask_kaufman.png
mask_staccato.png
mask_vivaldi.png
text.png
text_freehand.png
text_john-handy.png
text_kaufman.png
text_staccato.png
text_vivaldi.png
===========
Tried loading it by leaving missing files offline and it wouldn't play. Said something about an unsupported media file.

John
Jayster wrote on 7/19/2006, 7:32 AM
Geez, could that Heroglyph download site have any more ads? Silly Germans.

$175 for Hieroglyph is pretty pricey -

The link I posted was not to Heroglyph's company site, it was actually to a "downloads" site that gives a 20% discount on the software; "normal" price is $219 on Heroglyph's website.

Is it worth that much $? Depends. Looks like doing a handwriting text using bezier masks or a SpiceMaster reveal is quite time consuming, and same for doing drop-in text by having a separate track for each character. All quite time consuming. This software does it in 5 minutes (once you get the hang of it). If you did this a lot for productions (like as a wedding videographer, for example) it could be easilty justified. And it does a lot of other things, like text along a path, characters flying in, it also does slide shows with motion, zoom & rotate, etc.

And maybe there are more expensive packages out there that do a whole lot more. I don't know, haven't tried them. Lots of titler packages on the net, this one as far as I can tell distinguishes itself by being one of the easiest out there at its price level for the handwriting effect. I haven't looked at it in depth. Looks like it doesn't have the sophistication (read: complexity) of some of the other packages. As always, its value depends on what an editor needs.