Two things you can do, at least.
Create a mask in a photoshop-like program and make the centre bit transparent - like Grazie said. Import it to the top track in Vegas and you should see results immediately. Pull it out to match the length of your project. If you don't have a suitable image program you could find plenty of masks on the net.

You could also make something with the text generator. If you have a font with a suitable symbol it's very easy. Otherwise you could blow up an O from say Arial Black (you can go beyond the dropdown set point sizes if you just write your number into the box), compress it vertically and position it so it matches you output aspect, and make the O transparent, background the colour of your border (black, I presume). Then you need to add a cookie cutter circle to mask out the centre of the O.

I'm a great fan of using fonts as images in Vegas (check out some of my earlier posts if you're interested), but in this case the clip-art soulution is probably the easiest.

Tor

Hi Ana,

You could create a mask easily in Photoshop or some other graphic app. Create an image 655x480, create inside, a white rectangle with radiused corners on a black background and use as a mask in Vegas.

You can also create a mask entirely in Vegas, by dropping a white background on a track, reducing the size and adding a white glow... save preview as a .png file with alpha and bring back into Vegas as a mask.


HTH, MPH

Tips:
http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html

Try this,

Go to VideoFX and try the "BORDER" softedge.
increase the angle and you get a round corner video window
with black edge.

I like creating masks inside my very cheap Ulead Photo Impact 8 ($60 at CompUSA recently). I create a rounded rectangle centered over a background (Image size is 655 by 480), make sure the rectangle is not too large so it doesn't overlap TV boundaries. Then I insert another square-edged or rounded rectangle inside the bigger rectangle, change it to a color that isn't anywhere else in the picture and save it as a transparent png, using the odd-man-out color as the transparent color. Works great.

This is just a post for any of you using Ulead Photo Impact.

Welcome back, GG

Tor

Hey thanks a lot guys for all the help!! I'll be trying out all your suggestions to see what i'm most comfortable in.Ü

GG - i would love it if you e-mail me that veg file. You can do so at splatdom@yahoo.com Thanks!

Not only did Gary mail you the veg, he mailed it to us as well, and it can be found with MANY of Gary's project veg files on the www.sundancemediagroup.com/help/download.html site. Pretty damn cool, never woulda thought of that myself!

GG - Its Ana, peekel is just a name i use for "usernames" its not as common as my real name.Ü Thanks a lot for your expertise. Oh by the way, i've got this noise problem on my video. The interviews were done next to a generator so the roaring sound is quite dominant. A suggestion given to me was to run it by noise reduction. Is that command available in VV? And are there other ways to get rid of the noise?

GG- I know you've heard this from the many others before me but i just have to say it, the Veggie Files are G-R-E-A-T! Thanks to everyone who shares their expertise as well as making downlodable samples of it.Ü

-Ana-