How to Create Video Overlays

GFM wrote on 5/29/2020, 9:20 PM

Dear experts,

Could I trouble you to look at this video.

First the texts that come up at 1:10

Then the screen overlay at 1:49 where Michael demonstrates how he would look through the camera.

How is this done, and through what functionality of Vegas Pro? If not, what other program add on do I need?

 

Thanks all!

Best regards!

 

 

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fr0sty wrote on 5/29/2020, 11:47 PM

Assuming you are using a recent version of Vegas, add another video track above your main track. Right click on that track and select "add text media" (I'm quoting that from memory, the exact text may be different), and it will add a text media event on that track and then open the text editor so you can change what it says, the font, size, animations used to intro/hide the text, etc.

For the black frame at 1:49, go to the media generators tab and add a solid color on the same top track that you put the text on. Make it black (if you don't see how to, right click on it, edit generated media). Right click on it and go to video event pan/crop. Go into mask mode in there and make a square mask. You may have to select the option to invert the mask to get the effect your are after, but basically you'll use the mask to cut a square hole in the generated media, revealing the video on the track underneath inside of the hole. Then you can add more video tracks above that to insert the green text, the little square overlays on the center of the screen (you can make these in vegas image, photoshop, or any similar app, just make sure they have a transparent background when you do, or you can use the same generated media with a hole cut in it method I describe above to make each of the little squares) to simulate the focus points, etc.

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Systems:

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 8 core 16 thread at stock speed

64GB 3000mhz DDR4

Geforce RTX 3090

Windows 10

Laptop:

ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo 32GB (9980HK CPU, RTX 2060 GPU, dual 4K touch screens, main one OLED HDR)

john_dennis wrote on 5/29/2020, 11:52 PM

The text at 1:10. Try ProType Titler. Add fx to change the color gradient to suit yourself.

1:49 appears to be captured from the camera display. Possibly from HDMI out.

fr0sty wrote on 5/30/2020, 12:08 AM

Here's a video tutorial.

Systems:

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 8 core 16 thread at stock speed

64GB 3000mhz DDR4

Geforce RTX 3090

Windows 10

Laptop:

ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo 32GB (9980HK CPU, RTX 2060 GPU, dual 4K touch screens, main one OLED HDR)

michael-harrison wrote on 5/30/2020, 9:17 AM

This tutorial uses some of the methods you're interested in. Jump to 6:57

System 1:

Windows 10
i9-10850K 10 Core
128.0G RAM
Nvidia RTX 3060 Studio driver [most likely latest]
Resolution        3840 x 2160 x 60 hertz
Video Memory 12G GDDR5

 

System 2:

Lenovo Yoga 720
Core i7-7700 2.8Ghz quad core, 8 logical
16G ram
Intel HD 630 gpu 1G vram
Nvidia GTX 1050 gpu 2G vram

 

Reyfox wrote on 6/2/2020, 6:01 AM

As @john_dennis mentioned, the camera display is captured through HDMI out. In the settings of almost all cameras, you can have the in camera overlays either on or off for the HDMI output.

I have to turn them off otherwise the onscreen display will show up in the live stream we do at church.

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