Hello!
I've seen videos on creating a highlighter effect and they all use a tedious process of using a mask in pan and crop but I wanted to know if there was an alternative. If not, I'd like to NOT use the media generator to create a standard rectangular highlter effect. I'd like it exactly like Coffeezilla on youtube where the sides are jagged. Anybody know how he edits it? it just looks alot more realistic Here's a video of it in action @ 2:49: 
Use Vegas image or Photoshop to draw the highlighter onto the text, covering all the text. Make the edges rough like you want.
Then have the text not highlighted at all in a separate frame... Put both on top of each other on the timeline, with the highlighted text on top.
From there either use the bezier mask or pan crop mask, perhaps with a slight feather applied, to reveal the highlighted text image on the top track line by line.
Thanks I'll give it a shot!
The simplest method would be to use generated text, I am using a hyphen here, I remove the spaces using the tracking slider in the text generation box, then using normal masking to slide across and reveal the highlight. I think you could make the same brush as he's using, I only made a slanted line, but could be improved upon
thanks for that idea as well! i'll see if i can create some kind of template to not have to generate it each time :D