I want to advance my editing with texts. Have only been using presets.

Furqan wrote on 6/17/2025, 10:29 AM

I've just figured out that in Vegas Pro, there's a whole new creative outlet of text editing when you go to legacy text editing.

Which means, I had only been using the basic text animations for my edits.

I looked up on youtube if there are any tutorials around legacy text to improve my skillset in this aspect.

I'm still hunting, but I was also hoping to check with the forum and see if you guys know of any resourceful places on the internet from where I could learn everything about legacy text.

Until a few days I was thinking if I should switch to premiere pro for that, but there's an undiscovered pool in the tool already, lol.

Thanks!

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Gid wrote on 6/17/2025, 12:11 PM

@Furqan Have a look at ProType Titler if you want to expand your text options with what Vegas has to offer, you may have to turn it on in Preferences.

Furqan wrote on 7/9/2025, 2:41 PM

That's not what I was looking for. The part where I have to find this feature, I have already passed. I wanted to know if there are people who teach how to use them. For instance, here's a text treatment style that I had to make manually:

What's time consuming is I have to take a separate gradient colour background.

Then mask it using rectangle shape and circle shapes on the left and right.

Then use the picture-in-picture to drag and align with the text.

I can't do that for every text if I'm editing a video with some heavy brand imposition on it.

Similarly, there could be various text treatments and animations I think exists in this vegas pro universe. I just don't find any tutorial or trainer on youtube that is teaching all of this (at least in a full pack). There's only by vegas pro channel, but it's only very specific to the intro they made for themselves.

That's where I need help in. Sorry that I couldn't elaborate on this in my main question.

3POINT wrote on 7/10/2025, 4:04 AM

For instance, here's a text treatment style that I had to make manually:

What's time consuming is I have to take a separate gradient colour background.

Then mask it using rectangle shape and circle shapes on the left and right.

Then use the picture-in-picture to drag and align with the text.

Take a look at the Title&Text options:

or :

Furqan wrote on 7/10/2025, 6:02 AM

Hey thanks for showing these alternatives. But interestingly, I've tried those too:

The first one was already pretty basic, therefore I felt like graduating from that method of text background.
The second one I've used several times in the past. But every time I wanted to animate (keyframing) or change positions of a text, I had to realign its background + re-adjust its shape. The goal is, I want the whole text with background as one element so that it's dragable as a whole, so that it's not so much time consuming to do this to several text elements in later parts of a video.

otherwise, it's not a problem for me when playing with texts without backgrounds (or with the basic backgrounds like in the first picture you shared).

Dexcon wrote on 7/10/2025, 8:01 AM

What you may be seeking are what are called 'call outs', a much more modern titling approach unfortunately beyond the default capabilities of Vegas Pro's years old default titling (e.g. self-sizing lines/shapes around the text).

You may want to look at NewBlueFX's Titler Pro 7 and some of their template add-ons, as well as BorisFX's Title Studio as many call outs are included with that titler. Unfortunately, these are not inexpensive titlers.

'Lower thirds' are another option but typically are of a standard size even if animated (i.e not self-sizing based on text length).

Maybe someone on the forum might know of a free or inexpensive call out or lower third titler package which self-sizes based on text length/size.