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kameronj wrote on 1/9/2004, 10:58 AM
Make your dot crosshair in a graphics application (photoshop, etc), import into VV as a picture - lay it on top of the video layer - use track motion to "animate".
TorS wrote on 1/9/2004, 11:45 AM
I have no idea what a fragmovie is, but have a look here (rightclick it).
There's a crosshair sight in there, and it's a symbol from a dingbat font. You know you can just add all kinds of symbols in Vegas from all kinds of fonts - it doesn't have to be letters. You just put them in the text generator and do whatever you want with them. It's great. Everything in that little film is made with the text generator - except the footage itself (and the music) as far as I can remember.
Tor
epirb wrote on 1/9/2004, 1:41 PM
TorS: I remember watching that short clip before,And I really dig the use of the title graphics.Sometime's it's easier for me to learn/understand how things are done by "reverse engineering" the process. I'd like to know just how thats was done just for my own knowlege and improving my undrstanding of Vegas.
Is there any way you would consider posting that veg file on Kelly's Veg share page?
Even if it were without the video files, it would be great help if I could disect the process
Just a thought.
I've found for myself I learn things quickly that way,I absorbed most the lessons in Spot's book that way.
Thank's Kelly for the veg share as well clip share pages! They are another great learning tool for us novices!
Chienworks wrote on 1/9/2004, 6:26 PM
I couldn't resist ...

http://www.vegasusers.com/vidshare/textdisp?chienworks-test-target
http://www.vegasusers.com/vegshare/textdisp?chienworks-test-target
TorS wrote on 1/10/2004, 3:50 AM
eric,
The veg is buried on a harddisk in a machine that is down with burst motherboard capacitors - waiting for me to replace them.
Here's the descrition from memory:
The letters FALL (font=impact) are made with the text generator on a track above the footage. In properties I have set the text colour to transparent. Background is transparent by default. Then I open effects, select outline and adjust the width as low as it will go. No feather. (On some fonts/sizes, when you put width=0.001 it changes to 0.000, but there's still a line drawn). Adjust the colour to your needs.
Now all you have to do is - with keyframes - pull the background colour from alpha to black (or whatever) and you will have reproduced that part of my little video. The rest you will be able to figure out yourself - certainly if Kelly uploads his veg.
Tor

Chienworks wrote on 1/10/2004, 5:34 AM
The .veg file is uploaded there too. That's the second link i posted.
epirb wrote on 1/10/2004, 6:21 AM
Thanks guy's just did a sample per your input. all makes sense, quite easy really. I have one question that kinda pertians to this project as well as others.
Why can't you activate the sync cursor button when using the text generator for keyframes?

Anyhoo, it's lessons like this that help me improve on the
"ok now I want to do XXXXX" in my project" factor.
Thanks for the help!
Chienworks wrote on 1/10/2004, 6:57 AM
My guess is that it was an oversite when the sync cursor feature was added in Vegas 4. Oh well, we can live without it. If you really want it though you could use track motion instead of the placement tab.