Newb Text question

chudson wrote on 6/26/2010, 2:19 PM

Following the tutorial about adding text, I drag the text with transparant background over a video clip, however now when the text is displayed, the background is black and video cannot be seen. What am I doing wrong here? Why is transparent background now black?

TIA

CH

Comments

Former user wrote on 6/26/2010, 2:45 PM

Are you putting the text on a new track?

You don't drag it on the same track as the video.

Dave T2

rs170a wrote on 6/26/2010, 2:55 PM

And the new text has to be above the video track, not below it.
Vegas reads things from the top down so it wouldn't be seen if it was underneath the video track.

Mike

chudson wrote on 6/26/2010, 5:49 PM

Ahh, Bingo
Thanks guys. Strangly enough, when going through the Vegas tutorial, It says to drag directly onto the video track. Inserting a new video track on top of the video track did the trick.

Chienworks wrote on 6/26/2010, 7:05 PM

I would guess the tutorial means "a" video track, not "the" video track. Since you can have an unlimited number of them, it's hard to identify which one is "the" one.