On screen text

damonholland wrote on 11/15/2005, 9:40 AM
I am making a video with interviews and am trying to come up with an interesting way of showing their name and hometown as a title in the lower portion of the screen as they begin to talk.

Is there a way on Vegas to generate some kind of motion behind the text? Like a flapping/floating banner or something?

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this kind of graphic?

Comments

TorS wrote on 11/15/2005, 9:58 AM
Put the text in a PIP (picture in picture) and you can do all sorts of things behind it.

See this little opener (wmv 1.6 MB). Everything (but the location shot and the audio) is done with the Vegas text generator.
Tor
garo wrote on 11/15/2005, 1:18 PM
Tor - was that footage taken at Trollvägen?

//Garo
TorS wrote on 11/15/2005, 1:33 PM
no, not Trollveggen, Kjerag in the Lysefjord. It's a 1000 m jump.
Tor
garo wrote on 11/15/2005, 3:36 PM
Do you have the whole film to watch? Do you know of a guy named Linus Rains?

//Gerrie
jrazz wrote on 11/15/2005, 4:47 PM
There are plenty of places to get lower 3rd's for cheap or free that will do exactly what you want them to do. ex. www.zkad.com or do a google search
PeterWright wrote on 11/15/2005, 5:02 PM
Ultimatte S includes some nice animated "lower thirds"
mjroddy wrote on 11/15/2005, 5:03 PM
Also check out the Graff Packs from VASST, as well as the Editor's Tool Kits from Digital Juice.
TorS wrote on 11/15/2005, 11:20 PM
Gerrie,
That WAS the whole film.
The footage was shot by my wife's brother in law. I grabbed it for its drama, when I needed a background for some text effect try-outs.

I don't know (of) Linus Rains. If he's a basejumper I'm sure he's been here because there is a great basejump community at Kjerag - a few hours from where I live. It's legal to jump in this country, and there seems to be good dicipline among the jumpers, keeping the rookies steady. Still, every now and again, accidents happen.
Jumpers don't often get shot, though.
Tor
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 11/16/2005, 7:38 AM
I would say that the Ultimate S 2 is a great way to get thirds for all sorts of situations. I've used them a bunch of times and they're just too simple - and they don't consume tons of space all over your HD.

Not to mention all the other things that it does for me. Plus then you're able to get your hands on other grafpaks too, and you end up getting a fairly inexpensive resource of lower thirds.

Dave