Placing a title over a .jpg image

vegasnewbie wrote on 1/26/2004, 8:20 PM

I have a .jpg image in the media pool and I wish to use this as the background for a title. Is there a simple way to do this using the Vegas titling engine?

Thanks very much for your help.

Fred

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BillyBoy wrote on 1/26/2004, 8:22 PM

Easy as pie. Add what's commonly called a overlay track. Just a new track on TOP of your main one. Then click on the Media Generations tab, text, drag and drop the default, then write your text.

vegasnewbie wrote on 1/27/2004, 1:06 AM

"Easy as pie. Add what's commonly called a overlay track. Just a new track on TOP of your main one. Then click on the Media Generations tab, text, drag and drop the default, then write your text. "

Thanks very much BillyBoy for this explanation, I have now got this to work. The text video length needed to be trimmed to match the length of the jpeg picture file and then the main video jumped along a bit and needed to be trimmed back to close the gap. I put the text into a new Video Track (1) and the jpeg along with the other video in Video Track 2. I guess you could have two dedicated video tracks for the titles when you are placing a title over a jpeg file? However, it seems to work fine with just 2 video tracks.

Regards, Fred

Grazie wrote on 1/27/2004, 1:50 AM

Yup . . . Just remember: Track1 appears over Track2; Track2 appears over Track3; Track3 appears over Track4 . . .and so on and so on . . Vegas has unlimited tracks. Don't limit yourself in the way you are suggesting .. there is so much more available . .

With this in mind you can then get on with some amazing video"effects" and your independant tracks can be change and altered. get your head around this one and whoaaaa . .lots to do. I once had a very complex Text project where I was using 17 Tracks! I had text zooming and panning all over the place . .think layers, as you would in any decent graphics package, and you wont go far wrong . .

Have fun,

Grazie

PeterWright wrote on 1/27/2004, 4:42 AM

Fred, now you've got the title over the picture, try fading it in and out - place the mouse pointer at the top left corner of the video event till the icon changes to a quadrant, then drag it right to create a fade in of whatever length you drag to.

Do the "mirror" of this at the far end for a fade out

If you drop a transition over the dissolve ramp - it will change from a fade to whatever transition.

If you double click on the ramp you will create a region, which you can loop play and watch the preview change "live" as you drop transitions, fiddle with settings etc.

that's enough for now

vegasnewbie wrote on 1/27/2004, 5:47 PM

Thanks very much for these replies. I have found that, when you have 2 or 3 video tracks, it is quite hard to insert the text and the image so that they line up exactly with the main video. I guess this is an acquired art! It certainly seems easier to insert a title that is on an ordinary background, rather than over a .jpeg image! I found that with inserting text over a jpeg image, one or other of the video tracks needed trimming, and I sometimes found this was quite difficult to achieve.

Regards, Fred

PeterWright wrote on 1/27/2004, 8:57 PM

I don't quite understand the problem. Are you saying that you want the jpg to only occupy part of the frame, and that video is also seen at the same time?

Vegas has excellent tools for placing things exactly where you want (e.g. for text, use the "placement" tab in the Text Generator), so if you can clarify what effect you're trying to achieve, I'm sure it can be made easy for you.

Peter

Grazie wrote on 1/27/2004, 11:43 PM

I too am having a tad of a problem understanding your problem - sorry . . could you put it another way, please?

Grazie

TorS wrote on 1/28/2004, 6:06 AM

I apologize for my learned friends :-)
Ctrl-Shift Arrow left or right will move the cursor to the first/last frame of the next event on the timeline (selected track). If you have "Snap to" enabled, dragging a text event (on another track) will make it snap to the cursor. There you go. Aligned.
Tor

vegasnewbie wrote on 1/28/2004, 2:37 PM

Thanks very much for these replies. The main problem was that the auto ripple was turned on. When I turned the auto ripple off and then used the “insert time” command to allow for the length of the text media that I was inserting, I managed to place a title over a jpeg image without any problems. I had to trim the length of the jpeg image to the same size as the text media, and I was able to produce the title that I wanted.

Regards, Fred