So you want shadow on your scrolling titles, do you?

TorS wrote on 5/18/2004, 12:34 AM

Again and again people have complained about the lack of shadows on scrolling titles in Vegas 4. Here's how you can do it: Make the scrolling titles in your selected colours on a transparent background. Make sure you proofread, adjust length and all that, because later changes will be much more laborius.
Copy the event to a track below. Make the new text black. Already you should see a sharpening of the text in preview. Shift the copy a little with pan/crop (don't over-do it). You now have shadow on your scrolling titles.
Tor

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Spot|DSE wrote on 5/18/2004, 6:01 AM

There is an easier way, if you'd like it.
Parent a new track above the credit roll (child) and add a shadow to the parent.

TorS wrote on 5/18/2004, 6:08 AM

Good. That takes care of having to perform all later changes twice. But I think you mean "add shadow to the child" - not the parent, don't you? That's the only way I could get it to work.
Tor

smhontz wrote on 5/18/2004, 7:22 AM

Can't you just turn on the shadow in the Track Motion dialog for the track containing the text, adjust to taste, without making a new track? Or is that not what you're looking for?

JohnnyRoy wrote on 5/18/2004, 7:45 AM

Yea, in Vegas 4 I always added Track Motion to the title track and turned Shadow on. It works just fine. You can keyframe it to turn it on and off whenever you want. You can even change the color of the shadow over time or have the shadow drift farther away over time which gives the illusion of the text floating higher off the screen.

~jr

TorS wrote on 5/18/2004, 12:23 PM

I thought I was being clever :-)
Tor