text, alpha overlay, and growing text?

SeanC wrote on 11/7/2002, 5:17 AM
Two questions: I'm playing with some underlays (lower thirds) and want it to fade up at the same time as the text that will be on top. I'm putting text on the top track, the lower 1/3 alpha one below, then the video one below that...so a "triple stack" for your Wendy's fans. (is that the most efficient way to line them up?). Is there a way to make the lower 1/3 underlay and the text to fade up and down at the same time other than adjusting each fade property independently? Somehow group them? Is there a way to weld them together as one element? (the underlay is animated).

Second, is there an easy way to make the title text grow a bit? I've done the effect on other systems, and wondering how to do it on Vegas. I'd like the letters to slowly spread apart. So the name President would slowly grow toward P r e s i d e n t on the screen.

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TorS wrote on 11/7/2002, 5:34 AM
The last question is dead easy:
In the text generator you'll find a slider called tracking under the properties tab. Make a keyframe point and set tracking to, say 2.000. The text will expand gradually. You could up-scale it, too. Same procedure, same tab, different slider.

The other things are outside my experience. But I have seen that one way to fade up track 3 is to fade down track 2. But to group an effect over several tracks - I don't know yet.

Tor
SonyEPM wrote on 11/7/2002, 8:56 AM
please send the project file (no media needed) to drdropout@sonicfoundry.com. It should be pretty easy to achieve this, but I need to see the project. I'll post results back here and send you back the modified project.
HPV wrote on 11/7/2002, 12:11 PM
I don't know of a way to make both events fade in one step. Easy and fast way to do this is to adjust one events fade, use ctrl/alt/arrow to park the cursor on the right edge of the fade, then drag the second events fade so it snaps to the cursor. Prefect fade sync in short order. "Enable Snapping" must be set in the options menu.

Craig H.