Yep I'm being a numb-brain when you think about it! Thanks for that.
Any ideas on achieving what I'm after?

Any help GR

Thanks

The text insert should reside on a timeline above the video line, depending on the effect. Treat the generated media as an event. Simply move it to the point where you'd like it to begin and it will be so. If you decide to animate the text, 2D or 3D, you will get either event motion or track motion GUIs which will allow keyframe control over the event.

Unless you're using Power CG graphics, which will allow you to modify some text attributes in a seperate, plug-in, keyframed window for rolls and crawls.

HTH, Darryl.

Play the section of the video where you want to insert the tiles in real-time.
Everytime you've got a title cue type the letter "M" which will insert a marker. This will give you real close references to the narration.


Insert a new video track Shift/CTRL/Q

go to the first marker, play to remind yourself what copy goes there.
Reline up to the first marker.
Right click and scroll to "Insert text"
Type your text, add size, font, color, drop shadow effects, etc.
Generally the text will default to 5 seconds long. If this is too short, left click the right edge of the type on the timeline and drag it out to the correct length.
Now go back to the head of the text and drag a 10 frame fade-up.
Now go to the end of the text and drag back a 10 frame fade-out.

Now Right click your finished type, and COPY it. Go to your next marker. Right click PASTE, but create a New Original from your copy. This will essentially give you all the same formatting, but then you can change the typed copy.

Hope this helps,
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Thanks guys, that 's a great help!
Cheers! :-))

Vegas is great for animation text but...have you ever heard of Newtek's Lightwave? This one is unbeatable. Can do whatever you think of.

Just dropping in a very off-the-wall two bits here, I often use Swish to create animated text. I just put it on a transparent (or usually black) background, render the text to video, and then just drop it into a project. It works GREAT and at higher rez actually can add a LOT of polish to what would otherwise be a kinda dull looking sequence of text (even just for name drops and text like that).

I also use Swish...Swish Max...to create text and object effects. If you have Vegas 5 or above, you don't have to save as an avi file, just an swf file that Vegas will import with full alpha. Not bad for a $50 program...
David Bird