Text Movement

MarkCC777 wrote on 2/4/2004, 3:37 PM

Hello,
I'm new to Vegas, and after a few hour of playing around with it I am beginning to see its capabilities. But I have to say, when I first began playing with the software I was overwhelmed with its complexity. Of course I was used to Pinnacle Studio 7. This is the first professional quality video editing program Iv'e ever used. I'm beginning to love it now that I have figured out some of the basics.

Speaking of basics, I was wondering how I can get text to move across the screen in any direction. So far I've only been able to use the "credit roll" feature to get text to move across the screen, and that's very limiting. I am positive there's a way to get the text to move the way I want it to. How?

I would like to do the same with pictures as well. I do a lot of slide shows with still images. Any help with this "simple" problem would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Mark

Comments

Liam_Vegas wrote on 2/4/2004, 4:02 PM

Keyframes. Placement.

Edward Troxel has some good tips on this in his newsletters

PeterWright wrote on 2/4/2004, 7:27 PM

For moving pictures in and out, the easiest way is to overlap two pics then drop a Slide or other transition onto the overlap. There are many other ways too, e.g. using track motion and keyframes - have a play and if you have any specific questions get back here .....

jkb242 wrote on 2/4/2004, 7:39 PM

I am not by anymeans as good with Vegas as some of these bright and talented folks who frequent this forum, but having worked on a project not long ago using scrolling text ( I take it that is what you meant in your question) the eaiest way I think is to use the tesx roll plug in in vegas. It is possible to make text look just the way it does on a full length motion picture for credits at the end of a movie or at the beginning of the movie to introduce the subject matter or provide a brief intro to suppor the movie.

Is that what you are trying to do??

Look up text roll in the contents

TorS wrote on 2/4/2004, 11:40 PM

Mark,
Take a look at this little example (600kB - rightclick and save)
moving text

Everything is made with the text generator (well, the background is the noise generator). One track for each letter. And I used pan/crop to move them. I could have used the placement function in the text generator, but that doesn't show me where I am in relation to the other tracks. Keyframing is better in pan/crop.

Satish's 3D LE is another good tool for moving things on the screen. (It's a free plug-in.)

Tor

MarkCC777 wrote on 2/5/2004, 12:26 AM

Thank you for the tips! I will begin experimenting with the techniques you've told me about. The more I use Vegas the more I like it. It amazes me how simple it can be to make incredible videos. Making still image slide shows is a dream, and it looks VERY professional! I'm in the process of making a slide show for my one-year-old nephew. A video slideshow showing his first year. Looking at about 300 pictures!

One more question, when I go to render the project what format should I use if I'm going to import it into DVD Architect to make a DVD? Also, I'm using music that I first copied into Window Media Player, rather than taking it off the CD. Is there anything I should know about doing this? Will the audio render properly in this format? I realize that this might be a dumb question, but if I don't ask, I don't know>
Thanks,
Mark

cervama wrote on 2/5/2004, 8:25 AM

Mpeg2

Render video on ntsc dvd format.

then render audio using ac3 format

BE0RN wrote on 2/5/2004, 9:04 AM

You can also render the slideshow as NTSC MPEG 2, and put that directly into DVD Architect. When you go to burn the DVD, DVDArch will render the audio for you in AC-3 format.

As long as your audio is a .wav file, you shouldn't have any problems with that. If it's an .mp3, you might need a plug-in.

MarkCC777 wrote on 2/5/2004, 9:41 AM

Thank you for the advice. This project is very important to me and I want everything to go well. All of your help is making this much easier.

The audio is in the .wma format right now. Will this be a problem later? Or will DVD Achitect convert it to AC-3 from the .wma format?

Just trying to save myself from headaches later.

Mark

BE0RN wrote on 2/5/2004, 9:47 AM

I'm not sure if Vegas will accept the .wma, but I'm sure someone else here knows. I always convert my audion to .wav before putting it on the timeline in Vegas. If you do that, you're not going to have any problems.

MarkCC777 wrote on 2/5/2004, 11:11 AM

Thanks,
I will post the question in the Audio Forum and see what they have to say. The audio plays fine when I preview it in Vegas, I just don't know what will happen when I go to render it.

Mark

Chienworks wrote on 2/5/2004, 11:33 AM

It should render at least as good as it plays during preview. However, if you still have the CDs available you'll get better results by extracting WAV files instead. You can do this very easily and quickly right in Vegas.

MarkCC777 wrote on 2/5/2004, 12:10 PM

Thank you,
I think I may have solved the problem, or should I say, the people in this forum solved it for me. I was able to use Roxio Audio Central to convert my .wma files over to the .wav format. Hopefully this will work. If anyone thinks I should do it another way please let me know.
Mark

Chienworks wrote on 2/5/2004, 1:05 PM

For that matter, Vegas would have happily converted the .wma files to .wav for you too. Or, just use them as .wma.

MarkCC777 wrote on 2/5/2004, 1:15 PM

Thanks! That's good to know. Would there be any quality difference between .wma and .wav formats in the final render? I would imagine that the difference, if any, would be so slight that nobody would even notice. They sound identical in the preview.

Mark

Chienworks wrote on 2/5/2004, 1:36 PM

What you hear in preview is just about exactly the same as what you'll hear on the final render. Converting it to .wav won't help any, because any quality loss you may suffer has already happened when it was converted to .wma. That's why i suggested extracting to .wav from the original CDs if you can.