Text over video

Bri888 wrote on 7/21/2003, 11:41 AM
I am having a problem getting my text to appear over my background video. Seems so easy with Premiere. When I drag my text to the timeline over the background I want it also includes the coloered background, eliminating my video entirely. I possibly have to make my background video transparent. This should be easy, any suggestions.

Brian

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kameronj wrote on 7/21/2003, 11:46 AM
Not sure what you are doing to get what you want....but VV isn't Premiere (for starters).

When putting text on top of video (or anything on top of video) remember VV is a top down editor. So if you have text you want to lay ontop of video...the text has to be on the layer above the video.

In other words, the video should be track #2 and the text should be track #1.

If the text is track #2 and video track #1...then the video will be in front of the text (like sending graphic object "to the back or front" in graphic editors like PowerPoint, PhotoEditor, etc).

You can play around with this in test by just taking a video track on layer 2 and throw any text on layer one and then you can see what I mean. Then play around with moving the text on layer 1 and change colors and stuff. Once you get the hang of it - it's all pretty straight forward.
Grazie wrote on 7/21/2003, 1:38 PM
The next thing you could try is playing with Text on more than track. You end up with multiple text that can be floated backward, forward, up down, spin, fold all sorts of stuff!

Grazie
ArmyVideo wrote on 7/21/2003, 1:56 PM
The VV interface takes some getting used to coming from priemere, but I like it 100x's better. Just think of the time line as the layers pallette in Photoshop. Speaking of which, you can generate your titles, lower thirds, and what not in PS, save them as .psd files and VV will recognize the transparent sections as an alpha channel. This is great for adding layer effects like drop shadow, bevel and the like. You can also edit the original file and it is automaticly updated in your VV project... very nice feature.
I can't speak about the new Premeire Professional that just came out, but I move to VV from Premiere 6.5, and haven't looked back.
Jsnkc wrote on 7/21/2003, 4:23 PM
Also make sure to set your background to transparent so you will be able to see your video behind the text.
TorS wrote on 7/21/2003, 5:05 PM
The text background is transparent by default. Put you text on a track above the video and you'll be allright.
Tor