Text Scrolling & Text captions on individual slides & Zoom

robert-lyons wrote on 7/29/2025, 10:18 AM

I have Vegas Pro 19. It replaced the now defunct ProShow Gold program, which I have used for years.

  1. I would like to make a slide show which has an opening of scrolling text (either straight scrolling or in the Star Wars fashion of scrolling, where the text goes up and shrinks as it goes up).
  2. I would also like to put captions on each still picture in the Vegas Pro application.
  3. Zoom in and out of each picture.

To see what I am talking about, please see the first few minutes of this video, which shows scrolling text and captions on each, in addition to the zoom feature.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d8GDMAkNWEm1XBO_31DOz4avn_6dfB3u/view?usp=sharing

This was created years ago in ProShow Gold. Can I do the same 3 functions in Vegas Pro 19? And how to do these 2 things?

 

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3POINT wrote on 7/29/2025, 10:33 AM

Of course you can do this in Vegas and even much more...for zooming effects take a look at the pan/crop tool.

jetdv wrote on 7/29/2025, 12:54 PM

robert-lyons wrote on 7/29/2025, 6:58 PM

Hello 3POINT. Thanks for the response. Where is this pan/crop tool? I looked under tools and it is not there.
Also, what about the scrolling Star Wars text and the captions?...where are they located?

 

Gid wrote on 7/29/2025, 8:24 PM

@robert-lyons The answer to your question could vary in many ways as there's more than one way to achieve what you want & without you knowing a few basics of the program you're going to struggle to understand the replies & suggestions you receive. Perhaps you should have a look through the Tutorials at the top of this page, this is the link if you can't find it https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/tutorials/

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3POINT wrote on 7/29/2025, 10:24 PM

@robert-lyons or use the slide show creator tool inside Vegaspro for quick production of slideshows. For a quick tutorial how to:

Do also search on YouTube for Tutorials for other features like pan/crop tool or how to create a star wars text effect, there are tons of Tutorials for VegasPro on YT.

jetdv wrote on 7/30/2025, 7:37 AM

@robert-lyons Take a look above for a free tool that will automate the process.

To access Pan/Crop, here's a couple of ways: