Titles & Text (Background Option) - Suggestion for Developers

joelsonforte.br wrote on 1/4/2021, 8:41 AM

@VEGASDerek @VEGASPascal

The Titles & Text (Background option) fill the entire screen when enabled. In my opinion, this option should only fill around the selected text, in the same way that it happens in ProType Titler.  

This change would be very useful, for example, in the production of captions that use an opaque box around the text. And this is very difficult to do using Titles & Texts with the Background option filling the entire screen.  

I think that if the user wants to fill the entire screen with a background color he can use the Solid Color option.

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FayFen wrote on 1/4/2021, 9:15 AM

Indeed, it's a basic feature.

Jack S wrote on 1/4/2021, 9:16 AM

@joelsonforte.br Interesting. But it's not very configurable, is it? I prefer to take that little extra time and use a track motioned solid colour event for my text backgrounds.
But, I do see that it would be a time-saver in some circumstances.

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Former user wrote on 1/4/2021, 9:19 AM

JackS mentions my reluctance. The background that fills only text is too tight for most uses. I prefer using the full screen background option and the using Pan/Crop to fit the box the way I want. If they added this feature, it would need to be fully configurable.

 

Jack S wrote on 1/4/2021, 9:37 AM

@joelsonforte.br, @Former user If track motion or pan/crop doesn't float your boat, you could always apply Bezier Masking to Titles & Text to get this kind of result.

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joelsonforte.br wrote on 1/4/2021, 11:38 AM

@Jack S @Former user

Currently 90% of my work consists of subtitling. And the vast majority of my clients currently request subtitles with a dark opaque box for easy viewing.

I use Vegasaur to produce, import and export subtitles in .srt format. using Vegas Pro's native Titles & Text.

The Vegasaur extension supports Legacy Text and Titles & Text and greatly speeds up subtitling work, but does not support Protype Titler which is the only Vegas text editor that supports the opaque box.

I agree that Titles & Text's Background option must be fully configurable so that the user can make the necessary changes. For that reason I made this suggestion. Currently, the user has little configuration option.

ProType Titler has many more configuration options for this option. See below how simple it is to configure the Background option in ProType Titler.

 

Former user wrote on 1/4/2021, 1:46 PM

@Jack S I always have in my head that the masks are part of Pan/Crop and that is what I usually use so I can have the soft edges.