Titles with Cool 3d Studio

edubah wrote on 3/10/2003, 4:24 PM
I know that this is not a SF product, but I hope that some out there have some expertise with this. I am trying to create a 3d title that will work in Vegas using Ulead's Cool 3D studio. I want to create the title to run over a video clip (track 1 title, track 2 video), much the same way 2D titles work inside Vegas. I have been able to make this work to some degree two different ways. The first is I rendered the clip as an avi. file in vegas then imported the clip into cool 3d and did the entire thing in there. That worked fine for the title, but seemed to slow the speed of the video clip down somehow. The other way was that I made the title clip in cool 3d, did "export to video overlay" as an avi file. I then brought up the file in vegas, placed it over the video clip and under the compositing mode selected "add" with the "make compositing child" selected. I didn't like the way that looked either, it made the title much more transparent than I wanted. I hope I am being clear enough, I am a hobbyist and a complete novice to both vegas and this graphics stuff. I don't even know if cool 3d is the best software for this or not, it was just the first demo I downloaded and started to use.

I did a search in this forum, and this was addressed to a point, but I tried the advice given and still couldn't get it to work. Thanks in advance for any input

Edubah

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/10/2003, 5:24 PM
Don’t use compositing mode. When you save in Cool 3D Studio as an overlay it adds an alpha channel to the video. Just place the Cool 3D avi on a track above your video and go into the properties and turn on the alpha channel.(i.e., right click, Properties, then Media tab, and finally Alpha channel and set it to something other than none.)

~jr
edubah wrote on 3/10/2003, 6:08 PM
thanks alot....that did the trick, it works just fine now

edubah
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/10/2003, 8:01 PM
Glad it worked. I updated the Vegas Tips on my web site to include this.

~jr
edubah wrote on 3/10/2003, 8:54 PM
can I ask what your website is, I would like to visit it....every little bit helps. Thanks

edubah
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/10/2003, 9:22 PM
Sure. If you click on the UserName of people it brings you to a page which sometimes has the person's real name and optionaly a web link to their site. Mine is at http://www.johnrofrano.com/ Select the Video link on the left navigation bar. (or any other link you find interesting) ;-) I really need to update it for Vegas 4 and make some of the tips into full blown tutorials. I haven't had much time to work on it lately but I try my best to at least keep adding one or two things now and then. Enjoy.

~jr
biggles wrote on 3/11/2003, 7:03 PM
Hi John,

really appreciate the way you share you knowledge (as I did when I was chasing Studio knowledge).

You might want to touch up the HTML in your section on 'Editing Video & Voice without affecting Music' under your 'Vegas Tips' - you have some HTML tags enclosed in '<' and '>'.

Sorry for the public post but I couldn't find an email address on your web site.

Again, thanks for the way you share your expertise!

Wayne
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/12/2003, 7:39 AM
Wayne,

Thanks I didn’t even notice. I use NetObjects Fusion to maintain the site and it’s a strange beast. I cut and pasted from Word and I guess it assumed I wanted the HTML tags as text instead of interpreting them. I just fixed it. You can reach me at hotmail under the name john_rofrano. I just added this to the home page. (sorry)

I remember back in my days with the DC10+ that I was searching the net for information and tips and was surprised to see several users with sites that were very helpful. I thought that when I knew enough to share that it would be nice to give a little back to the community and so I’ve been slowly posting my knowledge there. I really need to give it a facelift and organize it better.

I want to eventually document my workflow there. I think it would be interesting to see the various tools that people use to get from DV to DVD. I just haven’t had the time lately. One good tutorial is worth a 1000 reference books. ;-)

~jr