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The problem with doing it the way biggles suggests is that everything will be reduced in level including the logo.
If the logo is over a solid background, you can try using the Chroma Keyer and selecting this background as the transparent colour.
Alternately, bring the logo into Photoshop (or an equivalent paint program) and make it a transparent logo in there. In Photoshop, save it out as a *.psd file (native Photoshop format) and bring it back into Vegas. Put it on the timeline the way biggles suggests and all you'll see is the logo.

Mike

Mike,
Ok, I will try that.

Thanks for help,

John

Hi John,

Yes, Mike is correct, I was too quick on the keyboard - I'll claim it to be the result of late night editing followed by a quick flip into this forum to see what was going down :o)


I should have said to first take the logo into Photoshop (or a similar app) and make the background transparent , then save it in a format that preserves transparncy (eg in a PGN file), then add this version of the logo to the timeline.

Wayne

This is a tutorial from this forum posted in 7/2003 by Billy Boy. It works for me and have used it many times.

"Lets try a simple project step by step.

Go to Photoshop. File/New make it 200 x 200 pixels and be SURE you select transparent, the background should have the checkerboard background which indicates its transparent. Now in Photoshop's little floating tool box selct the top left tool and draw a little square. No need to be exact, fill up about half the the space. While it still has the marching ants, pick a solid color like red and use the paint bucket tool to color the square. You should now have a red square inside a transparent larger box. Click again anywhere in the checkerboard area to deselect. Now from File give this file any name and save as a Photoshop file (extension pdd). When you drop the Photoshop file on the timeline you should see the checkerboard background. If you don't, you didn't save it as as a Photoshop file or you did one of the steps wrong.

Open Vegas. Drop any video on the timeline. Add a new video track above. Drop the Photoshop file you just made on the top track, move your cursor over the Photoshop file and you should see your red square floating over your video and it shoudln't block out anything else. Use FX to size/move as you need.

Now for your logo or more complex shapes...

Its basically the same steps with a little twist. Start a new project. Color the background some ugly color. Now copy your logo on a new layer so the ugly color is the background.

On the layers menu select merge visible or flatten. For the next steps to work you must combine the layers which is what the merge or flatten step does. Pick Select on the Tool Bar. Select Color Range. Set the fuzziness to about 70. Use eyedropper to click anywhere in the ugly background color in the little work area which will appear as white, not the actual image. Click OK. You'll see the marching ants surround the two areas in the actual image. Since you selected the background we want to reverse that. On the Tool Bar click on Select, then Inverse which will select everything BUT the background.

Now select Cut from the Edit Menu. Now File/New (make it your frame size like 720x480. or just a little larger than your logo then click OK. Then Edit and finally Paste. You should now have your logo surrounded by a transparant boundry. Save as a Phtoshop file and again drop on a track above your video.

Doing it this way you don't have to mess with it at all in Vegas, or chroma keying. Just drop it in and you should be all set."

Good Luck, John