Hiyah T!

Do you fade in and fade out with your video clips - yes? Well you can do the same with a text clip or generated media. Like your video clip/s at each end of the clip - say the right hand end, just get your cursor to that top right hand corner and you'll see a tiny trinagle thingy - yeah? This is a fade option. Hold down the right or left button - can't remember which at the moment - on mouse an "pull" the now appearing cursor left. This will give you a fade out of that text. Likewise at the other end - the begining - you can do the same. Hope my explanation hasn't confused you too much, apologies if it has.

Better still if you set up a particular text event and give it's own track then track motion and pan/crops and all the other stuff you can have to play with. I do lots of text stuff - yeah yeah, I do talk a lot don't I! - and once I got my head around this, I was flying - WHat am I thinking of!!! Have you got Edward's downloadable Monthly Newsletters? They come in PDF format and give a mass of tips and tricks to help you on your way. Let me see if I can find a link . . . don't go away . .. . still looking . . . .

Here you go:

http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/help/kb/kb_tutorials.asp

This KB is massive and provides you with a wealth of tutes and other stuff. The tutes are in the form of dowloadable veggies and the like. TYis means you can import the veggies and see exactly how things are done.

Creative Cow stuff:

http://www.creativecow.net/index.php?forumid=24

Click on any of the photos of the guys at the top of the main Vegas post list and you'll e spoilt for choice - massive information here.

There's also the downlable Vegas Tips and Tricks - JETDV [ Edward Troxel ]. Do a search for this here and you might be able to get yourself on JETDV's Monthly Newsletter download.

BillyBoy's tutorials:
wideopenwest.com/~wvg/

DMN Forum:
www.dmnforums.com/cgi-bin/displaywwugindex.fcgi?forum=sonic-foundry_vegas


PHEW!!! A lot for you to look at - yeah?

Have fun!

Grazie