• VEGAS Pro

  Translucent Title Effect?

  Posted by Marcus Madarang on October 21, 2010 at 4:37 pm

  Hi everyone,

  I’m in need of some help. I would like to create a title at the bottom of the screen, on a translucent black background bar. I was told that this can be done in Adobe Premiere, but I was wondering if someone knew how to do this in Sony Vegas.

  Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  Lawrence Farr replied 15 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Stephen Mann

  October 21, 2010 at 5:10 pm

  There’s many ways to skin this cat in Sony Vegas Pro. I’ve done it using Photoshop to make my lower-thirds background, then generated text in Sony Vegas.

  I could probably do it all on Vegas but the client wanted a shape to the lower-thirds and wanted it to “fly” in from the side. It was fairly easy using Track Motion to make the lower-thirds fly-in.

  Just search the forum for “lower thirds” and you’ll find a lot of answers.

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com
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  Marcus Madarang

  October 21, 2010 at 5:21 pm

  Thank you! That is exactly what I was looking for. I didn’t know the nomenclature.

  Thanks again!
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  Dmitri Visser

  October 21, 2010 at 7:00 pm

  You could make a solid background with the media generators and cut it out with the mask tool. Then just bring the opacity a bit down and that’s it!
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  Lawrence Farr

  October 21, 2010 at 8:47 pm

  That’s what I do. Make a solid color, crop it vertically, move it down with the arrow keys (track motion) add some transparency and put text over it on another track.

  Here’s one I did for a demo with some animations on the overlay.

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