How to do a mission brief text effect

VEGAS Pro

How to do a mission brief text effect

Posted by Joey Kelly on July 23, 2011 at 4:17 am

Hello fellow video editors 🙂

I’m making a small home movie about a spy, and at the beginning, I want to have a text briefing for the mission blip across the screen. I’ve seen it in movies and video games, but I’d like to know how to do it in Sony Vegas PRO 10.

I hope I’m explaining this clearly enough for everyone.

Thanks for any help!

Joey Kelly replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

John Rofrano
July 23, 2011 at 1:20 pm

[Joey Kelly] “I want to have a text briefing for the mission blip across the screen. “

What does “blip across the screen” mean? Do you have a video example you can point to? If you mean have it look like it’s typing, the ProType Titler has several methods for revealing text including a character at a time and a line at a time. It sounds like you might want to start there.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
Joey Kelly
July 23, 2011 at 1:40 pm

I mean like in spy movies, where at the beginning to shows green computer text go across the screen saying something like:

Time: 3:43 pm
Place: State Capitol
Mission: Retrieval

Etc. etc.

I’ll check out the ProType title and come back to tell youif it worked.

Thanks!
John Rofrano
July 23, 2011 at 6:01 pm

See if what you mean is like this tutorial of mine:

How to make an animated title in Vegas using SWISHmax

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
Joey Kelly
July 24, 2011 at 1:16 am

That’s PERFECT! Except I don’t have Swishmax 🙁 and it costs money.

That’s exactly what I want, but is it possible to do it free?

Thanks!
John Rofrano
July 24, 2011 at 1:44 pm

[Joey Kelly] “That’s exactly what I want, but is it possible to do it free?”

You can use the ProType Titler to animate the typing of the text by animating the Selection parameter. This will give you type-on text. See the image below for the settings:

You won’t get the blinking cursor like SwishMax has but it is a free solution. 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
Joey Kelly
July 24, 2011 at 1:58 pm

AWESOME! I’ll try that!

Thanks for the fast replies!

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up

Creative Communities of the World Forums