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  Text on a moving background?

  Posted by Charity Meinhart on October 11, 2011 at 7:08 pm

  You guys helped me so much before I thought you could do it again- or at least point me in the right direction.

  I wanted to “write” some text on a rock in a video that is moving slightly, and I’m not sure where to start. I started by putting a photoshopped version of what I wanted on the top of the video clip for now, but I’m not sure where to go from here (not even sure what to call this to ask! 🙂

  The video is here: https://www.vimeo.com/30213991 at:05-:08.

  Thanks in advance for taking a look!

  ~Charity

  Everywhere I go, there I am.

  John Rofrano replied 14 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  October 11, 2011 at 11:26 pm

  [Charity Meinhart] “I started by putting a photoshopped version of what I wanted on the top of the video clip for now, but I’m not sure where to go from here (not even sure what to call this to ask! :-)”

  You need a plug-in that does match moving. Boris FX Continuum Complete 7 (BCC7) has a Match Move plug-in. I show you how to use it in this Creative COW podcast / Boris TV video:

  BCC Match Move in Sony Vegas Pro

  Alternately, you would have to keyframe the motion using Pan/Crop or Track Motion in Vegas. It would be very time consuming but it is possible.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Charity Meinhart

  October 12, 2011 at 3:48 am

  Thanks John. Can’t wait until I have the cash for Boris stuff.

  I’ll see if I can keyframe it with out completely losing my mind 🙂

  Everywhere I go, there I am.
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  Daniel Schälander

  February 21, 2012 at 8:04 pm

  Is there any other way of doing this without buying the Boris FX or keyframing the whole thing?
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  Mike Kujbida

  February 21, 2012 at 8:28 pm

  [Daniel Schälander] “Is there any other way of doing this without buying the Boris FX or keyframing the whole thing?”

  You can export the section as a series of images, bring them into Photoshop, paste the required text on each still, save them and bring it back into Vegas as an image sequence.
  In Charity’s example, 4 seconds is only 120 frames so, as long as it’s only one piece of text, it shouldn’t take too long to do.
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  John Rofrano

  February 22, 2012 at 3:15 am

  I would think that keyframing would be much faster then exporting to Photoshop and editing every picture.

  But to answer Daniel’s question; if you expect the text to move, you need to tell it how to move. There is no getting around that. Either motion tracking, keyframing, or editing every frame in Photoshop, you have to do some work to get the text to move.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com

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