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  Cover up old Hi-8 Date Stamp

  Posted by Stephen Coulson on April 29, 2013 at 9:58 pm

  Hi,
  I’m editing together some old family video from 1996 shot on an old Hi-8 camcorder in Sony Vegas 12. My father ‘burnt-in’ the date stamp at the start of every day. I want to cover this up with a black background and overlay my own titles.

  The problem is I can’t figure out the best way to cover up the date stamp with a pain black strip. I’d ideally like it to fly in from the right and fly out again.

  See an example below:
  

  Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks

  Stephen

  Stephen Coulson replied 13 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Bob Peterson

  April 29, 2013 at 10:11 pm

  One simple way is to use a generated media solid black. You can mask it to make whatever shape you wish and move it around as you wish using the position control. Just put it on a track above your video.
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  Stephen Coulson

  April 29, 2013 at 10:31 pm

  Thanks,
  Yes that worked, had tried that before but hadn’t thought to resize the generated media. I have even got it flying in and out using the Event Pan / Crop.

  Thanks again.

  Stephen

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