• VEGAS Pro

  Text box issues

  Posted by Jarell Cardoza on February 23, 2010 at 2:35 pm

  Hello all,

  I am new to the Sony Vegas Pro 9.0 platform (I have been using Adobe Premiere Elements and Final Cut Express) and am having an issue with text boxes. I can insert text just fine, however I don’t see anyway to creat a box behind the text to make it show up better. That is to say, I want to create a rectangle of solid color, to appear behind my white text. If my description is at all confusing, for which i apologize, here is an example of what I’m looking to do, only in a solid color…
  https://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_title/24.gif

  Thanks in advance for any help with this issue, it is much appreciated.

  Kay Lean replied 16 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Terry Esslinger

  February 23, 2010 at 4:52 pm

  Place your text with alpha backgound on track one.
  Then construct your box using generated media or what ever and sizing with event pan and crop on track two. You can move the box where you want with track motion. There are actually many different ways to do this. Thats one of the good things (and sometimes bad things) with Vegas.
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  Kay Lean

  March 1, 2010 at 11:34 am

  The other thing you could do is go to the Effects tab of the text box and add a large feather. This will make a box, albeit not a rectangular one, around the text. I use this for YouTube videos and it renders the text quite readable

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