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  • Text Background not Transparent?

    Posted by Tristin Silkias on June 29, 2009 at 12:17 am

    Under the Media Generators tab then under the text tab. I drag and drop the default text onto one of my video clips. The background by default should be transparent. However, in the preview only the text shows with a black background, and it is set so that the background is transparent (alpha= 0) It also does that when I render the project. Any ideas on why it is not transparent (it would help if I could get a quick reply, because i am doing this for a video that I have to make)

    John Gordon replied 17 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Tristin Silkias

    June 29, 2009 at 12:57 am

    Actually, that problem is fixed, now the problem is that when i render the video in best quality, the text bg isn’t transparent anymore, but if I render as draft then it becomes transparent. Any suggestions?

  • Mike Kujbida

    June 29, 2009 at 2:28 am

    Check to make sure you didn’t accidentally create a keyframe or two on the text generator timeline.
    What happens when it’s not transparent?
    Does it go black, to a different colour, …?

  • Tristin Silkias

    June 29, 2009 at 4:34 am

    When it’s not transparent it goes black. There weren’t any keyframes,and just to make sure, I deleted the title track. Then I reinserted the video track (deleted what i had in there and reinserted) and then added the title track and the same problem occured.

  • Mike Kujbida

    June 29, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Sorry but you’ve got me stumped as I’ve never heard of that behaviour before.
    What version of Vegas are you using?

  • Tristin Silkias

    June 29, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

  • Tristin Silkias

    June 30, 2009 at 12:52 am

    Do you know of anyone who might know how to fix this?? Can you let people know, because there are no other responses 🙁

  • John Gordon

    June 30, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    have you changed any compositing modes anywhere, is the text on tracks above the other events, are there gaps in the events where you would see a black background…. just shooting out things off the top of my head, without a veg file or a clip of what you are seeing, I would dare say that most will have a tough time troubleshooting this for you.

    John

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