Adding decriptions to photos

[Mark Greenwood]

When you say ” I’d like to add a short description for each photo” do you mean that you would like some Text to appear within the Video? Or do you mean you would like to add MetaData to the photo – if the latter then Vegas is not the place to do this….

[Daan Odinot]

I’d like Text to appear within the Video.

[Mark Greenwood]

There are a couple of ways to do this reasonably quickly –

Create a new video track and then setup the Title for the first picture – with fades / video fx / pan moves etc – however you want that one to look. Then highlight that Event on the time line and click Edit/Copy (ctrl c – PC or command c – Mac) Then Paste onto the same Video Track at the position where the next picture is and click Edit/Paste (ctrl v – PC or command v – Mac) and then choose to make a new copy of the source media. You can then just edit the Text on that copy of the Title.

If you want an automated way of doing this – currently vegas does not have a way to do this – I guess a script could be written to create a Title based on some MetaData based on the Picture – but that again would rely on you having the description you wanted within the MetaData of the picture anyway….

[Daan Odinot]

Ah yes, thanks for your response!

I see Vegas uses some kind of seperate transparant layer to get the text on your video. I had thought I’d have to add something within the video properties (shows how I’m just trying figure out the basic things with this program :)). Thanks, it’s now just a matter of getting the right text position/size.

Daan

[Edward Troxel]

You might look at the “Quick Labels” tool in Excalibur.

Edward Troxel