Animated channel logo

[John Rofrano]

First you should get the graphic to be the actual size. After you drop it on the timeline, open Pan/Crop and set the width and height to match your project properties (which I assume are probably 1920×1080). That will display the graphic at it’s original size. Then use Track Motion to scale it down and position it in place.

If you are making a lower third that is a composite of several tracks, I would create it in a separate project and then drop that .veg file into your main projects timeline any time you need it. This is called a “Nested Project” in Vegas Pro. It will make your multi-track lower third behave as if it were a single piece of media. You can then reuse it over and over again in multiple projects quite easily.

~jr

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[Stefan Schramm]

John,

thanks for jumping in. I did what you suggested and changed the size of the graphic which is now 100×100 px. After I drop that into my timeline (which indeed is 1920×1080) I can’t put in these dimensions for some reason. Any number higher than 800 is reset to 800. It looks like it has to do with the size of the graphic, since I *can* put 1920×1080 for the original graphic which is 800×800 px. I disabled the aspect ratio which defaults to square, but that doesn’t do the trick.

>> If you are making a lower third that is a composite of several tracks, I would create it in a separate project and then drop that .veg file into your main projects timeline any time you need it. This is called a “Nested Project” in Vegas Pro.<< Yep, that was the idea and this works too well almost. Because the text in the lower third gets rendered into the file as well. Of course I can disable that track in the source, but then I have to animate a new text track over again every time I drop the project file into the timeline. But even if I need to do that, using just the logo track is still a major improvement. Thanks again, Stefan Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[John Rofrano]

Yea, it’s not entirely optimal but it gets by. You could have the text in the nested project and copy the nested project each time and then right-click and choose to Open the Project and edit the text each time. Then you would keep the automation.

~jr

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[Stefan Schramm]

Yep, that’s a good idea. Thanks again!

Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[Stefan Schramm]

I’m back with my channel logo project. As it turns out, I was given an updated logo to use. Even though the logo is as small as it should be, the image size is 1920×1080 with transparency, so I can put it on its own track. Works ok, until I try animating it. I want to grow/shrink the logo, but the center of the animation, of course, is now the entire screen, rather than only the visible portion of the logo. The effect is that the entire logo moves around the screen when I resize it.

In the animation window, I can’t find a way to specify the center which I’d like to put in the middle of the logo. Can this be done or do I need to create a cropped version of the logo?

Thanks,
Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional

[John Rofrano]

[Stefan Schramm] “In the animation window, I can’t find a way to specify the center which I’d like to put in the middle of the logo. Can this be done or do I need to create a cropped version of the logo?”

Yes it can. Follow the tutorial on my web site to see how to change the pivot point:

3D Track Motion: Changing the Pivot Point

That should get you what you want although it will be flat when you rotate it..

if you really want to impress your client you might want to make their logo 3D! I show you how using Boris Continuum Complete Extruded EPS plug-in. Here is a Boris TV episode when I show an example using Final Cut Pro X in which I use automobile manufacturer logos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY6bcTK_xhY
…and here the an example in Vegas Pro. I show Extruded EPS at 7:50 into the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzOuoL9JHI
BCC Extruded EPS can be purchased as part of the 3D Objects Continuum Units if you don’t have or want to buy all of Boris Continuum Complete.

~jr

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[Stefan Schramm]

Excellent tutorial!

Thanks John,

Stefan

Vegas 12, Windows 7 Professional