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compositing
I hope someone can help me out with a basic Vegas (with the basic Vegas version) question. Even though I have almost 15 years experience shooting and editing tv news, some of these “high-end” editing concepts confuse me. Take compositing, for example. I have read the documentation help, played around with it, and scoured the Basics forum, but can’t find the solution I need. I have a white background on Video (track 4) and a graphic, screen right, on Video Overlay (track 3). On Text (track 2) I have one word, screen left. I created another track, track 1, for another word that would fade up under (physically) and after (in time) the first word is on screen. I would like a third word to fade up and under the second word. Unfortunately, my version only lets me create 4 tracks of video. I tried in multiple ways to composite two of the tracks by parenting or childing the tracks and dragging that track over the first one. All I can get Vegas to do is fade the tracks together on the new track. I appreciate any help anyone could give me.
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Put all your text on one track. Use three events.
First event: Only the first word.
Second Event: First and second word.
Third Event: All three words.Put a fade on the first one. Then overlap the second with the first and the third with the second. Each word will fade in. (In the second and third events, there’s really more than one word fading in, but the “extra” words are simply fading into themselves.)
Tricky thing might be getting the positions to match since the placement option for the text tool is kind of klutzy. Easiest solution would be for all three events to have all three words and use Pan / Crop for each one to show only the words you want for that event. Be sure to set both “Maintain Aspect Ratio” and “Stretch to fill frame” to NO.
If you want to save yourself another track, take that graphic into a graphics application and add the white background there.
Rob
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Hey Rob – Thanks so much for the quick response. That did the trick . . . I really overthought that one. It took a little time to line up all the words and time it out right, but it’s all good now. Thanks again from a noobie.
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