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  • How to draw a stright line?

    Posted by Ctmokvideo on August 15, 2007 at 5:37 am

    I generated a text and want to draw a straight line to point it to a building on the screen. It seems like something very simple but I don’t know how to do it. Can someone please advise. Thank you.

    Douglas Spotted eagle replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Terry Esslinger

    August 15, 2007 at 2:49 pm

    You could use an arrow from wingding fonts. Then reposition with pan and crop or track movement.

  • Ctmokvideo

    August 16, 2007 at 10:57 am

    Thank you, that works for me.

    But what if I want to draw some free form lines on the screen? What is the correct way/software to do it?

    Thanks again….c.t.mok

  • Terry Esslinger

    August 16, 2007 at 3:06 pm

    There is software or maybe hardware out there that can work like a telestrator but off hand I don’t know what they are.
    A work around could be to draw your line in a paint program of some sort with an alpha background and then save and import into Vegas.

  • Ctmokvideo

    August 17, 2007 at 1:25 am

    Thank you so much….c.t.mok

  • Douglas Spotted eagle

    August 17, 2007 at 5:03 am

    You could also use the Bezier mask tool to create lines with Generated Media

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