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How to overlay text? probably a 10 second solution
Hi,
Own Sony Vegas Pro 9, yet quite the amateur with video production.
Certainly this is a 10 second thing for someone who knows how, but have spent four hours trying to figure it out – will appreciate your help.
I have a video with a lot of rendered text. There’s a BIG TYPO that I need to cover up and insert the correction.
In other tools, it would be simple to identify the region to black out or cover with new text, or by a couple of layers of operations.
In Vegas, I can wipe out an entire screen, but don’t see any way to cover up the typo, much less cover and add replacement text.
Thank you for your help!
Stephen
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2 Replies
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Find the media event which has the text you need “blacked out.”
Click the Event Pan/Crop button on the media even in the time line.
Check the “Mask” box in the lower left hand corner of the Event Pan/Crop window.
Click the pen icon which says “Anchor Creation Tool” (or press D).
Use the pen to create a “box” around the text you do not want.
Click the Mode from Positive to Negative. [This should be right under “Path”]
Create a new video track on top of your current track. Add a Media Event and put your new and improved text over the masked event below it.
Profit?
This works well when you have a solid background color. If you need to match a solid color, create a video track underneath your masked media event track and add a solid color to the timeline via Text Media.
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THANK YOU!
This worked perfectly!
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