Some advice on how to create this effect?

[John Rofrano]

Hi Kevin,

> 1) I can’t seem to simulate that beginning transition with the text. I don’t know how he gets the text to come in from the left so smoothly like that while zooming out.

The text is zooming out while being revealed by a mask. The two give the illusion that the text is moving left to right but it actually isn’t. It’s just zooming straight back.

This can be accomplished by adding a Negative Mask using the Pan/Crop Bezier Mask tool. In Pan/Crop, check the Mask checkbox on the timline at the bottom and create a rectangular mask that covers the entire frame. Set the Mode to Negative and the Feather type to Both and give it a 5 – 10% feather. Then animate the mask to move across the frame using two keyframes revealing the text as it goes.

> 2) The obvious. Do you guys have any idea on how to simulate the overlapping of different clips and scenes like he has done there?

Place multiple clips on multiple tracks above one another (it looks like there are only 2 in the video) and set the Opacity of the top clip to 50%. (hover your mouse at the top of the event and click to pull down the opacity slider) Adjust the opacity to the look you’re after.

> 3) How did he get the text to come down during the clover scene at the end? Did he simply edit their Placement and such in the Video Media Generators menu?

This could have been done with Pan/Crop zoom and placement or it could be done with Track Motion. You could even use 3D Track Motion. All will work.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Kevin Smith]

Thanks a lot. But one thing, I’m using the Masking tool and I’m getting the effect that I want in a sense. But this is what my video comes out to be:

https://files.filefront.com/Troubleshootwmv/;11323064;/fileinfo.html

Instead of the text being revealed by a white screen to reveal the text, it’s the noise texture that I use to generate the text image that moves away kinda.

Also you might notice those black bars on the side. Those appeared when I rendered this, but it doesn’t happen when I attempt to render any of my FRAPs footage that I have at 1440×900. In my rendering options it renders to 720×480, which is what this Media is set at in the Generated Media Window. Any ideas on how to fix those black bars?

[John Rofrano]

You’re getting there but don’t let your eyes be tricked. You have left-to-right motion on your text and he does not. Look carefully at his video. Drop it onto the Vegas timeline and use it as a guide. His text is simply zooming straight back while the wipe goes left to right.

If we use his timings we see the following:

00:00:00 – Start Zoom out and wipe right
00:01:10 – Wipe complete zoom slows down
00:06:29 – Zoom out complete
00:07:00 – Zoom in starts
00;09:21 – Zoom in complete
00:09:22 – Video starts

Your version doesn’t have the text changing speed. You want to zoom fast until the wipe is complete and then slow way down and have it settle in slowly. The text is never still. It moves out until it changes direction and moves in again. Also, make your title all caps. It just looks better and gives more room for the background to show through the text.

> Instead of the text being revealed by a white screen to reveal the text, it’s the noise texture that I use to generate the text image that moves away kinda.

You should place the mask on your text track so that the text gets masked and not the background. It looks like he’s using 4 tracks. Your timeline should look something like:

• Track 1: Empty, Parent Motion controls all zooming
• Track 2: Text media, Child of Track 1, Composite Mode: Multiply (Mask), add Pan/Crop Mask
• Track 3: Noise Texture media: Child of Track 2
• Track 4: Solid White media

Since the text background is moving with the text and they are on two separate tracks I assume he has added the 4th top track and made track 2 a child so that both 2 & 3 move together.

Like this:

+Track 1: Parent
+–Track 2: Child of 1
+—-Track 3: Child of 2
+Track 4: Parent

> Also you might notice those black bars on the side. Those appeared when I rendered this, but it doesn’t happen when I attempt to render any of my FRAPs footage that I have at 1440×900. In my rendering options it renders to 720×480, which is what this Media is set at in the Generated Media Window. Any ideas on how to fix those black bars?

Set your Vegas project to the same size as you will render. Then when you insert generated media, Vegas will create the media at the render size and aspect. You might want to set your project to 1440×900 so that all of the media and video are the same size. To fix this, open the generated media and change it’s size to match the render size or change it to 1440×900 to match the video media.

I would be happy to send you a project (veg) file if you’d like so you can dissect it and see how it all comes together.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Kevin Smith]

I tried what you said, but wasn’t able to get it to work exactly. Instead I combined the text and the noise through rendering, and then used Pan/Crop to get the desired effect. Here’s the output:

https://files.filefront.com/Untitled3wmv/;11329466;/fileinfo.html

Getting closer. But I wasn’t able to zoom in all the way like he does, after a certain point the Pan/Crop preview window just shows a white screen when I zoom in too much. And also it’d be great if you could upload a .veg, I’d really like to see how you accomplish this effect with the parenting and all.

[John Rofrano]

Sometimes you need to fool the eye. Movie making is all about selling the “illusion”. If you can’t zoom in enough with Track Motion you can help it out by resizing the Pan/Crop to be a little bigger at the same time.

Here is the composite as a project called Grolley.veg for you to study.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com