Special Effect Font – Writing in Cursive

[Adam Rose esq.]

to do it properly, you would need to use a prog like After Effects
there are plenty of tutorials on how to achieve this with AE, but vegas is not the beast to use. Too much finicky detail.

[Terry Esslinger]

Take a look (Google) Bixelangelo from Outerspace-software

[Mary Waitrovich]

Not exactly sure if this would work, but if you are looking for a free, low tech solution, you could write on thin white paper with a dark marker, videotape the backside, not the front, and then reverse it in Vegas in pan/crop or track motion. If you lit the backside properly so you couldn’t see through the paper, I think it might work.

Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison

[Ron Lindeboom]

Sometimes low-tech is just so cool, Mary. :o)

I’ve done things like this before but not this exact solution. Good idea and a nice suggestion.

Ron Lindeboom

[Linda O’connell]

Mary,
When you say to videotape it..Do you mean to pan the camera from letter to letter? If so, what is the reason to videotape the backside and reverse it? Why not just videotape the front?
Sorry, I am new to this…

[John Magee]

I think she means…
Imagine someone writing on a frosty/foggy window with their finger – you’re on the outside looking at the letters appear, you don’t actually see what’s doing the writing. It will look reversed to you cause you’re on the outside, they are writing from the inside.
Now imagine thin paper on a piece of clear glass. The paper is the frost/fog. You videotape that writing event, then you flip the image in Vegas so it’s not backwards. If you light the backside properly, you won’t see through the paper.

[Mary Waitrovich]

Thanks John. Yes, that’s exactly what I meant and you said it so eloquently!
Mary