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Transparent Text in Vegas Pro 12
Hi. If this has already been answered, sorry for the re-ask….
I am interested in creating text in Photoshop for my title. I would like the area around the letters to be transparent, so I can lay it over my video. What is the proper file format to save it in Photoshop? File size? Etc.
Also… what about adding my font to Windows, so Vegas can access it and I can do the text in Vegas? Into which folder do I put the font?
Thanks for your advice. Sam
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By default, Text in all the Text generators in Vegas have a transparent background. Only the text itself adds anything to the output stream. Maybe that is not what you are asking as per transparent.
As for installing fonts, that can depend on Operating system version and I can only remember Windows 7+. Fonts are installed in the Windowsfonts folder. To install a font you have, right click the font file and choose install. Windows will copy the font to the fonts folder and do all other necessary tasks for installing.
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[Sam rosenthal] ” I would like the area around the letters to be transparent, so I can lay it over my video. What is the proper file format to save it in Photoshop? File size? Etc.”
Save it it any format that supports transparency. PNG, PSD and TGA are all good ones.
By file size, do you mean screen resolution? If yes, try and do it in whatever format you’re working in. Use the appropriate template as Photoshop has several to choose from, depending on what your needs are. -
This is a bit off the subject but a fabulous site for FONTS is:
https://www.fonts2u.com/category.html?id=2Hundreds of them all without cost.
Roger Bansemer
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Actually you don’t have to save it to any special format. You can drop a Photoshop PSD file right onto the Vegas Pro timeline and if the PSD project has transparency, Vegas will see it. You can also right-click-drag and drop and have Vegas spread the layers over tracks.
~jr
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Google has more fonts for us 😉
We have so much time and so little to do! / Willy Wonka
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>You can also right-click-drag and drop and have Vegas spread the layers over tracks.
John – If you mean each layer of the photoshop file appears in a separate track, then wow! That sounds pretty incredible.
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[Sam rosenthal] “John – If you mean each layer of the photoshop file appears in a separate track, then wow! That sounds pretty incredible.”
That’s exactly what John means. And yes “Wow“!
I think this has been available since VP10? Yup, just checked.
Now we can treat each and every “Layer” now a Track as being a Still or Video on its very own Track:
1] Track Motion using 2D or 3D – this is really splendid!
2] Event Pan/Crop
3] Track (“Layer”) Compositing
The possibilities are almost endless – it’s been a real Creative Coup.
If you get some samples of you using this, it’ll be great to see!
Have fun!
Grazie
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[Sam rosenthal] “John – If you mean each layer of the photoshop file appears in a separate track, then wow! That sounds pretty incredible.”
Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. You can make layered files in Photoshop and transfer the layers to Tracks in Vegas Pro and then animate them. Very cool indeed!
~jr
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yes! it works beautifully
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