Using text in Veg13

[George Dean]

Rob, do you have Quicktime installed? Do you have ER Media Tool Kit?

Best Regards……George

[George Dean]

Rob, on some mov files this may work, probably not but worth a try it is quick and easy. Change the client 90 second mov clip file extension from ‘mov’ to ‘mp4’ and see if that will play in Vegas Pro 13. Just an old trick that worked on a limited type of .mov’s.

Best Regards……George

[Rob Lindsay]

No, didn’t work. Thanks, tho. I’m going to leave it to the client to fix this.

Vegas 13.545
Dell Windows 10
Intel 6700 quad CPU
16 Gigs RAM
3 Gig GPU

[Dimitrios Papadimitriou]

You can have multi colored text with hitfilm express which is free and I use it a lot for text, you can export frames as transparent pngs making it really easy to overlay in vegas. Here is a couple recent ones I made that would not have been fun to make it vegas but relatively easy in hitfilm.

[Rob Lindsay]

Thanks, Dimitri — I’ll look for it.

Vegas 13.545
Dell Windows 10
Intel 6700 quad CPU
16 Gigs RAM
3 Gig GPU

[Dimitrios Papadimitriou]

Sorry just finally read the whole post. A lot of .mov’s don’t play nice with vegas, and the older any editor version is codec support gets worse not better. Converting it into mp4 may or may not work, if it needs a transparency I assume it has one but maybe not, perhaps you can get away with using chroma keyer if need be. You can also try putting the mov in hitfilm express and rendering it as a transparent avi. just look up a tutorial on how to do it, it just a setting. Then when you put it in vegas you have to right click on the avi then go into properties/alpha channel then pick probably premultiplied, but if that doesn’t work try unmatted or premultiplied dirty.