[Aaron Star]

A news ticker is just a Sony Title & Text generated media with a “Scroll Left” Animation set. Set the duration field in where you type the text to like 5 mins. Then fill the top line of the text entry with your news stories, and layer the effect on a top track.

If you want a white backer, use another track with a generated solid white, and use the pan crop to move the white such that it is using the very bottom edge. adjust the opacity on the white to allow video to show through.

You can do more advanced backers with photo shop, and then layer the Photoshop file under the scrolling text. Names of people and stories should not be done in the Photoshop file. Use the Sony titles generator for those elements, that way you can change them easily for each new project.

[Aaron Star]

What Wyane says, or try out Catalyst Edit.

[Aaron Star]

Is there a support address I can email or something? I do not see anything in header or footer areas.

It seem I can edit a post if I click my profile and select a post from my list of posts, then I get an edit button top center.

[Aaron Star]

The dust effect you posted as a sample animates due to light effects in the 3D software that created the image. The dust in the door opening shot is creative, but not very realistic of lighting striking a lens.

The top sample image you posted is how the dust would look in that specific lighting condition.

[Aaron Star]

• In photoshop create a image that matches the resolution of your Vegas Project.
• Create a new layer, turn the eye ball off of the Background layer so you see only the alpha layer.
• Now randomly spot a dozen or so white spots around on picture area on layer 1.
• Bring the Photoshop image into Vegas on track 1. You should see your spotted white dots on screen.
• Now add the Defocus effect, and reduce the “radius” setting until you get the dust spot the size you want.
• Add a G.Blur next to feather the defocus edges.
• Vary the track or clip opacity to suit the final composite.

You can vary the point size in Photoshop when you are crating the white dots. This will give you some variance in dust size.

Add a lens flare plugin, if there a light source on screen backlighting the subjects, and key frame the movement to the light source.

To achieve the backlit dust, use a feathered “cookie cutter” or create a feathered matte that animates with how you want the reveal to look.

[Aaron Star]

• In photoshop create a image that matches the resolution of your Vegas Project.
• Create a new layer, turn the eye ball off of the Background layer so you see only the alpha layer.
• Now randomly spot a dozen or so white spots around on picture area on layer 1.
• Bring the Photoshop image into Vegas on track 1. You should see your spotted white dots on screen.
• Now add the Defocus effect, and reduce the “radius” setting until you get the dust spot the size you want.
• Add a G.Blur next to feather the defocus edges.
• Vary the track or clip opacity to suit the final composite.

You can very the point size in Photoshop when you are crating the white dots. This will give you some variance in dust size.

Add a lens flare plugin, if there a light source on screen backlighting the subjects, and key frame the movement to the light source.

[Aaron Star]

You could also use the “Match Media” button in the “Project settings,” and select you source media. Then your project will match you source media, and stills will no longer be pillar boxed.

[Aaron Star]

Forgot to add EIA-608 is the older NTSE standard, while 708 is the newer DTV standard. Vegas only supports 608. For 708 you will need another app that supports 708 embedding. Most TV stations will have a converter for the DTV side so they can supply both.

[Aaron Star]

CC works as the embed is in 608 with up to 4 channels, or the format of your choice. XAVC and HDCAM also support CC, its pretty much the MXF format that supports CC.

You may want to read the CC section in the help file for instruction.

If you have long gaps in your dialog, you may need to insert blank or sound/music descriptions. This will make the dialog CC appear to turn off at the end of a sentence.

To import the CC from a file that already has it embedded, you need to go to File> Import> Closed captioning.

[Aaron Star]

There have been other threads on the issues with .MTS, so search and see if any of those help.

I would try the following:

Make sure you have the latest/final build of Vegas 12 installed.

Fully patch your windows, so no patches are hanging waiting for reboot.

Make sure your audio and GPU drivers are fully updated.

Use GPU-Z to verify your GPU Bus Interface Speed is operating at 16X speed correct for the card.

Use something like Speccy to make sure that the GPU or CPU is not running to hot during playback/editing.

Looking into converting your source .MTS files into XDCAM, HDCAM-SR-LITE, Cineform.AVI, XAVC-i or use FFMPEG to convert only your audio to PCM. The MTS format is probably AVCHD with an AC-3 sound track(which is really just multi-track MP3.)

Just converting your sound might be enough, and the Pro formats like XDCAM,HDCAM,XAVC, and Cineform use PCM audio.

I generally create a Camera Master folder, and an XDCAM folder in the projects. Then use a new default project to convert the media to XDCAM using one of the batch scripts in Vegas. You can easily swap the media out from the master folder to the XDCAM folder when starting the project.