[Hector Vera]

Ohh I see so in other words, while you are rendering a video in Vegas Pro, it just does not show the preview so you can see the progress on how its rendering right? Yeah it could be as you say that hardware limitation from the computer you are currently using to render the video. Once you upgrade it, it should be working again.

If anything else is the issue, try checking this video out to see if it helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lrFF6aogeg Good luck and hope it works one way or another.

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[Hector Vera]

So the first word is unable to center itself you say? If thats the case, try this: in order to center a text layer and keep the first word in its initial position, you can use a trick with an invisible text layer. Here is how it would work:

1. Add a text layer to your comp and select it.
2. Go to the “Animations” tab and click on the stopwatch icon to enable keyframes for this text layer.
3. In the text layer properties, enable the “Character” option and set it to 2. (This will make the first word have a fixed width.)
4. Create an additional invisible text layer below the first text layer.
5. Select the first text layer and the additional invisible text layer.
6. Right-click and choose “Make Nulls from Layer”.
7. Create a 3D null object for the invisible text layer.
8. In the 3D null object’s properties, set the position and rotation values to 0.
9. Select both the 3D null object and the text layer and apply the “Align” effect.
10. In the Align effect’s properties, set the center of the text layer and the invisible text layer to the 3D null object.

With this setup, the 3D null object will stay in place while the first word will remain in its original position. And you are also to animate other properties on the text and invisible layer as needed to achieve the desired effect. Hope that this can solve the issue with the first word not being center as it should be. Good luck!

[Hector Vera]

Hello Ben! Hope you are doing fine. So one way that you can modify the expression to mark the words to be highlighted with “__” (two characters) instead of “=” (only one character) would be to use the following logic:

1. Replace all instances of “=” with “__” in the source text string.
2. Split the source text string into an array of individual words.
3. Loop through the array of words, and for each word, check if it is surrounded by two instances of “__”.
4. If a word is surrounded by two instances of “__”, toggle the “txt_highlight” variable to mark the word as highlighted.
5. Update the display of the Text layer based on the value of “txt_highlight”.

Here’s an example of how this expression would look like in code:

// Replace all instances of “=” with “__” in the source text string

const txt = thisComp.layer(“Master_Text”).text.sourceText.replace(/=/g, “__”);

// Split the source text string into an array of individual words

let words = txt.split(” “);

// Loop through the array of words, and for each word, check if it is surrounded by two instances of “__”.

for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {

if (words[i].includes(“__”)) {

// If a word is surrounded by two instances of “__”, toggle the “txt_highlight” variable to mark the word as highlighted

txt_highlight = !txt_highlight;

if (!txt_highlight) {

return 0;

}

}

else {

// If a word is not surrounded by “__”, update the Text layer based on the value of “txt_highlight”

if (txt_highlight) {

100;

}

else {

0;

}

}

}

With this expression, you should be replacing all the “=” in the source text string with “__” and highlight all the words that are surrounded by these characters.

[Hector Vera]

Yeah that is pretty strange since I also record screen footages using OBS, I even then convert my OBS MKV files to MP4 to be compatible with Vegas PRO. I pass the clips and I am using Vegas 20, I get the whole video clip there no problem. Not sure if you had to convert MKV video files to MP4 from OBS, probably your settings are different from mines if it gets you MP4 format straight from OBS but maybe try what I did and record videos as MKV files and then convert it to MP4 using YTD Video Downloader or other mp4 conversion websites and pass it to your Vegas Pro 21 to see if that helps. Best of luck! If not, perhaps a glitch is happening on your Vegas Pro, both computers, did you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software, then trying again if results change? Let me know.

[Hector Vera]

Hello Nils! Good news is that there is a way that you can access the quality settings of the comp using the After Effects script API. Here is the following codes you can use to execute to see if it helps:

// Get the current comp index

var comp = app.project.activeDependency;

// Get the current comp’s render settings

var settings = comp.renderSettings;

// Get the quality setting value

var quality = settings.quality;

console.log(“Quality: ” + quality);

This code will log the current quality setting of the comp to the console. You can modify the code in any ways to suit your needs, such as retrieving the settings for specific render engines or including a prompt to ask the user which quality setting they want to use. Hope that it helps and let me know if you have any questions! 🙂

[Hector Vera]

So it was in the same folder as last time when it was actually working, right? Did it gave you an opportunity to search for the missing file? Its quite odd indeed… any error messages it generated saying it was missing something or not working on certain parts of the project? Error messages can help identify the source of the problem. Hope to hear back from you soon.

[Hector Vera]

Hey Sergio! It sounds like you have a text layer with the full string “40% Off” and you want to split it into three separate layers with the words “40”, “%”, and “Off” in the same order and time as the guide layer. To do this, you can use the following expressions:

1. Select the guide text layer and apply the overshoot animation to it.
2. Select the “40%” layer, press the P key to select the layer’s position, and apply the following expression:

transform.center([-0.50*width, 0])

This will align the “40%” layer with the center of the comp in the horizontal direction. 3. Select the “%” layer, press the P key to select the layer’s position, and apply the following expression:

transform.center([-0.25*width, 0])

This will align the “%” layer with the center of the comp in the horizontal direction, but a bit further to the left compared to the “40%” layer. 4. Select the “Off” layer, press the P key to select the layer’s position, and apply the following expression:

transform.center([-0.75*width, 0])

This will align the “Off” layer with the center of the comp in the horizontal direction, but a bit further to the right compared to the “%” layer.

Note: Replace “width” in the expressions above with the actual width of the guide text layer.

By applying these expressions to the “40%”, “%”, and “Off” layers respectively, you should be able to center and animate each of them in the same order and time as the guide layer. Hopefully this would help at least give you a better idea on how to fix this issue. Good luck!

[Hector Vera]

Too bad I am unable to view the After Effects project since I do not have it currently installed. So some video clip showing the issue would have helped more.

But I did found some solutions that may be able to help you with your issue. Here is a solution for each problems:

1. To center the phrase automatically, you need to determine the horizontal spacing between each word. You can use the transform effect to move the entire phrase to the right by the total width of all the words divided by two, plus the width of the first word. That way, the phrase will be centered on the canvas. Then, you can split the text into separate layers and adjust the position of each layer accordingly.
2. To center the entire phrase at the end, you can use the expression <b style=”background-color: var(–bb-content-background-color); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>value + [margin] / 2on each word’s position property. For example, if you want a margin of <b style=”background-color: var(–bb-content-background-color); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>200, you would use <b style=”background-color: var(–bb-content-background-color); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>value + 100 on the position properties of the layers you want to center. This should result in the entire phrase being centered at the end.

[Hector Vera]

There is a way to can get 3D back on your project, you can convert 2D footage to 3D by using a 3rd party plugin called Video Co-Pilot’s Element 3D or Maxon’s Cinema 4D Lite. Both of these plugins are available to purchase, probably have a free trial and will allow you to add 3D elements such as text, icons and logos to your video, especially ones that had it before. You can also try the Vegas Pro 360 Panoramic to see if you are able to restore the 3D on your project too. Good luck!

[Hector Vera]

Yeah it seems via their main website at vegascreativesoftware, there is a 2 for 1 deal where you can get Vegas 21 for free if you pre-order VEGAS Pro 22 so you can get 21 right away. And here is the link if you want to know more about it: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/vegas-pro/

It says it will be released on Summer 2024 so I would assume it should be out anywhere between this month in July till as late as early September cause the Summer lasts until Sept 22nd, 2024. Hope it helps!

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