Can this "lower thirds" effect be done in Vegas?
Matt Tavani, who has a blog dedicated to the Canon TX1 ( http://powershot-tx1.blogspot.com ), shot a video entitled "New York City 720p video" and created a cool "lower thirds" effect using a "gaussian blur" band with clear text that tracked across the screen revealing the scene below as it moved. You can see the movie at either one of these two links:
http://s3.video.blip.tv/027000055478...hTheTX1819.mov http://blip.tv/file/284638 He states in the blog that he used iMovie to create the lower thirds. Does anyone know how I might go about creating the same effect using Vegas 8? Frank. |
You can do much more complex stuff than that in Vegas.
It looks like they used a combination of keyframing and a top layer with reduced opacity. You could do this a number of ways. I don't have the key strokes and menus. 3 Layers: Top Layer: horizonal scrolling text effect as a mask on Middle Layer: a solid layer with reduced Opacity Bottom layer: video I would probably create a single semi-opac layer in Photoshop with the text screened out and keyframe it over the video. |
Here's a tutorial that gets you part of the way there.
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Top layer-Text. Track composite mode is Mask
Second layer-video, second track is child to track one Third layer-same video as on track two, but this one has blur applied. Done. |
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