I have sony Vegas pro 10..how do I make text move forwards.
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KdawgCreations
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Set the video track to 3d source alpha (Green quare) then go to track motion, (blue square coming out the white square with an arrow) , track motion the text (using 2 points) Beginning being really close and big using the Z axis then normal sized at the 2nd point (the end) after that just adjust the distance of the points to adjust the speed
HoraryHellfire
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The above poster has stated a way to do it, but I believe the way I do it is simpler. Once you have the text you want to use on your video track, the next step is to go to pan and cropping on your text. To do this, the text segment on the timeline itself has 2 or 3 buttons on the furthest right hand side of the text timeline segment. Hover your mouse over the buttons until you see Event Pan/Cropping. Click it and a window will pop up. In the window you see a timeline, a window inside the window, numbers on the left hand side, and more buttons to the left of the numbers. Now what you want to do is on the left hand side, find the button that says Maintain Aspect Ratio and click it. This will make sure the aspect ratio stays the same as you change the panning/cropping. The window with the text/video in it and a bunch of boxes is the thing you want to pay attention to. There will be dashed lines in the form of a rectangle in this window and boxes on the four corners. To make the image smaller, drag one of the corners to make the box bigger. To zoom in, just drag one of the corners inward to make the box smaller. If you want the text to come toward you, make the box bigger to make the image smaller. Now is slightly more complicated. You will now need to add keyframes. These are "save" points of the positions at which you pan/crop (and other things that use keyframes). Say you make the text smaller, add a keyframe, 3 seconds later in the timeline you add another keyframe, but make the text bigger, it will essentially move fluidly bigger. The closer the keyframes are together, the faster the movement. In the pan/crop timeline, the top line is panning, and the bottom line is masking. You want the top line. Make sure your text is small/zoomed out in the window. Now move forward a few frames by clicking the next frame arrow on the MAIN timeline of Sony Vegas a few times. Click the Create Keyframe button below the window timeline. Now zoom in the box to however you want. Technically you could be done here, but you also said fade out. You can exit out the pan/crop window and add a fade at the end of the text segment on the main timeline. To do this, just put your mouse on the top right hand side of the Text Segment on the main timeline (above the 2/3 buttons). There should be a new icon replacing your mouse cursor. It should be a line with two arrows on both sides of the line and underneath it is a shape that looks like half of a protractor (the tool that measures angles in Mathematics). It sort of looks similar to a Triangle. Now once your cursor is that symbol, just click and drag the mouse to the left for however long you want to start fading. Be it two seconds, one half second, a quarter second, five seconds; it doesn't matter, as long as you want it to be. Now you are done. Another addition thing is the Fade symbol (arrow on both ends of a line and a sort of triangle), if you right click while that symbol is there, a popup is now shown. This popup is a bunch of the different types of fades. These fades might seem to look the same in action, but the right one is always a plus.
Hope this helped!
The above poster has stated a way to do it, but I believe the way I do it is simpler. Once you have the text you want to use on your video track, the next step is to go to pan and cropping on your text. To do this, the text segment on the timeline itself has 2 or 3 buttons on the furthest right hand side of the text timeline segment. Hover your mouse over the buttons until you see Event Pan/Cropping. Click it and a window will pop up. In the window you see a timeline, a window inside the window, numbers on the left hand side, and more buttons to the left of the numbers. Now what you want to do is on the left hand side, find the button that says Maintain Aspect Ratio and click it. This will make sure the aspect ratio stays the same as you change the panning/cropping. The window with the text/video in it and a bunch of boxes is the thing you want to pay attention to. There will be dashed lines in the form of a rectangle in this window and boxes on the four corners. To make the image smaller, drag one of the corners to make the box bigger. To zoom in, just drag one of the corners inward to make the box smaller. If you want the text to come toward you, make the box bigger to make the image smaller. Now is slightly more complicated. You will now need to add keyframes. These are "save" points of the positions at which you pan/crop (and other things that use keyframes). Say you make the text smaller, add a keyframe, 3 seconds later in the timeline you add another keyframe, but make the text bigger, it will essentially move fluidly bigger. The closer the keyframes are together, the faster the movement. In the pan/crop timeline, the top line is panning, and the bottom line is masking. You want the top line. Make sure your text is small/zoomed out in the window. Now move forward a few frames by clicking the next frame arrow on the MAIN timeline of Sony Vegas a few times. Click the Create Keyframe button below the window timeline. Now zoom in the box to however you want. Technically you could be done here, but you also said fade out. You can exit out the pan/crop window and add a fade at the end of the text segment on the main timeline. To do this, just put your mouse on the top right hand side of the Text Segment on the main timeline (above the 2/3 buttons). There should be a new icon replacing your mouse cursor. It should be a line with two arrows on both sides of the line and underneath it is a shape that looks like half of a protractor (the tool that measures angles in Mathematics). It sort of looks similar to a Triangle. Now once your cursor is that symbol, just click and drag the mouse to the left for however long you want to start fading. Be it two seconds, one half second, a quarter second, five seconds; it doesn't matter, as long as you want it to be. Now you are done. Another addition thing is the Fade symbol (arrow on both ends of a line and a sort of triangle), if you right click while that symbol is there, a popup is now shown. This popup is a bunch of the different types of fades. These fades might seem to look the same in action, but the right one is always a plus.
Hope this helped!
