Movie trailers titles

mitteg wrote on 8/31/2002, 2:33 PM
Hello,

I'm trying to do a simple thing but I cannot figure out how to do it in a proper way.

I would like to superimpose a title in a video. I want the title to be very big and then become smaller. Like those titles we

can see in movie trailers. "The title just hitting the screen". So I do the following:

I add a new video track and I insert a default text. As far as I know there are 3 ways to do what I want:

1.- PAN & CROP

I resize the text so that it is extremely big (first keyframe) and then a resize it so that it is normal (last keyframe).

Vegas video interpolates all the frames and I get what I want. Firstly a huge text and secondly it becomes smaller quickly

like if was hitting the screen.

PROBLEM: When I resize the text so than it is bigger it losses quality. (text is vectorial, isn't it?). So it looks

horrible. it is too pixelated.

2.- TRACK MOTION

Almost the same procedure but the problem is the same. When we zoom in the letters become pixelated.

3.- GENERATED MEDIA
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I hit generated media and I set the font to 504 (huge font) (first keyframe), and then I set the font to 30 for example,

which is the normal size of the final text.

PROBLEMS:

** Vegas Video does not interpolate the rest of the frames so I get very big letters and then suddenly normal

letters. I do not want this !

** I cannot enable the "sync button". Is there a way to enable this button in the generated media window ?

** When dealing with huge fonts it takes ages to view the effect in the preview window, like if it needs a lot of

processing. And it takes ages to render too. Why ? There is only a title not a sophisticated effect ? I'm with AMD Athlon XP

1800+, 512 Mb DDR RAM

Any help, tips.. will be highly appreciated.

Thank you.

Robert.

Also, I would like to know where I can find sound effects in order to sync them with the moving titles. I looked www.findsounds.com without any success. Do you know where I can find this special sounds.

Thanks again.

Comments

Tyler.Durden wrote on 8/31/2002, 3:09 PM
Hi Robert,

You might try making the titles as large still images in a graphics program like photoshop, then use track-motion to zoom the titles.

As for sounds, what are you looking for... Swooshes, whips, booms?

HTH, MPH
briand wrote on 8/31/2002, 5:19 PM
Sounds like he's looking for a short swoosh, and then a whump. Think "Stamping the screen with your title", ala librarian stamping books.

Unfortunately the text media generator doesn't keyframe interpret on the font size parameter. How about starting with that 500 point font, and scaling down using pan and crop, instead of up from 20 point?
mfranco wrote on 9/1/2002, 4:59 AM
Hi, You can get the effect you want by keyframing the tracking and scaling sliders on the text properties page along with the deformation effect on the effects page. I do it all the time and I'm always happy with the results.

1. Set the text size to the largest size you want. Keyframe it.
2. Add a keyframe for the end of your effect.
3. Use the scaling slider on the properties page along with the deformation effect(effects tab) set to Compress Horizontally (or vertically depending on font) to size the text to fit the screen.
3. Then use the tracking slider on properties tab to adjust the spacing between the letters if needed.
4. There is no step 4.
5. To minimize the jagged edges of the type, use the draw outline or shadow effects to soften the type.

Use the pan/crop or track motion filters for additional movement.

I do titles for a lot of independent projects and vegas is a great tool for text effects.

Hope this helps, franco
mitteg wrote on 9/1/2002, 5:17 AM
SCALING SLIDER

If I animate the text using scaling slider the text trembles. Imagine this:

text size: 72
First keyframe: scaling slider->0,367
last keyframe: scaling slider->3
Note that the first and the last keyframes are far away, so the text becomes bigger very slowly. All the individual letters of the text trembles, jitters, why? I doesn't matter if I enable "resampling" or "reduce interlace flicker".

If I do the same with pan&crop or track motion I get smooth letters even though the text becomes bigger slowly.
mfranco wrote on 9/1/2002, 7:16 AM
I'm getting the same thing! The letters are all jittery. It used to work perfectly on my computer.

What comes to mind is that I recently did a clean install of windows 2k and updated to sp3. I also used to have Adobe Type Manager and some other font type programs. I wonder if ATM had some affect? Also, looking into the fonts folder right now, I notice that all the fonts are opentype fonts, not truetype. On the projects I've done I was using truetype fonts that I installed myself. I'll reload the fonts and see what turns up. Damn. I hate when this happens.

We can still vary the text size using the deform, leading and tracking sliders, and there's a lot you can do with them and crop/pan.

-Franco

jetdv wrote on 9/2/2002, 8:59 AM
Option #1 is the correct option. However, Make the text the LARGEST size and DO NOT use Pan/Crop to make it larger. Only use Pan/Crop to make it smaller.
SonyEPM wrote on 9/3/2002, 8:35 AM
General note: For best/smoothest results, don't keyframe text scaling- use track motion or pan/crop for keyframing text size changes. Keyframing text tracking or any other parameter should be nice an smooth.