put titles over movies

vicmilt wrote on 11/3/2010, 3:50 AM
Is there any way to put a super over a bunch of videos - or to make the videos smaller so I can have a title over them?

Here's the story - I've got a typical random access reel all made with Architect.
There are 30 videos in all.

Now I want to convert it to a continuous reel of all the movies and have my name showing at all times.
I've got the continuous movie part, by setting end actions to play the next video.

Is there any way I can have my name showing on the screen at all times?

Comments

PeterWright wrote on 11/3/2010, 5:50 AM
Hi Vic,

There may be an easier way, but you could simply add a single subtitle to each clip, from beginning to end, then make the subtitles ON by default in DVDA.

If that doesn't make sense, please ask for more information!

Peter
dan-hedrick wrote on 11/3/2010, 6:51 AM
Maybe I'm making this too simple..(or just don't understand your question).
But....I would just place an "TEXT" screen in a track above the video for the entire duration of all the videos. (The background of the text screen is transparant and would just show on top of the videos)...and the text can be positioned anywhere on the screen....or even change locations on the screen for each video, if desired.

But...this should be done in Vegas Movie Studio....rather than in Architect.

lcdrdan
PeterWright wrote on 11/3/2010, 7:41 AM
I'm sure Vic knows how to superimpose in Vegas.

He has 30 clips already rendered to DVD, and that's why I suggested a way to do it in Architect.
bStro wrote on 11/3/2010, 9:50 AM
If your movies are named with their titles...

1. Insert a Music / Video Compilation and double-click it to activate its timeline
2. Go to Options and check Auto-Insert Track Title
3. Add your individual video files to the compilation

DVDA will display the filename (minus the extension) over each movie. As an added bonus, because they're in a compilation, each video will be a chapter within a larger media item. Your current method using end actions won't do that.

Note that this method will "burn" the titles into the video, which will require DVDA to encode the video. So you should probably only use this if the files are not already DVD compliant. If they are DVD compliant, go with subtitles as previously mentioned. But I'd still recommend putting them in a compilation -- just add a subtitle track and manually type in the titles rather than turning on the Auto-Insert Track Title option.

Rob
dan-hedrick wrote on 11/3/2010, 10:12 AM
Sorry...PeterWright. didn't mean to step on your toes ...Just offering another solution. As I said...maybe I'm making this too simple. I find it easier to do all my editing, inserting text, etc in VMS and use DVDA to do the "authoring" and adding buttons, etc.
To each his own, I guess!

lcdrdan
PeterWright wrote on 11/3/2010, 6:16 PM
No problem lcdrdan,

Your suggestion is the usual way of doing this. You may not know, but Vic is an award winning movie maker using Vegas, so I'm sure he would normally also work this way, but I assumed from his question here in the DVDA Forum that he had already completed rendering many clips before the need to add his name arose, hence the need to try and do this in DVDA.