Click on the event’s Pan/Crop button, and move the selection field up vertically until there’s a band of the desired height across the bottom of the Video Preview window. Under Media Generators, choose Sony Solid Color then choose the desired color close the window. In a video track, go Insert > Generated Media. Next, click on the right-most keyframe and choose the ending color.įinally, let’s create a colored band to go underneath the crawl. Select the left keyframe and choose the desired starting color. Click on the Generated Media button in the text event, then click on the Properties tab. Starting the crawl with one color that morphs into another can add a dramatic effect, or accommodate a background change. Finally, fade the opacity envelope in and out if you want the crawl to fade rather than just appear. Drag the right keyframe all the way to the right for the longer crawl time. 4 Vegas Pro Countdown Clock tutorial by AlesTemple 5 VEGAS Pro - 3D Reflection Tutorial (Easy) by AlesTemple 6 Sony Vegas Tutorials - Film Looks. Roll out the event so that it covers the specified length, then click on the event’s Generated Media button in the upper right. Click on the Media tab and enter the desired crawl time under Length, then click on OK. If the crawl is too fast, right-click on the timeline’s text event and choose Properties. The Y value should equal Y in the first keyframe so the text crawls in a straight line. Select this new keyframe, then click-drag the text to the left so that the last letter appears just off-screen to the left (e.g., an X value more negative than 2.000). We need to create a second keyframe, so ctrl-click the keyframe on the left and drag all the way to the right. An X value greater than 2.000 should work set Y around 0.600-0.800, depending on the text size and how low you want the crawl.
Next, click on the Placement tab and click-drag the text to the right (use Free Form text placement mode) so that the line’s first letter is just outside the text preview pane’s right side. To start, go Insert > Text Media on a video track, then click on the text window’s Edit tab. The Event Pan/Crop window shows how the selection field has been moved up to narrow the band. The Video Preview shows the text crawling across a band placed at the bottom of the video. The Video Event FX window shows that the text starts at X = 2.500 and Y = 0.793.
So, let’s cover how to create a text crawl along the bottom of the screen, like what you see on news stations for breaking news and stock market tickers.Ĭlockwise from upper left: The text, solid color band, and video tracks arranged in the timeline.
Text can add creative flourishes to projects, and the text generator in Vegas™ Pro software has lots of useful features.