Hi all! We continue to study video editing for beginners, and today I will show you how to insert text in Sony Vegas Pro 13 over a video or picture. It's no secret that in quite many cases some kind of text insertion is simply necessary. Today we will look at 2 methods: internal and external.
How to insert text using built-in tools
Of course, such a powerful video editing program could not help but have its own text input function in its arsenal. Moreover, the program also has several such functions. Let's look at each one separately.
Simple inscription
If you need to add a regular caption to the video that does not move, then enter the program and select the “Media Generations” tab in the media window. You will see a new window displaying various linings, backgrounds, and texts. In this case, select “(Legacy) Text”, after which you will see many various types with different effects.
On each of the types it will be written how it differs from the others: “Bend”, “Clear contour”, etc. Press the left mouse button on any of these templates and drag it to the tracks area or add it as a fragment to any video track. Don't forget to look at the background. If you can see gray squares behind the letters, this means that the background is transparent, but it can be filled in. More on this later. Just first make sure that the picture is on top of the video or image on the track, otherwise the inscription simply will not appear. Make sure that the path with the inscription is higher.
After this, the fragment will be automatically inserted and the settings for this piece will open in a separate window. This is where we will have to do a little magic and work with the tabs to achieve the desired result.
When you have finished processing the inscription in Sony Vegas pro, simply close the window, and all settings will be saved in real time. But if suddenly you realize that you want to change something, then click on the special icon on the fragment in the form of a film strip, after which the settings window will open again.
If the duration of the text display is not enough for you, then simply drag the edge of the track fragment to any distance.
Animated text in sony vegas
But if you want to insert text into Sony Vegas so that it is dynamic and lively, then it is best to choose special animated templates, which are also built into the editor.
The settings here work on a slightly different principle than we did with you earlier.
You will observe all changes in real time right in the preview window. Only to do this you will need to place the cursor in the right place on the track so that you can see the text.
External use of text in Sony Vegas
Unfortunately, it is not always possible to insert beautiful text in Sony Vegas Pro 13 internal ways so that it suits you in all respects. In the end, you may have your own or a designer and branded solution, where standard products, to put it mildly, will not look good. But there is no trouble. We can prepare the text in advance in any text or photo editor, for example in Photoshop, and then save it in PNG format.
And then, insert the photoshopped inscription into the program and work directly with it. Naturally, it will not fit as you need, so you will have to adjust the inscription yourself. The familiar “Pan/Crop” function, which we used when... will help us with this.
If you want to study Photoshop in more detail to learn how to process photos, work with images and text, then be sure to watch these video tutorials. This is one of the best Photoshop courses I've seen.
Additional effects when working with text in Sony Vegas
You can also zoom in or out, move it to the right, left, up or down. You can even rotate it and create animated effects. To do this, you just need to set the starting point of the text position (anchor) in the “Pan/Crop” mode, and then move it to another place, remembering to place the cursor at the end point.
Now, you can close the cropping window and see what you got. It should appear that the text appears on the left side and within 5 seconds goes off the screen on the right side. The fewer seconds you allocate for this task, the faster the text will go away.
And if you want the inscription to smoothly appear and fade out, then you need to do the following: lightly pull the corners of the fragment with the inscription so that a white arc forms on it.
The arc at the beginning will be responsible for the appearance of the text, and the arc on the right will be responsible for its fading. Even though the effect is very simple, it always looks great.
And by the way, you can apply . To do this, select it in the Transitions tab, which is located in the media window, and simply drag it to the transition arc area.
Now see for yourself what you can do. Very simple and very cool.
Bottom line
Now, you've learned how to insert text in Sony Vegas Pro 13 in several ways, and you shouldn't have any problems bringing it to life. It doesn’t matter what you use the inscription for (for titles, copyright, title, tooltip, etc.), the main thing is that with text any video will look more advantageous.
But if you want to master video editing at a higher level and make incredibly amazing videos and clips, then I recommend that you study Premiere Pro course. The course is really just cool, and the training is structured in such a way that even someone who has never even worked in video editing can master it. Premiere Pro not only makes videos for blogs, but also edits real Hollywood blockbusters. So I highly recommend studying the program. It's just a bomb.
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In the next article, which is devoted to the basic principles of working in the program Sony Vegas, we'll look at the process of applying text over a video. This is done simply and quickly, so without unnecessary “chatter” we move on to implementing the task at hand.
To begin, place your video on the “timeline” and immediately create a new video track: right-click on the current track and select from the menu that appears "Insert video track"(Fig.1)
Fig.1
After creating the track (it appears above the video track), we need to add the text itself, which will be displayed on top of the selected video. To do this, go to “Data Generator” => “Text” => Soft Shadow(Fig. 2) and simply drag it onto the track we just created.
I mostly choose this kind of generated text (Soft Shadow), since it is already a little decorated with shadow (although this can easily be done using "Video Data Generator"), but you can choose any other. True, for the task at hand in this article, only the type of text without a background is suitable (on the previews, these types of generated text have a background in the form of a kind of chessboard).
When you have completed all the steps described above, a window should open."Video Data Generator", as well as when the time line is hovered over a segment with text that is placed on the track, text T should also appear in the preview windowvideo, same as in (Fig. 2)
Fig.2
Now let's immediately write the text we need. To do this, simply make the “Video Data Generator” active and enter your text there, I have this: "Text by site" (Fig.3)
Learn more about editing text in Sony Vegas, you can (highly recommend!)
Fig.3
To return to "Video Data Generator" after you have closed it, you need to click on the button on the thumbnail of the generated text, which is located on the “timeline” (Fig. 4)
Fig.4
I would like to remind you once again that in order for your text to be visible on top of the video, it must, accordingly, be located above the video track, as shown in the screenshot above.
So we got acquainted with the basic process of overlaying text over video in the Sony Vegas program. Also, in order to achieve the results you need, I strongly (once again) recommend that you read this article, the principle of editing generated text is described here in detail, all in the same Sony Vegas.
Good luck and success to you in creating your video projects :)
Provides us with enormous opportunities. Where to start?
We'll start with the Media Generators window. There are two groups of titles: scrollable (Credit Roll) and static text (Text). We will work with the second group. We go there and see several templates to choose from. You can select the appropriate one and simply drag it onto the Timeline to the location you need. Or you can finish reading the article and create your own template. Let's place the simplest template on the video track. This can be done by double-clicking on the first sample in the Media Generators window, or in the context menu of the video track, select Insert Text Media.
The Video Media Generators window appears. There we will adjust the text parameters.
On the first tab (Edit) we have the usual text editor, nothing complicated: enter the text itself, select the font style, size, alignment, and so on. Let's write something, choose a font. the Preview window immediately displays the result.
Let's immediately turn to the key points (where would we be without them!). We can, for example, make text appear by words. To do this, create a key point by moving the cursor to it and writing the word “work”. Next, create a second key point and write the letter “c” on the next line. Well, for the third point the word “text” remains.
Let's go to the second tab. Placement. Here we set the location of the text in the frame.
By holding down the left mouse button, you can simply position the text in the desired place in the frame. You can also set this location in the Text Placement drop-down list. Let's pay attention to the red rectangle displayed on the frame diagram. This rectangle shows the safe zone for saving text. There are times when the screen parameters do not match the parameters of your video and part of the frame is simply not displayed. Therefore, a safe zone is set.
Here we can also use key points and set the text to appear unusually. (remove the old settings and leave only the text) At the first key point, completely hide the text behind the left border of the frame. for the second, put the text in the middle and see the result. Our text “moves out” from the left border of the frame.
On the third tab, color parameters are set. We can also change the text properties here. Space between letters (Tracking), scale (Scaling) and distance between lines (Leading).
Let's remove the previous keyframe settings again and try to create something new. For example, for the first key point we will set the Scaling parameter to 0, and for the second point we will set the value to 1. Let's look at the result.
On the Effects tab, we can give the text some additional property, for example, a shadow (Shadow). To do this, check the shadow box and set the settings (tilt angle, blur, color). The same is with the outline (Outline) - check the box, set the settings (color, blur and thickness). And the last parameter is distortion. Check the box, select the type of deformation, and the value.
You can also use key points to animate in . And do something like this:
Let's look at another option for adding color to the text. To do this, let's reset the old settings again and create another video track.
Let's place some kind of gradient or texture on it, placing it under the text.
Well, friends, in this article we will talk about how to create video tracks in Sony Vegas and add the necessary text or titles to them.
I think that this article will be useful to all of you, because when creating your videos, you will come across the “Text” tool quite often.
Therefore, I propose now to look into this issue in detail.
How to add text in Sony Vegas
In order to add the necessary text inside Sony Vegas, you first need to create a separate video track for it. This is done as follows:
After the track is displayed on, we go to the tab "Data Generators" (« MediaGenerators") and select the item in it « Text"
Several so-called text blanks (presets) appear before our eyes, from which we will select the one most suitable for us and, grabbing it with the left mouse button, drag it onto the video track we recently created.
By the way, among these text templates there are templates with both a colored background and a transparent one, so you can choose the one that suits you.
Although, in general, any of them can be adjusted to suit you.
For clarity, let’s drag a blank with white text on a black background onto the video track. And immediately a window opens for us to edit the text:
And in this window we can:
- On the " Edit» change the text itself, specify the desired font, size and position of the text for it (I wrote the text “Hello, guys!” here and gave it the necessary settings).
- On the " Placement» You can specify where the text should be located, for example at the bottom or in the upper right corner.
- Well, in the tabs " Properties" And " Effects» You can “tweak” the settings you already need: change the color of the text and background or remove the background altogether, change the distance between letters, text scale, apply a shadow, stroke, etc.
After the manipulations have been performed, to apply the text settings, simply close this window, because everything you configure inside it is saved automatically.
If, after viewing the result, something suddenly doesn’t suit you, then making the necessary adjustments will not be difficult for you, just click on the frame image (green) located on the file with the text.
How to make titles in Sony Vegas
In order to create captions for your video, all in the same tab "Data Generators" (« MediaGenerators") select " CreditRoll»
Where again we see several options for presets. Moreover, by hovering the mouse over any of them, we can see what our titles will look like.
To the right of the text, you can also make the necessary adjustments: the distance between letters, text position, font, background color, etc.
When you finish making changes, just close this window and all settings will be automatically applied.
Watch the video on how to add text to video in Sony Vegas 13
I also recommend that you watch a video on how to make titles on a video in Vegas Pro 13:
Well, that’s all, my friends, this is the end of my article. Today we learned how to create text and titles in the Sony Vegas Pro program and I congratulate you on another small victory!
Ask questions in the comments below the article if anything is still unclear.
Practice, experiment, create!
Yours Victoria
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