Re: Vegas review in DV mag

The "color blocks" for a lower third are pretty easy to create in Vegas 5.

You create a new track of video and then right click and select "Insert generated Media." You can choose a solid color or a noise texture you want an animated background.

Then you can use the Pan/Crop on the media and the Track Motion on the track itself to place the background on just the lower third of the screen.

If you want the lower third to be a specific shape, you can use the bezier mask tools to create the shape.