vegas 7 / inserting arrow pointer in highlight film
by eric pruitt
on
Mar 16, 2008 at 4:44:33 am
I doing some highlight films for some of the kids on my son's football team who can afford $200 + for a short film for college recruiters. Can anyone assist me on how to insert an arrow like in the example below. How do I create the arrow /pointer and how do I insert it in the video...Mask or overlay. I do this for free for the kids and would appreciate any assistance.
Eric
Re: vegas 7 / inserting arrow pointer in highlight film by Mike Kujbida on Mar 16, 2008 at 10:56:46 am
The Wingdings font set has an arrow in it that you could use for this purpose.
You could also make your own arrow using any paint program.
Make the background transparent and save it in PNG format to preserve the transparency.
Add the arrow to a new track above your video track in Vegas.
Open the Pan/Crop window for the arrow to size and position accordingly.
Re: vegas 7 / inserting arrow pointer in highlight film by Douglas Spotted Eagle on Mar 16, 2008 at 3:28:09 pm
If you have either version of DVD Architect installed, you have lots of arrows that are already png files as well. Transparency is there, so just use Pan/crop to size and rotate.
I prefer masks to arrows, myself.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Re: vegas 7 / inserting arrow pointer in highlight film by eric pruitt on Mar 17, 2008 at 1:51:39 pm
Actually, I could use some help on how to do this in DVD architect. I did in Vegas by using a wingding font and colored it but it was very labor intensive moving the pointer to the correct location, it makes no sense when moving a font because the pointer is backwards and to get to the correct location on the film it has no correlation to the final location of the pointer over the film...if that makes sense. Would it be easier in DVD architect ?
Re: vegas 7 / inserting arrow pointer in highlight film by Mike Kujbida on Mar 17, 2008 at 3:33:50 pm
"Actually, I could use some help on how to do this in DVD architect."
I think Douglas was referring to using the arrows found in DVD Architect, not actually doing it there.
...it was very labor intensive moving the pointer...
Yes, It is a time-consuming process to do this AND have it look good. You need to decide where to draw the line time-wise (so to speak).
This is where the use of keyframes comes in very handy.
...the pointer is backwards...
Use the tools in the Pan/Crop window to rotate it any way you want.
