How to make present a map and the name of the village (town) in Sony Vegas Pro

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How to make present a map and the name of the village (town) in Sony Vegas Pro
by Eric Hebert on Apr 23, 2012 at 4:59:01 pm

Hi,
Next summer we will visit few villages in Italy...
What I am trying to do is to make a film to all the villages (towns) we will visit. For an example : Rome, an arrow will point the exact area on a map and Rome will appear in letters. Is it possible to do something like that with Sony Vegas Pro ? Thanks !!!

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Re: How to make present a map and the name of the village (town) in Sony Vegas Pro
by John Rofrano on Apr 23, 2012 at 6:25:02 pm

Really easy to do. You can use generated media to make the arrow or just use a PNG file and then use Text to label that area of the map. Place the text and arrow on a track above the map. You can even use key frames to animate them if you'd like.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

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Re: How to make present a map and the name of the village (town) in Sony Vegas Pro
by Paul Belter on Apr 24, 2012 at 8:17:47 am

Hi there,

is it possible? You gotta be kiddin' me, man...
and it was a "no sweat" job.

regards
paul

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Re: How to make present a map and the name of the village (town) in Sony Vegas Pro
by Eric Hebert on Apr 24, 2012 at 11:50:34 am

Thanks, but I'm a beginner...

1-How can I make an arrow with "generated media" like John said ?
The reason is when i'm trying to use a PNG file, I found on the internet, they always have a white background. What I need is a clear background to use on a map.

2-Do you know where I can find a map of Italy and when I present Rome for example, zoom in on the city ?

Thank you so much for your help !

Eric
(As you can read, you probably know that english is not my langage :) )

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Re: How to make present a map and the name of the village (town) in Sony Vegas Pro
by Stephen Crye on Apr 30, 2012 at 10:37:02 pm

Do you have Adobe Photoshop?

It seems like you need access to a photo editing program that can find edges, then copy a region to a new image, which you will save as a .png. Then the map will not have the white background, but instead a transparent background. Doing this is a very common practice in photo editing.

If you don't have Photoshop, try Gimp, lots of people use it as an open source alternative to Photoshop.

http://voices.yahoo.com/how-image-background-transparent-photoshop-3642809....

http://voices.yahoo.com/removing-background-photos-gimp-2877803.html?cat=15

Good luck!

steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

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Re: How to make present a map and the name of the village (town) in Sony Vegas Pro
by John Rofrano on May 7, 2012 at 12:10:22 pm

[Eric Hebert] "1-How can I make an arrow with "generated media" like John said ? "

Let's say you want a red arrow... drop a piece of Generated Media Solid Color on the timeline, make it red, open up Pan/Crop, select the MASK tool and draw an arrow (or any other shape for that matter).

[Eric Hebert] "2-Do you know where I can find a map of Italy and when I present Rome for example, zoom in on the city ?"

Try Google maps. Take screen shots at different zoom levels and use Pan/Crop in Vegas to zoom into them.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

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Re: How to make present a map and the name of the village (town) in Sony Vegas Pro
by Stephen Crye on May 8, 2012 at 10:33:33 pm

Hi;

These might give you some ideas regarding Google Maps/ Google Earth.

A fly-in (most of the video is probably boring but watch the first part for the fly-in)

A moving-map car to accompany a time-lapse drive (map starts at about 0:37 , but the first part is not horrible, so just watch)

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

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