Remove Text in Vegas 10
by Brad White on Sep 19, 2012 at 4:27:01 am
My last video shoot resulted in the "time/date" stamp on my NX70 being embedded in the video. I know where the control is in the cam to turn the feature off for next time; not sure how it got turned on this time.
To salvage the footage I would like to somehow "mask" over the time code. I tried a text type overlay with poor results. What I would like is some form of horizontal bar that I can control the width, color and placement of to place over the text. Not an elegant solution, but may be acceptable.
Suggestions?
Brad
Re: Remove Text in Vegas 10 by john bolton on Sep 19, 2012 at 7:36:57 am
Hi Brad. The easiest way is to add another track above your current time line and then select a coloured block from the Media Generator tab. Drag that to the new time line you just added and stretch it the complete length of the original media . Then Click on the track motion button on the new time line and Un-tick the two boxes at the top of the opened Track Motion box that control Lock Aspect Ratio and Scale about centre. You can then make the Colour media you selected any shape you want and any position you want by dragging the corners of the outlined box on the screen to the size and shape you want and then select the shaped box ( the outline will turn blue ) and the move it to cover the Date and Time problem.. and of course you can change block to any colour. Hope this helps .. John
Re: Remove Text in Vegas 10 by Roger Bansemer on Sep 19, 2012 at 10:51:16 am
Depending how close your timestamp is to the bottom I suppose you could also crop the entire image somewhat with the "event pan crop". Or another way would be to make a widescreen look out of it after you do a little pan-crop and out a black bar at the top and bottom to give it a panorama look.
Re: Remove Text in Vegas 10 by Brad White on Sep 19, 2012 at 10:25:25 pm
Hi Roger,
Cropping seems to work the best as the time stamp is fairly near the bottom of the frame. Since I shot this in HD, I really didn't lose any quality due to the zoom/crop in the frame.
Re: Remove Text in Vegas 10 by Brad White on Sep 19, 2012 at 10:21:14 pm
Hi John,
The technique you suggested works well. However, the "color bar/mask" ends up being too distracting, even with a muted color. This will however, be usefull in another video I have.
Re: Remove Text in Vegas 10 by Mike Kujbida on Sep 20, 2012 at 2:39:01 am
I hope I'm not too late as I thought of another method that hopefully won't be too distracting.
Duplicate the video track.
Apply a Medium Blur Gaussian FX to the upper track.
You can change this later if yo0u want more or less blur.
Open Pan/Crop on this track and click on "Mask" at the bottom left of the timeline to activate it.
Use the mask tool to draw a box around the text.
Adjust feathering amount if desired.
That's all there is to it.
Re: Remove Text in Vegas 10 by William McCallum on Sep 22, 2012 at 6:11:55 pm
Mike...I've got Vegas 9 and have text i want out and text i want to add...I got to the 'mask tool' step..how do you get the tool to work?
Thanks, BfloBill
Re: Remove Text in Vegas 10 by Mike Kujbida on Sep 22, 2012 at 10:47:37 pm
Bill, I put a quick veg file (done in Pro 8) together to show you what I mean to and let you dissect it at your leisure.
The veg file and image are at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20488019/LogoBlur.zip
I blurred both the book title and logo to show you that you can do more than one mask at a time on the same image.
Let me know if you still have questions after looking at it.
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