This is one of the features we have asked for in Vegas. Click the Add Category button under the blank drop down list and give the category a name like “Windows” and press OK and it will load all your windows fonts and show you samples. Tip: If the font tab is empty, you need to manually add your Windows fonts. The dialogs all have dropdown boxes that give you access to more sets of styles, fonts, colors, and gradients. Check out the metal ones they’re really great. In the upper left corner of the Text tab is a dropdown list with tons of other text styles. This is where you can very easily change text style, fonts, color, and gradient. This time we’re going to press the Style Palette button at the bottom of that dialog (under the red arrow in the picture on the left). If you still have Graffiti open, just double click on the header of the track with the title text “Boris Rocks!” and the text input dialog will open up again. In the last tutorial we didn’t really make anything compelling so now we’re going to explore the title dialog that we dismissed so quickly.

This should make the black background transparent.Ĭongratulations! You have just created a basic title in Graffiti and brought it into Vegas. When you bring it into Vegas, you might have to right click on it and select the Properties… dialog and on the Media tab set Alpha channel: to Straight (unmatted). That’s it! You’re now read to bring the TGA file into Vegas. Select File->Export…->Targa file and type in a filename for the title file which will be saved in.Otherwise the background will be output as well. Before you output to Vegas to use as an overlay, you want to hide the background track by clicking the eye icon in the header of the background track on the timeline.You should now see your text in the preview window. Press the Update button in the lower right of this dialog to update the preview window and close the text window by clicking the red X in the upper right like all windows applications.Type in “Boris Rocks!” (trust me it does) Right in the middle of the screen covering the first three windows is the text input dialog. In the upper left are the properties dialogs and on the upper right is the preview window. The lower half of the screen is the timeline. This will show you the general workflow and satisfy you that it actually works with Vegas. I think its best to get a round trip from Graffiti to Vegas as a good first step. I will try and update these to make them more extensive as I get time. (which is, after all, where you wanted it in the first place) 😉

They are just to get you familiar with the basics of getting into and out of Graffiti and get your title back into Vegas. Here are just a few tutorials to get you started with Boris Graffiti LTD.

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