Hello! I'm getting used to Vegas 7, and I know some stuff, but one problem keeps bugging me. Whenever I put a subtitle to a video clip in Vegas it goes transparent when I set the color of the letters to black. The darker I go, the more transparent the letters get. Red is mildly transparent, along with blue and green, but black is 100% transparent. It's quite irritating. If anyone knows how to fix this problem, it will be very helpful to me and I would greatly appreciate it!

Also the same case goes with the noise textures. (i.e. puffy clouds, soft clouds, lava, plasma, etc.) The darker, the more transparent. I could really use some help!

~Thanks!

Check the compositing mode for the track with the text/gen med is set to "Source Alpha" (this is one of the small green icons in the track header - left hand end of the track on the timeline)

EDIT: And check the composition level (the slider thing) is set to 100%

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Tim

The track with the subtitle is set to "Source Alpha" and the slider next to it is set all the way to 100%.

The track with the video is set to "Add" and the slider is at 100% as well.

Still the black subtitles are transparent..

Oh, and I used "Default Text" as my subtitles.

Hmmmm.....
any chance of some screen shots (each page of the gen med & one showing the track headers)?

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Tim

Huh? I don't know?..

Compositing mode - 'mask'.

Everything 100% white should be transparent, 100% black will be opaque, other colours translucent.

If all you want is opaque black text that should do it.

If you want other colours to be transparent / opaque - use the chroma key tool to make the back ground colour only transparent.

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I don't want any of the text's colors to be transparent. I want black subtitles but it won't work!

Really could do with some screen shots. Something is not set right and you're not telling us.........
What happens if you start a new project from scratch.
Just stick some video on track 2 and do a simple text overlay on track 1.

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