Answers.Body: <p>What you are looking for is <strong>luma keying</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>With luma keying, you provide a greyscale image to represent degrees of transparency (properly called an alpha channel) in addition to your background and foreground images. I have not used it in Vegas Pro, but here is a link to a tutorial:  <div class="youtube-embed"><div>
                  <iframe width="640px" height="395px" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/68MjjY6XQzk?start=0"></iframe>
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Body: <p>In Sony Vegas Pro 13, I've masked the part where I want the text's black background to appear. It looks like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/gW5gD.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/gW5gD.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Now, I want to fade one part of the background like in below picture, where right side of the text background is faded.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/JZfVZ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/JZfVZ.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>How do I do it?</p>
  
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Title: Fade text background on one end in Sony Vegas Pro 13
UserDisplayName: user5155835
ThreadText: # Fade text background on one end in Sony Vegas Pro 13
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-10-21)
  
  In Sony Vegas Pro 13, I've masked the part where I want the text's black background to appear. It looks like this:
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/gW5gD.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/gW5gD.png)
  
  Now, I want to fade one part of the background like in below picture, where right side of the text background is faded.
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/JZfVZ.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/JZfVZ.png)
  
  How do I do it?
  
  **Tags:** video, youtube, effects, vegas-pro
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-10-23. Score: 0
  
  What you are looking for is **luma keying**.
  
  With luma keying, you provide a greyscale image to represent degrees of transparency (properly called an alpha channel) in addition to your background and foreground images. I have not used it in Vegas Pro, but here is a link to a tutorial:
  
  
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