Hi
I'm fairly new to this and gradually getting to grips with things, but I'm stuck. I would like to add an effect to a video segment to make it appear like a piece of old film. I have am mp4 of the effect I would like to use, so I guess my question is , is it possible to overlay this on top of the segment to get the desired effect (hope this is reasonably clear). If this would not work in this way, how can I do it? Thanks in advance.
Yes, you can put your effect MP4 on top of the video segment. Magix uses the bottom up approach: you look at your movie from bottom to top ie looking up.
So, in this case, on the timeline put your effect video below the video segment like this:
Of course, putting a video object on top of another will blank out the lower object. In this example, the effect object will blank out the video segment but I have lowered the video level of the effect file so we can see though it.
Your film-effect MP4 will need to be transparent to be able to see the video segment below.
There are purpose-designed film-effects filters about so if you don't get the desired effect from your effect, look foe those.