• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @terrypin Hi Terry You have got it - there are 2 minor adjustments needed : There are some small specks of stray Alpha to the right of the Y -see image below - - there may be holes in the text mask. and one that caught me out initially - during the
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @browj2 Hi John Nice work especially the use of AVI with Alpha channel. @CubeAce AVI with transparency is a standard RGB AVI with an Alpha channel - commonly known as RGBA - as John CB has said this is the video equvalent of a PNG image. The only
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  Here is how I did it. In BluffTitler (BT), set up the Bluff text with mask effect and picture as texture In BT, added 2020 text, keyframed movements Exported just the BT text with mask effect and picture texture as transparent avi Removed the mask
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 5/23/2020

  RE: Transparent
  The simple things title was one of the ones that I was interested in. However, if MEP can't export with an Alpha CHannel (I had no idea that made a transparent) than does Magix make a program that does? I would like to stick with Magix because I
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 5/23/2020

  RE: Transparent
  @James-Baldini, @CubeAce . . . . OBS Studio forum site it says to use transparent png files but no info on how to apply . . . . How to do this is here. - the question is how to make it work in OBS with a video file - if that is what is
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 5/23/2020

  RE: Transparent
  @James-Baldini Hi . . . . OBS and OBStreamlabs . . . OBS, and I presume OBS Streamlabs - it appears to be identical to OBS - has a Filter function for adding Alpha to an image. However I assume that you want an animated Title eg it rotates or the
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @CubeAce @browj2 @johnebaker @terrypin Hi Terry. I think you have your alpha mask working back to front. Try swapping the two slider positions around so that Threshold Video 1 is off and 2 is on, assuming your main text is black on a white
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @terrypin Hi Terry. I think you have your alpha mask working back to front. Try swapping the two slider positions around so that Threshold Video 1 is off and 2 is on, assuming your main text is black on a white background. I did my text in MEP as
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @CubeAce @johnebaker Yes, that clearer association with the tank seems better IMO. Impatience got the better of me. But I'm not satisfied with this first attempt, which is not crisp enough. Maybe I need a narrow border around the main text. BTW, I
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @johnebaker Hi John. Got it! Tanks Text is Black text white b/g. 2021 is red text with black background. I did say above I made a mistake and I did apply an an alpha mask. I posted a further image with it showing in my last comment. I have a down
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @CubeAce Hi Ray . . . . not using an alpha mask. . . . . The titling is looking much clearer - if you did not use and black/white mask image for 'TANKS' and apply Chromakey Alpha to it, what did you use? . . . . I am looking for signs of that up
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @johnebaker Hi John. My new version only needing only the one edit but not using an alpha mask. I am looking for signs of that up arrow and changing to an alpha mask. Ray.   [Edit] Apparently I was wrong. I am using an alpha mask but still not
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @johnebaker Hi John. Well, this is odd. I have the same track number count and effects Mask type (Except for the font bevelling) and it works, but I still can't use the alpha channel. Perhaps because my date lettering is red instead of white? The
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @johnebaker Hi John. Blast my colour vision, I can hardly make out the text on the objects. I get tracks 1,3, and 4. What are tracks two and five? I did try the alpha mask but clearly not like this setup. I could not get alpha to work cleanly. So
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  Hi Ray This is the timeline Annotated: As you can see it appears to be upside down in that the background is on the highest track number - it does not work the other way round in what would be classed as normal ie background on track 1. All the
• Movie Studio

  66 answers, most recent on 7/2/2020

  RE: How can i make Movie edit pro plus work faster?
  Hi, the png text with transparent background was a bad example, if i use a jpg pic, i can't drag it far enough without the edge showing, the resolution is 1080 x 1920 wide, if i drag the picture to to the right, off screen, 1921 from the left it
• Movie Studio

  66 answers, most recent on 7/2/2020

  RE: How can i make Movie edit pro plus work faster?
  Hi Ray, No prob n Thanks yes i have it as you mention, NVIDIA is in Studio driver & graphics settings is set to classic app in Power Saving Mode 👍 It doesn't matter how far i zoom out of the preview frame, it's when the image leaves the edge,
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 5/15/2020

  RE: A 'How To' request
  @terrypin Hi Terry. Ideally I don't want any curves evident in the font. Crate would have been my other choice but that is even worse for the 'jaggies'. Haven't seen BN Machine. as far as I know. Definitely not Oswald Heavy. When you say 'white
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 5/15/2020

  RE: A 'How To' request
  @CubeAce Hi Ray, Your method sounds complex! Sandwiched inside a couple of hastily chosen video clips I placed a white title, dragged its size to fill most of the screen and set its Chroma key to Alpha. Stronger colour contrast would look better.
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 5/15/2020

  RE: A 'How To' request
  @johnebaker Hi John. Thank you for the reply. I didn't even think about whether it was a MEP font or not. I used the text box rather than MEPs offerings. It must be a Windows Text. It's called Autumn and yes its a bit jaggy to start with and I've
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/7/2020

  RE: How to load saved 'video effects / facial bluring' onto a new video??
  @Apollo89x I'm working on a video showing the steps. Some quick comments. You used the command to have the mask automatically follow the picture. This does not work well unless there is a lot of contrast between the object in the rectangle and the
• MAGIX

  54 answers, most recent on 4/30/2020

  RE: [Closed] [Release] ACID Pro 8 – the revolutionary DAW returns
  Acid Pro 8 - nice program, but bad yet For several years I have been using ACID for my professional job.I was looking forward to 64 bit. version so I can use the new effects already on 32 bit. they are not. Unfortunately, I have to say that the
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 3/19/2020

  Adjusting alpha masks within the movie editing suite?
  Hi, I have Magix Movie Edit Pro Plus, To create a precise alpha mask, following the contours of something, I export a frame of the movie/clip to a jpeg image, then open it in Gimp to create an alpha mask, often using the Paths tool, this is fine if
• Movie Studio

  32 answers, most recent on 3/11/2020

  RE: RGBA video overlay on existing multicam project
  @Keith-Furman Hi MEP supports the Alpha channel on import only. . . . . 3D animation in my PNG image sequence . . . Which program did you use to create the 3D animation images? I often use Blender to create an effect for use in in MEP and export