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  One answer, on 10/20/2015

  RE: does magix movie maker software allow user to hi-light, arrow or cloud (somewhere identify) a person on in the video?
  Hi Under the Effects tab, Design elements, Image objects there are several objects in the various sections which you can use to highlight / point to a person. Without knowing your skill level with MEP the basic idea is you add one of the
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 10/5/2015

  RE: Chroma Key
  Hi Bill, Did you look up Chroma in the manual? F1, Search, Chroma. Everything is defined, but not in detail. Try out the various ones to see what they do. Look up Chroma, Alpha, masks in this Q&A part and also in the Forum tab. There have
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 10/5/2015

  Chroma Key
  Is there a tutorial anywhere on Chroma-key? I've used the idea on another programme but can't follow the terminology in MEP plus 2016. I can find the Chroma key effect but the options of ' Stamp, colour, mix, Green, blue, water, Alpha, black,
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 8/10/2015

  RE: Transistioning Titles
  Hallo I tried to to bring this to the german guys and I has been successfull. But Nowaday it will not run... my start is track 1 only a picture of a sky track 3 one jpg black and with chroma key "alpha" and one title. Since the last week
• Video Pro X

  2 answers, most recent on 8/4/2015

  RE: Tethering
  Hi, There are a couple of ways to do this, but they get down to what John E Baker indicated. Here is another way. Create a simple white rectangle with a feathered edge. Make it quite large, like about 600 px high by 400 wide. I used Xara for
• Video Pro X

  2 answers, most recent on 8/4/2015

  RE: Tethering
  Hi The technique you are referring to is called Picture in Picture (PIP). MEP has a set of PIP templates available on the Effects tab, Design elements, Picture in picture. What you want to do is not covered by these templates, however it is
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  @Peter, Thank you for the explanation. I did more testing using the new Xara Designer Pro X11 (still on trial). In Xara, I used AVI uncompressed, Transparent, quality cannot be changed. When I check the Metadata of the AVI files produced by
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi John C.B. The first example is simply the objects exported with a transparent background. This is what I assume to be a video with an alpha channel. Is this correct? Peter, is this what you mean by an avi with an alpha channel? Maybe,
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
    @Terry, Thanks for the information. This answers some of my questions and confirms that MEP can handle alpha channel transparency on the import side but not on the export side. You should have gone for the Xara offer. It is truly
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  @Terry, Thanks for the information. This answers some of my questions and confirms that MEP can handle alpha channel transparency on the import side but not on the export side. You should have gone for the Xara offer. It is truly amazing. If
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 9/8/2015

  RE: Transparent Button?
  ADFAICS to get a transparent background to the image you need to save it as a BMP file with an Alpha channel. OK, John, put me out of my misery: what's the D in that acronym please?
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
    Hi All MEP doesn't support alpha channel video, unfortunately, only images. Not so! MEP has always worked with a 32bit RGBA (A=Alpha channel) AVI dropped on the track below the video, without having to apply any further Alpha
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 9/8/2015

  RE: Transparent Button?
  Hi, I just tried this with a png that I created in Xara and exported, true color&alpha, transparent. It was the first frame in the movie and was thus used for the button. In the Burn menu, to get the background black, I clicked on my image,
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  John EB, you did it! It works. Thanks bunches. Hi @jdycus It can be done with the clip you supplied - the mask you need is actually towards the end of the clip ie the section with the white moving bar - proceed as
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 9/8/2015

  RE: Transparent Button?
  Hi ADFAICS to get a transparent background to the image you need to save it as a BMP file with an Alpha channel. This can be done in Photoshop however I do not have Photoshop elements so cannot test it. To do this in Photoshop see this
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  @John EB, Well spotted! Thanks for figuring this out, and the answer was right in front of us. @John EB and Peter As for what Peter mentioned, I am still confused about alpha channels in videos. I made up this quick video using avi
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi @jdycus It can be done with the clip you supplied - the mask you need is actually towards the end of the clip ie the section with the white moving bar - proceed as follows Place the lower third clip onto the timeline, below the
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi All MEP doesn't support alpha channel video, unfortunately, only images. Not so! MEP has always worked with a 32bit RGBA (A=Alpha channel) AVI dropped on the track below the video, without having to apply any further Alpha or Chroma key
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Yes, I was afraid that Vimeo would convert & lose the alpha channel. If you are interested in further testing, I can send to you via "We Transfer".
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi @ jdycus Apologies for being pedantic however in posting the lower thirds video file to Vimeo it has been converted and the Alpha channel lost so we are not testing like for like. Fortunately in this case the background, as I suspected
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
    @Terry and John EB, Did you find any other way than what I described? Any way to remove the black halo around the moving bright light other than using an alpha mask? Hi John, No, I got same result that you and John EB described
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  @Terry and John EB, Did you find any other way than what I described? Any way to remove the black halo around the moving bright light other than using an alpha mask? I tried making my first lower third.I've been saving this for quite a while.
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi Jerry, To add to my previous answer, I looked at how Magix does the lower thirds. They use a B&W alpha mask, which is what your lower third would need. See below. The mask allows the white light around the globe to shine with a
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
    Hmm - replied earlier but it seems to have vanished into Internet limbo. Reconstructing... Hi Jerry, Did you try without any Chroma? MEP doesn't support alpha channel video, unfortunately, only images. If you can upload to