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  3 answers, most recent on 11/24/2012

  How to zoom in while staying in restrains of cropped image
  hi! my take consists of several video footages being played at the same time while each of them is cropped so they do not overlap, nor do i use any alpha layers or smthin similiar. the screen in my preview vindow basically looks like consisting
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  9 answers, most recent on 11/20/2012

  RE: Mental model for working with alpha masks?
   I think of masks as mirrors with some areas of silver removed -- you see what's in front (higher number track)  Bingo! You're a star, Carl, that's exactly what I was looking for. (I wasn't far out with my tentative conjecture earlier,
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  9 answers, most recent on 11/20/2012

  RE: Mental model for working with alpha masks?
  I'll jump in with an image which I hope shows clearly the Magix track viewing convention -- Looking UP through tracks from higher to lower numbers as if they were planes of a model stage set. Of course you would only see the front wall track
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  9 answers, most recent on 11/20/2012

  RE: Mental model for working with alpha masks?
  Thanks John, but the penny still hasn't dropped for me. How does that help me to visualise what's happening in the example I specified? And are you saying that you think of it 'bottom up' only when alpha is involved? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK
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  9 answers, most recent on 11/20/2012

  RE: Mental model for working with alpha masks?
  Hi John, I'm going to have to read that again in the morning a few times, after a large coffee! But right now I still don't grasp how I can see anything if the highest track number (the 'top' layer) contains a simple image or video. It's opaque.
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  9 answers, most recent on 11/20/2012

  RE: Mental model for working with alpha masks?
  Hi Terry It does, however I think of it as 'what does it let show through from a lower track number', So in your example, depending on where the black is, whatever is on a lower track number will show through. If the Alpha mask is on track
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  9 answers, most recent on 11/20/2012

  RE: Mental model for working with alpha masks?
  Thanks John, didn't know that. But it doesn't affect my question about an alpha object does it? Am I right about alpha adding transparency to objects in tracks above it (i.e. higher track numbers)? That still seems the only way I can square what
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  9 answers, most recent on 11/20/2012

  Mental model for working with alpha masks?
  I've got a block about how to visualise alpha masks in MEP that's driving me nuts and I'm hoping that someone can set me straight please! I think of MEP tracks as layers. If two opaque objects are placed in tracks 1 and 2 you will only see the
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  8 answers, most recent on 12/11/2012

  RE: Effects
  Dear John,  Thanks a lot for your kind help. Appretiate.  But I am sorry to ask you but how can I acheive Offset 150px left and 75 ones and also where can I get these alpha masks. Thanks.
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  10 answers, most recent on 11/23/2012

  RE: How can I blur the video as in imitating the unfocus lens effect?
  Hi The only effects applied are:- Video on track 1: Effects, Video Effects, Sharpness, Artistic Blur.  you only need a very small value - in the example it was set to 6 Mask on track 2: Effects, Video Effects, Chroma key, Alpha and
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  6 answers, most recent on 9/17/2014

  RE: Faded text
  Hello Terry  ! The problem with gradually coming and vanishing letters are solved. I used a black/white mask with a short gradient with a length of half the background photo,  and zoomed it out with Size/Position so much that the black part
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  5 answers, most recent on 11/3/2012

  RE: I just bought magix pro 17 plus HD can not active prgrams
  Computer ID would be a alpha-numeric code 
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  One answer, on 10/27/2012

  RE: size/position
  Hi Michael Here is an image of the timeline which will do what you want with a moving person : The white circle on a black background mask is much larger than the video image to allow for movement,  in this case it was 3840 x 2160 px ie
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  3 answers, most recent on 10/24/2012

  RE: Colour Shades
  I'd suggest trying something like: Track 1-- The background video clip Track 2 -- Your standard MEP title, with 'Video Effects' >> 'Chroma key' >> 'Alpha' applied Track 3 -- A jpeg etc of a plain field of green shades using a
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  6 answers, most recent on 10/22/2012

  RE: Where do you really need a video editing software ?
  Vesku, I beg to differ. You make a valid point about 'follywood' style if you are producing narrative videos which require trimming and sorting and a minimum of effects. But I use MEP for something complete different and Magix provides a superb
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  4 answers, most recent on 10/20/2012

  RE: This Effect
  Hi Anirban, It kind of depends on what you want to do with it from a motion point of view.  If you want the guy running and the fire/explosion to be part of the motion, I would film the running guy on green or blue screen, use a alpha channel
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  2 answers, most recent on 10/15/2012

  RE: Chroma Key
  Hi, Here is a good definition of Chroma key and how to use it.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_key Basically you take one image filmed on blue or green screen background, use chroma key to remove the background and insert that image into
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  3 answers, most recent on 10/10/2012

  RE: MEP 2013: Quirky behaviour - but temporary
  Thanks JohnnyO, but can you (anyone) spell that out in more detail please?  I don't know what you mean by "... the window that lists the effects on a clip there s an effects mask symbol that you can use to activate the mask if it is not." Do you
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  16 answers, most recent on 10/1/2012

  RE: Collage
  Hi Carl Interesting - your method was the original one I tried and I could not get the fourth image to appear correctly hence my 2 stage option - will try again and see if I can find what I messed up LOL,  Grrr    (Smileys still not
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  16 answers, most recent on 10/1/2012

  RE: Collage
  Not a collage (yet) but I've got it in one go!  Each of the clips is reduced to 50% size and keyframed for start and end positions. Note that naming the masks as '..._alpha.jpg' will get effect applied automatically. Now to figure the
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  3 answers, most recent on 9/28/2012

  RE: Greenscreen Backgrounds
  Hi, A lot depends on what type of loops you are looking for.  Is it people, or effects you are looking for?  If it is people, Carl has given you two really good sources but they can be pretty expensive based on the license you need.  If it is
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  3 answers, most recent on 9/10/2012

  RE: Jumping and Transparent Texts
  Hi Anirban, George No special software required for this one - can all be done in MEP as follows: 1. On a track place your movie 2. On the next track down place the text title, white letters with a very bold font and large font size 3. On
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  2 answers, most recent on 8/12/2012

  RE: How can I correct the Choppy Playback with Movie Edit Pro MX.
  Did you see the post at the top of the page? Did you follow the steps listed, in particular: - Searching for previous threads on this topic (with keywords like 'jerky', 'choppy', etc) - DETAILS of what you're doing and seeing; in this case,
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  One answer, on 8/3/2012

  RE: Colour and Black -n-White
  To do this to a video you would have to edit frame-by-frame. That would be a lot of editing... which I think would be to much to do for anyone at this level. If the item in the video was centered at all times I could see using a alpha effect