• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 7/21/2015

  RE: Xara Photo & Graphics Designers 11 out - still does not work properly with MEP
  Xara Designer Pro X11 is now out and I have been trying out the registered trial version, 64bit. After some teething problems, like DPX11 would not open from MEP2015 Premium, it now does. It seems that a test with MEP2014Plus adjusted something
• 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

  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

  10 answers, most recent on 9/8/2015

  RE: Transparent Button?
  Hi, It seems to me that your PNG is not transparent. What program did you use to make it? What does it look like in various image viewers or editors? Also, can you provide full details of how you're adding and editing the button in MEP
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 9/8/2015

  RE: Transparent Button?
  Hi, It seems to me that your PNG is not transparent. What program did you use to make it? What does it look like in various image viewers or editors? Also, can you provide full details of how you're adding and editing the button in MEP 11.
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 9/8/2015

  Transparent Button?
  Hello, I'm using Movie Edit Pro 11.0.1.4 in Windows 7 for a DVD project. I'm using a .png with a transparent background as a menu button, but the button is showing up onscreen with white behind it. What can I do to ensure that this button shows
• 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

  9 answers, most recent on 8/10/2015

  RE: Transistioning Titles
  @Terry, That's brilliant! I played with this a bit. I followed what you did, then dragged them onto track 2 and placed a video on track 1. I used a black image. Then I gave the black image a chromakey Black, which made it transparent.  The
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi Jerry, Put it on a higher numbered track, select it, go to Effects, Video effects, Chroma key, and click on Black. The only problem is that the black part around the glow is black instead of transparent. See below. This can be
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi @ jdycus . . . . I'd like to email you the lower third to see if you can make it work. Do you have MEP 2015? . . . . I agree with Terry can you upload a sample of the lower third you want to use for us to test, and yes I do have MEP
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 6/14/2015

  RE: Movie edit pro Menus - I want to add another button like the existing ones on a muenu screen; How?
  Hi . . . . I want to add another button like the existing ones on a menu screen; How? . . . . In menu edit mode click the green plus sign as shown below   In the dialog shown below: Add the text label to be displayed
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 6/2/2015

  RE: MEP2014 help me understand masks !
  Hi, I'm travelling and don't have my computer, so I can't test it out. I can't download the zip file on my tablet either. From what I can see, you have applied a mask to the object on track 2, using the popdown on the effect. This mask only
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  6 answers, most recent on 6/2/2015

  RE: MEP2014 help me understand masks !
  Thank you browj2, but I can't make it hide (transparent) the content that is bellow the mask black areas, or white if I inverted the mask, somehow the mask is applied only to coloor effects, but not for enlarging the image.  Please check the
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  6 answers, most recent on 6/2/2015

  RE: MEP2014 help me understand masks !
  Hi, Take a look at some of the tutorials under the tutorials tab about masks. There are several. If you make a png file with a transparent background and don't give it a chromakey effect, you will see whatever is not transparent plus whatever
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 6/2/2015

  MEP2014 help me understand masks !
  Hello guys, is there anyone around to give me some help, I don't know If I missunderstood the ussage of mask or is just imposibble to hide some areas of a movieclip? Please check out the image bellow, you can see I have a PNG file with a map
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 4/9/2015

  [Closed] Transparency
  Thank you John and Carl for all your ideas. The software I'm using for making a transparency is Xara 9, a really good program, stll playing with it at the moment. Regards Michael
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  13 answers, most recent on 4/13/2015

  RE: Cut out within a video
  Hi John, MEP can use Magix Xara graphics program to create an animated mask, but you have to have Xara Photo & Graphics Designer or Xara Designer Pro X. I have X9 which works and X10 which doesn't work anymore after I reinstalled the OS on a
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 4/13/2015

  RE: Cut out within a video
  Hi Just to add a possible third method if the cut out needs to move . Depending on the contrast/brightness of the part you want to make transparent it may be possible to create a moving mask. Can you post an image what the object and
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 4/13/2015

  RE: Cut out within a video
  Hi John, The only other possibility I can think of other than John's suggestion would be if the foreground was a still image for the required time. Such as a snapshot taken of your foreground video. You could then make the target area of that