New VS10 (upgrade) User w/ Overlay and Render ?'s

[jvaughn0311]

Good day - I have been given the privilege to create a video for my churches teen activity. Several of us have shot the clips and I have put the first evening¡¦s video together from video captured from my camcorder. It is a spoof from COPS - I will upload it to the video studio veoh channel once complete and you can see how my second attempt with VS 10 went. Questions - 1 - Overlays - is there a way to change the opacity on a color overlay? - 2 - Render - any recommendation on rendering - we are going to be shooting these videos through a projector onto a white screen. I am not sure how large of an image the projector will throw it, but it is considerably sizeable and I did not want the video to lose quality when enlarged. Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing from you all.

[Black Lab]

With a clip selected in an Overlay track the Attribut tab should be active. Click on Mask & Chroma Key. To the left (under the word Edit) are two boxes. The top one is Transparency. Changing that value will change the transparency of the entire clip.

If you click on the Apply Overlay Options box you can choose Chroma Key. Click on the Similarity box to choose a color you wish to Chroma Key out (you can also use the Eye Dropper tool to choose a color). The box to the right of that adjust the amount of color similarity

[Ken Berry]

Regarding your second question, if you keep your bitrate high when producing both your final DVD-compatible mpeg-2 (Share > Create Video File > DVD) and your actual disc (by making sure 'do not convert compliant mpeg files' is checked in the Options cogwheel icon in bottom left of the burning screen), the projected quality should remain high.

The downside is that you will normally only fit around an hour of video onto a single layer DVD using a high quality bitrate of 8000 kbps, and a bit more if you use one of the more compressed but high quality audio formats like Dolby or mpeg layer 2, instead of LPCM.

Mind you, depending on your original video quality, dropping the bitrate down to 6000 kbps should still give you good to very good quality, and you would fit 90 minutes or more on a single layer DVD.

[ArcAngel]

For item #1, you can simply use the Color correction Tool to modify color and brighness properties.

You can also use a certain video filter and just modify the effects with the keframe.