Background Videos

Nictoe · Post by **Nictoe** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 3:40 am

Just wanted to know if MSP7 supports background videos. Actually I wanted to create a video within a video. It would be a small frame subject narrative foreground video against a looping background video.

jday · Post by **jday** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 4:18 am

Yes. MSP7 supports multiple video and overlay tracks. The overlay track can be sized and placed wherever you wish over the backgroud tracks.

Nictoe · Post by **Nictoe** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:39 pm

Sure wish there were a few tutorials on this.

jday · Post by **jday** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:21 pm

There are tutorials in the MSP User's Manual. If you don't have the User's Manual, you can download it from the Ulead site. The PiP (Picture in a Picture) is created using the "moving path" procedure. This is all explained in the User's Manual under the "Tutorials" chapter under "Tutorial 2: Video Editor", "Artisitc and Creative Techniques", "Creating a Moving Path." I hope this helps.

Nictoe · Post by **Nictoe** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:55 am

I'll try that out, but for now, I 've decided to use a still image with voice narrative foreground,against a background video. I just got to figure out, how to 'loop' the background video with the foreground audio narrative, since the narrative is a bit longer than the background video.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:20 pm

Nictoe wrote:I'll try that out, but for now, I 've decided to use a still image with voice narrative foreground,against a background video. I just got to figure out, how to 'loop' the background video with the foreground audio narrative, since the narrative is a bit longer than the background video.

Although written with a DVD Menu in mind, this may help
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=11456

Steve J

tv_news_guy · Post by **tv_news_guy** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:16 pm

Hi Nictoe,

Couple of ideas.. simplest by far is simply to change the duration of the background video. If it is 3 minutes long and you needed 4 minutes. Just go into the duration and change the length to 4 minutes.

Another possibility is to insert the same video onto your timeline and dissolve between each (in as close to an invisible point to the viewer as possible.)

If neither of those is to your liking. Sometimes you can fool the eye. By that I mean.. play the backround video for a bit.. then have the picture zoom up to full screen for a sec and then back to where it was.. while the pic is at full screen... then start the video over again.

Now bear in mind I have no idea what the video is of. If it is somebody talking or something else that would be easy to spot the speed change.. then probably changing the duration (Ie: the speed the video plays at) would not be a great idea.

Hope one of these helps.

Bill tv_news_guy

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:33 pm

Ken Lowther - forum member klowther has provided a number of free looping backgrounds
here

Alludo USER to USER Web Board

Background Videos

Background Videos

Re: video not being long enough.