When I loaded my SP1 of UMSP7.0 upgrade from v6.0VE, the colour-key overlays were really bad. As recommended, I loaded SP2 and they got a lot better but, to my mind they are still not as good as when I was running on UMSP6.0VE; the problem of 'scruffy edges' is still appearing even though much less noticeable than with SP1.
I created a moving title with Cool3D and set the background to
- black (default)
- white
- pure green
- pure blue
before importing each into separate UMSP projects as colour-key overlays but, in every case, I get artifacts (is this the right term ?) around the edges of the characters in the rendered overlay.
The bad news is that, now, even in v6.0VE, the overlays are not working as well as they used to even when I uninstall v7.0.
Any recommendations ?
Before, I was on UMSP6.0VE with
PIII/700MHz / Win 98SE / 256Mb RAM
Now I am on
PIV HT 3.0Ghz / WinXP sp1 / 512Mb DDR
Colour key overlays with UMSP7.0 SP2
For good clean overlays using Cool3D, check out this article on Ulead's site:
http://www.ulead.com/learning/c3ds/c3ds_05_1.htm
The key is outputing a 32-bit avi file from Cool3D and loading it into one of MSPs overlay tracks (V1-V99) and setting the overlay option to alpha.
Hope that helps.
- Ken
http://www.ulead.com/learning/c3ds/c3ds_05_1.htm
The key is outputing a 32-bit avi file from Cool3D and loading it into one of MSPs overlay tracks (V1-V99) and setting the overlay option to alpha.
Hope that helps.
- Ken
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Terry Stetler
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An alternative to using 32 bit *.avi is saving the animation as a *.tga image sequence with transparancy turned on in the save dialog.
This will create a series of *.tga's with an alpha channel named in sequence (file0000.tga, file0001.tga etc.). 'tis best to put 'em in their own folder.
Once this is accomplished MediaStudio Pro can import the image sequence as a *.UIS (Ulead Image Sequence). This is done using the video import dialog, but choosing the UIS filetype.
Now click the Options button and define the sequence by selecting the first one you want to use, how many images to import from that point, setting the frame rate and exiting.
Now a file will be created with a *.UIS extension that can be loaded into MSPro's timeline and treated like any video file.
The advantage:
you can load each frame (or a bunch of frames) into a photo editor and modify them at your lesure, adding things like lightsabers or whatever else your little heart desires.
It's called "Rotoscoping", and while MSPro's Video Paint is also a rotoscoping tool good image editors have a LOT more features....even if some may not be able to be automated.
Still, some photo editors have task managers that can automate some changes over a whole folder of images.
Also: MSPro itself can be used to convert live video into an image sequence for later mofication in photo editors. From there you can literally go nuts.
This will create a series of *.tga's with an alpha channel named in sequence (file0000.tga, file0001.tga etc.). 'tis best to put 'em in their own folder.
Once this is accomplished MediaStudio Pro can import the image sequence as a *.UIS (Ulead Image Sequence). This is done using the video import dialog, but choosing the UIS filetype.
Now click the Options button and define the sequence by selecting the first one you want to use, how many images to import from that point, setting the frame rate and exiting.
Now a file will be created with a *.UIS extension that can be loaded into MSPro's timeline and treated like any video file.
The advantage:
you can load each frame (or a bunch of frames) into a photo editor and modify them at your lesure, adding things like lightsabers or whatever else your little heart desires.
It's called "Rotoscoping", and while MSPro's Video Paint is also a rotoscoping tool good image editors have a LOT more features....even if some may not be able to be automated.
Still, some photo editors have task managers that can automate some changes over a whole folder of images.
Also: MSPro itself can be used to convert live video into an image sequence for later mofication in photo editors. From there you can literally go nuts.
Terry Stetler