Hi,
I am new to this forum and tried to find a solution to my question from the existing ones, but have not found anything. Hope you can help. I am trying to add a new object to the decoration folder. I noticed they are all .png files, so I created a new png item with a transparent background ( with Gimp) and saved it in the same folder where all the other original ones are. It does come up in the list and I can add it to my video, but it changes the background to white, even though the original one has definitely a transparent background. What am I doing wrong. This is driving me crazy. Thanks for all your help.
Add new object to Ulead11 with transparent background
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Re: Add new object to Ulead11 with transparent background
Welcome to the forums, 
Are you adding your PNG file (via the library) to the Main video track or one of the overlay tracks? VS does not recognize alpha channel for video and objects in the main track. All 32-bit objects need to be added to an overlay track to use the alpha channel. There are some forms of PNG that VS may have problems seeing the alpha channel. If so you can chroma-key the background color out. It's much easier to do with the common colors of green and blue, so long as those colors do not make up a large part of your image / object to be seen.
Are you adding your PNG file (via the library) to the Main video track or one of the overlay tracks? VS does not recognize alpha channel for video and objects in the main track. All 32-bit objects need to be added to an overlay track to use the alpha channel. There are some forms of PNG that VS may have problems seeing the alpha channel. If so you can chroma-key the background color out. It's much easier to do with the common colors of green and blue, so long as those colors do not make up a large part of your image / object to be seen.
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Re: Add new object to Ulead11 with transparent background
Hi, thanks for you qick answer. I added it to one of the overlay tracks. So, that's not the problem. I am not really a wizard when it comes to video software. So, I have no idea what chroma-key. Could you explain, what I have to do, please.