Animations with transparent background question

[wordguy]

Hi,

I just bought Videostudio X6. I was impressed with the intro video of the snowboarder with the "dynamic data" odometer animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... YWGQnjFWmk

(approx 20 sec in)

How do you do this? Can someone point me to a tutorial or walkthrough.

Thanks,

David

[BrianCee]

The first secret to virtually all that video is 'layers' - this enables you to build up images over images and then animate those images in various ways.

I would suspect that the actual effect you are interested in was not done by transparency as such - but by using VideoStudios 'greenscreen' options - I say that because I have found it is almost impossible to get a video with transparency - but it is easy to make a plain video background disappear - so that a video of that odometer on a green (or any really) colour background could be made invisible.

The still images which move are almost certainly just transparent tiff's or png's which you can make in many image manipulation programmes and animated by different options within VS. You will find some objects for use if you click on the flower icon down the right side of the preview screen - then at the top of the library pane which opens change the dropdown to 'object' - you can then drag any of those down into an overlay track (with a video in the top track) and observe what happens.

There are several places you can watch various tutorials for free - first within VideoStudio - open the Corel guide and click on the "Learn" tab and you will find a number of videos - one explains applying motion.

Then try here :-

http://www.corel.com/corel/pages/index. ... 0117#all11


This gentleman also has many incredible tutorials :- http://www.gripps.net/


and don't forget Youtube - enter VideoStudio in their search bar and you will find a few hundred tutorials - may even find some of mine.


to explain the whole procedure in one post is a bit of a major task - but have a look at those tutorials and come back here with questions and I'm sure we can help you

[Kingston]

I read where X6 now supports MOV files with transparency, so I tried it and it's true. But at first it didn't seem like it. I created an animation with Motion Studio 3D and saved it to a MOV file with the Animation codec / 32-bits. The transparency didn't work correctly, and finally came to the conclusion that Motion Studio 3D doesn't support transparency when saving to a MOV file. However, MOV (Animation/32 bit) files I created in other applications and then brought into X6 and put on the overlay track had transparency working correctly.