Please help Newbie with Transparency issues!

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I'm trying to put titles over this .mpg clip that I have but have stumbled onto some problems. First of all, no matter how I do the titles; whether it be importing photoshop files, or using the Titler in premiere, it doesn't seem to work. I've used the alpha channel keys, opacity rubberband, and everything else that I can think of, and still it doesn't work. Anybody know what's wrong? Any help will be "MUCH" appreciated!

- J.L.

 

[leonec]

All titles that will be transparnet need to be in the first track on you time line, this is the only place where using an alpha channel will work. so place the title there and goto the effects pallete and setup the transparenties.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

"All titles that will be transparnet need to be in the first track on you time line, this is the only place where using an alpha channel will work."

Whaaaat!? I have transparent things and masks all over my timeline and in all sorts of tracks -- but never in Track 1.

JL, There are several ways to do transparency, but you're probably going to be better off doing them in the superimposition tracks, which are all tracks above Track 1.

If your titles are Photoshop files, then check and make sure that you have a valid alpha channel. Forgive me if you already know this, but an alpha channel is not a layer, it is something completely different and you'll find it on the Channels palette.

Take a look at

http://www.petting-zoo.org/Dreamquest_Animation.html

where I show my Assistants how to build images with alpha channel masks.

When you import the file to the timeline, right-click on it, select Video >> Transparency. From the drop-down, choose "Alpha Channel". The little preview window should show you a picture of your title -- and then the instant you choose "alpha channel", it'll show you an image of the layer below it.

Verify by holding the ALT key down and clicking on the timeline to place the marker over your new title.

Any help?
Edward

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