I'm trying to use image mask

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I'm trying to use image mask

Postby Satori » Mon Sep 16, 2002 8:44 am

I made an image in psp with a greenscreen background and just some plain white text on it. I'm trying to just overlay some words on top of some video in Premiere. I used image mask and set the transition settings. Problem is that when I export it, the text looks jaggedy. Am I doing this wrong? Is there a better way to do it? Also the text turns black instead of white like I want it to. Forgive me if this is a really dumb question.
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Postby Metro » Mon Sep 16, 2002 10:52 am

The easiest way to overlay text in premier is to go

File-->New-->Title

then go to

Window-->Window Options-->Tile Window Options

and set the background to black

Then Just set the font color to white and type your text, save the title and drag the title onto the timeline.

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Postby VegettoEX » Mon Sep 16, 2002 11:23 am

Metro: Unfortunately, I can guarantee you that making a "Title" in Premiere, itself, gives you no-where NEAR the control over your fonts and font effects that either PhotoShop or Paint Shop Pro give you.

Satori: I can't say I've recently used Paint Shop Pro to import any images into Premiere, but I can described a similar process that PhotoShop uses. I know the two products are very similar, so if anyone else can confirm this process for PSP, that'd be great.

The first thing you'll want to do with your images is create a new image layer for it. This new layer is where you'll put your text (etc). At some point, delete the background layer; you've now essentially got yourself an image (on a single layer) with no background. When you import this image into Premiere, it should give you an option of what layer you want to import it as ("Merged" or "Layer #" where "#" is whatever you named the layer). If you select "Merged," you'll get the image plopped over some kind of background color; you don't want that. If you select the specific layer, the image will come in with a completely transparent background, allowing you to place it where-ever you want with no worries about doing some kind of color-outing.

Of course, that's severely simpled-downed, but hopefully it helps a little bit. Play around with it, and you'll get a pretty quick grasp on it.
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Postby Satori » Mon Sep 16, 2002 11:32 am

Thanks. That helps a lot ^^
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