Transpancy is a must! Or I will look....

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:33 pm

Okay, I'v used Transparancies with Premeir in the past. But now I want to do... 3 trasparancies over a backround. What files should I use at what settings?
I'm just getting still pictures to move accros the screen, so nothing fancey. I'm just gettings some problems (I bearly got one trasparancy right).
Help is good, so spred the love

bum · Post by **bum** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:55 am

3 transperancies will generaly look worse than it will good. but if ya do use them, the best format is probably bitmap (bmp) or png. jpegs arent that great. then again with 3 transperant images on screen at once no-ones gona notice the difference, so it woent realy mater. if ya wana make all 3 images ya should probably set the opacity level to something even, which in this case would be 33% . though play around changing it a bit to see what works best.

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 11:03 am

Good to know that. But I want to actualy get areas in the image to be completely transparant and other bits to be completly opake (I hate spelling!).
At home DDR is my goal. I have the first top arrows that don't move, then I have the next video layer as the even mesures and the next as the odd measures. I have the top layer down fine, but the even and odds don't go thew to the backround. At least I don't know what I'm doing.

Gif has transparancy=area should not be white
PSD has transparancy=area should not be white
It still white.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 11:09 am

In psd file, make sure that you make an area actually transparent. Then you should be able to just bring it into premiere and it will automatically keep the transparency.

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 12:29 pm

Yeah, I'll make a new file and try PSDs again. I did it before and it didn't work. But I'll try.
*this will take for ever!*

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:42 pm

I like tiff for such transparencies.

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:42 am

You can't have variable transparancy on a Tiff. Its either Solid or Transpartant.

But I found the problem. Its about setting up the transparancy in the correct order. If you go for a transparancy thew the top one, It will go thew the top on to the one underneath. Then the one underneath to the Backround needs to be transparent too. So you change that transparancy. But! The top one only goes thew to the second one and not the backround as well! You have to set up the bottom transparancy to that the top transparancy can see thew both at the same time.

I don't lik that.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:51 pm

Nekoboy Sal wrote:You can't have variable transparancy on a Tiff. Its either Solid or Transpartant.

You mean I can't do this...?

Nekoboy Sal wrote:Its about setting up the transparancy in the correct order. If you go for a transparancy thew the top one, It will go thew the top on to the one underneath. Then the one underneath to the Backround needs to be transparent too. So you change that transparancy. But! The top one only goes thew to the second one and not the backround as well! You have to set up the bottom transparancy to that the top transparancy can see thew both at the same time.

I don't lik that.

How else would the program know that the bottom one needs to be transparent also unless you tell it? It isn't too hard to hold control, select both clips and then go into the clip menu to apply the transparency to both at the same time. BTW what transparency type are you using?

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:06 pm

Nekoboy Sal wrote:But! The top one only goes thew to the second one and not the backround as well! You have to set up the bottom transparancy to that the top transparancy can see thew both at the same time.

I don't lik that.

Actually I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you saying that you have to set a transparency option on the bottom most layer in order to just get through the second layer? Did you use the alpha channel transparency here?

In the folowing example I only applied the alpha channel to the top most images.

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 1:01 pm

Hey I forgot all about this topic! Now lets read what was said here since last.

Okay so I guess Tiffs do have variable transparancy.

Yes I mean I have to set the bottom first before the top. But I never thought about doing both at the same time. I can't stand not having Shift and Alt controll selection like in Photoshop, so I never select more than one thing at a time for lack of practice. I'll have to see if it works after I get Photoshop up again. Stupid Pike! Killing my stuff!

One other thing. I'd like to know more about the transparancies. I only understand a few of them. Blue screen and Green screen are easy, Diffrence and some others I get. Bla. I'll figure them out if I need them.