Premiere Pro has started to do something weird.
I have a scene with a singer and I have colored circles each on their own track (circles are moving). The circles are spotlights (200x200) of different colors.
When I take the spotlights and I put the opacity within the image properties to anything other than 100% (30, 40, 80%) the background scene dissapears (so it would look like a black screen with spotlights everywhere). As soon as I put all of them at 100% the background comes back.
Now if I open the image in Photoshop and I give the circle a 30% opacity and put it into the sequence (opacity at 100% in Premiere), the background works and all is fine but I'd like for the opacity to shift in the sequence with the music (brighter and darker) so I'd need the opacity setting from withing Premiere to work.
Anyone seen this opacity problem before?
Ayanefan
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DriftRoot
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Let me get this straight:
Track 1: Singers
Track 2-whatever: Spotlights
You're trying to make the spotlights less opaque, so that when they move around over the singers, you can see the singers through them, but colored. Do you want to see the parts of the singers NOT in the spotlight or do you WANT everything black? I'm guess the former, so I ask the following:
Are your original spotlight files PSD files with a very clear alpha channel and/or transparent background layer? If the spotlights do not contain their own opacity information, Premiere will automatically assign them a completely opaque status and (I think) THAT is causing a background "black out" when you fiddle with their opacity settings under the effect controls. When you manually set the opacity for those files in PS, howver, you're giving them what Premiere needs to make them work, transparency-wise, but only as a static property that can be changed over time only up to that 30%. You can certainly change the opacity of a partially opaque file over time, btw.
In summary, make sure those spotlight files are PSD files and do one of the following -
1. Provide embedded transparency information by giving them a background layer that's completely transparent and then importing only the spotlight layer.
2. Give them an alpha channel that corresponds to the desired transparency and import the file as merged footage.
If these things don't work, then something else is going on, possibly with the other tracks you're working with. I think. Just trying to be helpful.
Track 1: Singers
Track 2-whatever: Spotlights
You're trying to make the spotlights less opaque, so that when they move around over the singers, you can see the singers through them, but colored. Do you want to see the parts of the singers NOT in the spotlight or do you WANT everything black? I'm guess the former, so I ask the following:
Are your original spotlight files PSD files with a very clear alpha channel and/or transparent background layer? If the spotlights do not contain their own opacity information, Premiere will automatically assign them a completely opaque status and (I think) THAT is causing a background "black out" when you fiddle with their opacity settings under the effect controls. When you manually set the opacity for those files in PS, howver, you're giving them what Premiere needs to make them work, transparency-wise, but only as a static property that can be changed over time only up to that 30%. You can certainly change the opacity of a partially opaque file over time, btw.
In summary, make sure those spotlight files are PSD files and do one of the following -
1. Provide embedded transparency information by giving them a background layer that's completely transparent and then importing only the spotlight layer.
2. Give them an alpha channel that corresponds to the desired transparency and import the file as merged footage.
If these things don't work, then something else is going on, possibly with the other tracks you're working with. I think. Just trying to be helpful.
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Ayanefan
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The spotlight is basically a circle, 200x200 dpi psd file with a transparent background, no opacity, just full color. Importing this into Premiere and adding it as track 2 and modifying the opacity properties of the spotlight image to 30% (very transparent so the background comes through, just like shining a colored light on someone, that portion will look like a colored light is on them).
So, you have track 1 which is the movie scene, track 2 is the "spotlight" whose location will be over a person or object. As long as the opacity is not 100%, the background will dissapear, leaving the spot only. This is odd because the scene is 720x480 and the spotlight is 200x200, there shouldn't be a problem.
So, you have track 1 which is the movie scene, track 2 is the "spotlight" whose location will be over a person or object. As long as the opacity is not 100%, the background will dissapear, leaving the spot only. This is odd because the scene is 720x480 and the spotlight is 200x200, there shouldn't be a problem.
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gangstaj8
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First off, when you say your adjusting the "opacity properties", do you mean the rubber-band on the clip, or the transparency settings? I believe you should be choosing either Chroma or RGB Difference under the Key Type in the Transparency settings for each of your spotlights. Then, if your transparent layer (background) is given a non-transparent color, likely white, eye-drop that color so you can see Track 1 in the preview window. Someone correct me, though, if I'm wrong.
Another thing to consider, if your importing .PSD files into Premiere, that may be causing a conflict somehow with the layers. Try importing them as .BMP files and see if you have any better luck.
Another thing to consider, if your importing .PSD files into Premiere, that may be causing a conflict somehow with the layers. Try importing them as .BMP files and see if you have any better luck.
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Yeah, it's probably the way Premiere imports .psd files. I'd export them as .PNG files from Photoshop, then bring them into Premiere for editing. Should fix your problem.
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