Transparent Text Etc.

[John Kelly]

Hi there, Ken and PapaJohn,

I have, for myself at least, solved the issue of having text with a
transparent background or any other type of image on top of a movie. The
text can change colour, rotate through all three axis and of course scale or
deform itself and for images the rotate, scale, deform and move around
options work totally brilliantly. There is no pre-processing or special
consideration to take and there are no ugly edges around the object that you
want to have a transparent background.

It may be my lack of knowledge, I have had problems getting it to save in a
16:9 format...so MM2 comes in handy there.

The program is by AIST and is called MovieXone, the copy I have is the one
they give away, and although it is short on some of the transitions that MM2
has it is unrestricted. The website (which for some reason I can not get
onto today) is www.aist.com. If anyone cannot get the program, I can always
email it to them.

I have just done a very fast edit of a previous video clip (Fun +) and I am
updating the result as I type...again to the Fun + tab of the video section

 

[PapaJohn]

Thanks John,

I have MovieXone in my toolbox. It's a nice piece of software, but I seldom
use it. Maybe because I use Premiere when I want to do something that I
can't do in MM2.

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

I'm sure Premiere is a nice piece of kit. But for a free piece of software
Version 4 of MovieXone is quite something. In fact I am thinking of buying
their package its two levels up from MovieXone, Movie DV I think its called
and for around US $40 is very good value indeed. I hate the interface, but
at least I now understand how to use it...it took some time , and if it had
not been for the search for transparent backgrounds I would not have
bothered with it....just goes to show that first impressions are not always
correct.

 

[Ken]

John,

Thanks for the advice. Do you use moviexone to apply a transparency overlay,
or simply to design a clip with a transparent background which you import
into mm2?

I have tried to download the software with no luck. It looks like they have
a new version (moviexone plus) which they are charging for. I could not find
a link to the free version. It sounds like a tool I would be interested in.
If you know the direct link to the download page, please let me know.

Thanks for the update!
Ken

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

using MovieXone you can apply text of any font/size/colour/position in a 3D
space and move and or change its colour in time. I have so far only done it
as an exercise. But if you wanted to predominantly use MM2 (I would, its
much easier to use than MovieXone) you do the obvious and import the
section to be worked on and then send it back to MM2.

The download page seems to have gone walkabout. I can email it too you if
you wish. It is a little over 26MB so you will need to make sure that your
email account will be able to accept that size of file. You will also have
to tell me whether you want to have the message broken up into smaller
units and a start time for me to send it, if your email account requires
something smaller.

 

[Ken]

John,

Sadly, my email is limited to a wimpy 2MB. You would have to cut the file
into 13 pieces... very unlucky I will look into other options. Thanks
again.

Ken

Hi there,

using MovieXone you can apply text of any font/size/colour/position in a 3D
space and move and or change its colour in time. I have so far only done it
as an exercise. But if you wanted to predominantly use MM2 (I would, its
much easier to use than MovieXone) you do the obvious and import the
section to be worked on and then send it back to MM2.

The download page seems to have gone walkabout. I can email it too you if
you wish. It is a little over 26MB so you will need to make sure that your
email account will be able to accept that size of file. You will also have
to tell me whether you want to have the message broken up into smaller
units and a start time for me to send it, if your email account requires
something smaller.

sea.

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

I will put it up on my website for today and tomorrow only....look for the
link on the video page. I will set the page up after sending this

 

[John Kelly]

The file and web page are uploading right now....my upload speed is rather
low at the moment, so it may take 15 mins or more.

 

[John Kelly]

Hi again Ken,

The file is still only 3/4 uploaded, sorry about this. Throughput has
dropped real low at this end.

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,
You can now download the file

 

[Ken]

John,

Thank you! I got it. It sounds like it is much more flexible in it's
handling of text and title overlays. Thanks again!

Ken

The file and web page are uploading right now....my upload speed is rather
low at the moment, so it may take 15 mins or more.

sea.

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

Yes, once you get past the awfully interface it turns into a very neat
package. I will leave the file on until maybe this time tomorrow. I had to
remove an amazing amount of stuff just to squeeze this one in.