Adjusting Opacity

CTJ wrote on 8/3/2005, 12:48 PM

I made a watermark; one of a gif in paint brush (has a picture and text). When I drop it on the time line and attempt to get it positioned in the lower corner with pan/crop I can only get it to go so far…how I can position it lower. The pan and crop grab handles are hid after pulling so far.

2nd question – on this particular water mark it shows the white background of my gif, when I use the slider on the left side I have to lower the opacity so low that the border disappears but so does the picture. How do I eliminate the background (white background borders) without getting rid of my logo.

Thanks,

Comments

Former user wrote on 8/3/2005, 12:50 PM

1) Use track motion, not pan/crop.

2) Create the unwanted area in a color that you can chromakey out.

Dave T2

Chienworks wrote on 8/3/2005, 12:51 PM

Open up the Pan/Crop window for the watermark, right-mouse-button click inside the cropping frame, choose "Match output aspect". You may need to resize the cropping frame to contain the entire watermark. Now you'll be able to place it anywhere in the output frame.

Assuming you have no white in the logo itself, you can use the Chroma keyer effect to eliminate the white background. Probably better yet is to set the white background color to transparent when saving the .gif file.

CTJ wrote on 8/3/2005, 2:12 PM

Got cha