Hi Randy,

If the computer store is still open (Compusa if you have to), dash-out and drop a hundred bucks on the Hemera Photo-Objects II 50,000... I found over 700 photos with alpha under "christmas" and over 1200 photos with alpha under "toys".

These are photos, not clip-art drawings, exportable as PNG.

Useful for a *lot* of things, this collection.

http://www.hemera.com/business/po.htm

HTH, MPH

Tips:
http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html

I didn't expect it to be that easy...thank you salad, I found a perfect one!
Randy

Thanks Marty, I'll dash out...tomorrow (I live 20 miles from town).
Thanks again,
Randy

Actually, Randy....I hope you didn't encounter what I did. I mean, ya got me thinkin, it being that time of year and all. So I browsed around a bit on some of those links, and have never seen the likes of SO MANY ANNOYING POP UPS. Sorry!

Hope you found what ya need though. Don't forget to dump the 200MB of cookies after all the pop ups and junk!
Felt like that guy on that one commercial, where ya think he's playing a video game, but he's just trying to click & close all the pop ups............I love that!

Well hell, I was all excited to get started this morning making my newly acquired Santa and sleigh fly across the screen but I can't seem to key out the background. At the website they offered them in 3 flavors of background, white, black and gray. When I open them in VV3 they all have black backgrounds and I can't key them out. From what I've gathered here, I'm guessing it's because they don't have an alpha channel and I'll have to buy some special software and then take a week to learn the program, right? FWIW, in "Windows picture and fax viewer" they all have white backgrounds!
TIA,
Randy

Hi Randy,

What flavor file are they?

Plus, you may still be able to chroma-key...


MPH

Hey Marty,
I didnn't expect anyone to be up this early. They are all .GIFs
Thanks,
Randy

..and if you click the "images" tab in google, it will search and display images it finds.

-craig

Wow thanks Craig! I never noticed that.
Randy

OK already... I downloaded the trial and here is what you do:

1.Double click on the image to Select it. I picked the monk.

2. Select graphic application that supports 32 bit images with a transparency mask

3. Click next, to size, crop, etc..

4. Now add a overlay track in Vegas above the video. If you picked white as the background color for now that will block your video.

5. Drop in the Choma Keyer filter on the image (monk)

6. Use eyedropper on the white background. It should become transparent with only the monk now over the video. The santa in you case.

7. Drop in the PluginPac 3D LE to size, move and animinate with keyframes.

One problem, in this example I made white transparent, so any white area in the video would bleed through of course, so pick a background color that isn't in the video. I saw that option when I first loaded the application, its in there somewhere.

Sorry BillyBoy but what trial did you download?
Thanks,
Randy

There were two on the page mentioned. I got both. One is just extra images. I guess that's where the monk was.

Hi Randy,

Sorry I dissapeared this morning, I had to bolt.

If you're still cooking the vid, .GIFs open in my Vegas with a premultiplied alpha selected.

You might also try converting them to PNG or TGA (and retain the alpha), to see if that works.


HTH, MPH

Thanks guys,
I got my Santa flying around with no background (and met my deadline...phew).
Thanks again,
Randy