Why not just add a second Chromakeying filter in the plugin chain? I do this all the time for fine tuning.

You'd be better off removing ALL of the chroma keys, setting up the parent/child relationship, apply multiply (mask) to the parent track, and apply the mask effect to the clip. This is the technique used in the newsletter.

A very easy way would be to:

Key out just the white text and place above your noise texture and then render out just that clip creating a black background with the text "noise" that you want.

Then take that rendered clip and put it over your video and key out the black.

This will work and is very simple as long as the noise/texture that you want in the lettering does not contain any blackl

Thanks for the help. The newsletter idea worked. Of course, I screwed up and realized that after rendering for 3 hours overnight that the multiply composition setting had turned my entire project(other than the title screens) black! Oops. Stupid. Should have used a new track for this stuff instead of doing it on my main video track.

I quick-fixed this to get it started rendering by putting a white sold generated event from the beginning to end on that child track, so it's basically multiplying the whole project by white. I BELIEVE this produces an unchanged version of the original image, like multiplying a number by 1. Is this true? Are there some round off errors that might result in slight degradatiaon of quality, or should this produce a perfect replica of the original? Although, this is probably going to kill my render time. I'll fix it to separate tracks later I guess.

I assume there's no way to change a track's composition mode(like from multiply to alpha) halfway through, like via keyframes?

Also, can anyone explain the way composition behaves to me a little better. The article was very clear on how to do that effect, but I didn't get a sense of what I was really doing and how to apply that knowledge to create something different. I understand the different composition modes, but I don't understand the relationship of all the different clips to each other. If I have a parent and a child and another video track underneath those, I have 4 separate composition settings to play with(the child's, the parent's normal setting, the parents "parent setting" over on the left, and the final track's setting). Which setting affects what?

Thanks to anyone taking the time to enlighten a newbie.