Pan/Crop Clip on Transparent background?

Grazie wrote on 6/30/2003, 3:08 AM
Apologies if this has been done to death before . . .

Okay - I've pan/crop a clip - I've made it smaller and have it creep left to right - done. Now I want to make the background, outside of this clip, white or transparent, I've got black/transparent. I've got other text apprearing behind it, and slide down past it. But I want the area around the clip "sitting" on a "white" background - not black. - This must be a very simple thing to do - just can't get it.

Grazie

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TorS wrote on 6/30/2003, 4:15 AM
A white solid on the track below should do it.
Tor
Grazie wrote on 6/30/2003, 4:58 AM
Tors! ***** Star-Of-The-Day * * * * *

Thank you,

Grazie
TorS wrote on 7/1/2003, 3:06 PM
Actually, thank you
I got the idea from you and used it on the video currently up on Chienworks site. Made the background grey though. Didn't want to rip you off completely.
Tor
Grazie wrote on 7/1/2003, 4:04 PM
....eerrrmmm . . . "Senior Moment" - becoming all too frequent. Now where did I put my keyboard - I knew it was around here some place? I was just using it, to type to TorS - I'll just look under this slab of plas................................................
TorS wrote on 7/1/2003, 4:40 PM
Not sure I follow. But someone who has an account with my isp is suffering a heavy DOS attack (=denial of service) making "my" internet rather useless. So I'll just call it a day.
Tor
tbanchie wrote on 8/3/2003, 2:06 AM
I want to do the same thing - but instead of white - I want transparent! I've got another thread asking how to do this - this is the same issue - it's just I need transparent.
jldpc wrote on 8/3/2003, 2:23 AM
How about go to help in VV4 and search Alpha. Then review the track tranparency settings that may make it work for you. But bear in mind you need to use more than one video track to achieve the results you want.

On the other hand the task is trivial in photoshop for any still you can imagine. Just crop out all or part of the image, copy and paste it into another frame that is set to be a tranparency (background). Save it as a*.png, and move it into the VV video track. You will see a lot or alittle of transparency on the border depending on how you sized the copied image onto what size transparent backround. Then you can play all day with the track motion or pan and crop of the image against your lower track.