AVI as a background

[Elvis Deane]

What program are you exporting the AVI from? There are some specific settings I’d have to select in Vegas before exporting to pI, otherwise I’d get the same thing.

This is what you need to do specifically for Vegas, but maybe these settings will give you some clues.
In the Video tab, make sure the Video Format is set to Uncompressed. At the bottom, there should be two checkboxes, Render Alpha Channel, and Create an OpenDML (AVI version 2.0) compatible file. Make sure both of these are checked. If you render with them unchecked, the AVI loads up as a blank in pI.

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[Geoff Hodgson]

Elvis,

Thanks for very quick response. I was exporting from Flash and have now set the export parameters as ’32 bit colour/w/alpha’ unchecked ‘compress video’ and left checked ‘smooth’ It now imports into PI. Thank you very much indeed for your help.

Geoff

[Dennis Fassbaender]

You can use DV-compressed files, too. This is very great, because i ever thought DV-AVIs from my Camcorder can

[Geoff Hodgson]

Dennis,

Good to know that, will give a try

Geoff