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Can Vegas & DVA do this?
I want to have a DVDA menu that is a video of a small, clear water river. I want to put in a still frame(s) that is transparent so it looks kinda like a ghost in the water. I have not found a way to do this. I tried setting the still as a “mask” in DVDA. With “intensity” turned on this looks like what I want. But when previewed or burned that doesn’t work. Any Ideas?
Michael -
7 Replies
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Do it in Vegas. Get it looking the way you want and render it out to DV-AVI. Now use THAT for the menu.
Edward Troxel
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I do not see a way to do it. I can have a track with hte video and a track with the stills but how do I make the stills transparent merged with hte video?
Michael -
I’m not exactly sure what effect you’re after. I’m guessing you would start by varying the opacity?
Generally speaking, I would make whatever effects I wanted in the video in Vegas and then import that into DVDA for the menu. You can add “empty buttons” to use as links even if you put the link image or text into the background video.
Edward Troxel
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try mucking around with the blending modes
eg Screen, overlay etc, in the track headerstill in top track
water in lower trackmight even find displacement map works well.
track 1: still
track 2: water
track 3: same water againtrack 1 has displacement map with Track 2 as child
something like that – just talking off the top of my head
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Thanks for the replies.
I did find that simply varying the opacity gave me what I was looking for. Looks like image is floating above the bottom of the stream.
Michael -
You could also use height mapping to make the still look like it is riding the ripples in the water.
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