How do you make a video with a transparent background?

[Holly O’neil]

Well, we had success this way. Open the video from the chroma keyer movie icon on the video. It is the little icon on the bottom right. It opens up all kinds of options. It’s the Video Event FX button. Then select the Chroma Keyer option. Then use the eydropper tool to take away green (or whatever color) background. You can even do this on the preview screen. Then to adjust the thresholds appropriately go ahead and place some video underneath the chroma key video to move thresholds till you get the best look. Then go ahead and delete that video. Then render as: Video for Windows AVI, use default template- uncompressed, then choose custom setting and then choose video rendering quallity best, then select the Video settings button and set at 720×480, field order none (progressive scan) and make sure render alpha channel (uncompressed window formats only) and create an OpenDML are checked. Then render. Voila! Thanks Douglas Spotted Eagle, Holly O’Neil

[Jim Bannon]

This topic is so well covered here for Sony users, I hesitate to ask if anyone can refer me to a solution using Cyberlink’s Power Director 9. (I have searched and posted in their forum)

I was led to this forum and appreciate the excellent dialog.

Thanx in advance for any “General Assistance” that might help.

[Elsie Morgan]

Hi,

I tried everything you showed here but when I use dropper, i get rid of color leaving me a black background.

I appeared to ahve followed the rest of your directions but
when I rendered it and tried it in my website, it came up with the black background not a transparent one.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

EHM

[Elsie Morgan]

Hi,
Replied to wrong link. Wanted it to go to you.

I tried everything you showed here but when I use dropper, i get rid of color leaving me a black background.

I appeared to ahve followed the rest of your directions but
when I rendered it and tried it in my website, it came up with the black background not a transparent one.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

EHM

[Mike Kujbida]

Did you render it as uncompressed AVI?

[Elsie Morgan]

Yes, I rendered it as uncompressed avi.
when you remove the background, should it just show black in the view screen?

It ends up rendering as the same black background as when I removed the color.

[Mike Kujbida]

Place something under it to make sure that it is indeed transparent.

[Elsie Morgan]

It does not seem to become transparent.
I put a screen behind it and it does not show through when I remoe the color.
Suggestions?

Thank you for your help.

[Mike Kujbida]

If you can, pleas post a high res screen shot from your preview window (set it to Best/Full and save as PNG) so that we can experiment and see where you’re going wrong.

[Elsie Morgan]

here it is… if it attached.