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One other question if I may…..
I am trying to do a watermark in procoder but am a bit confused. Procoder has a bitmap keying option, so as far as creating an image with a blue background and then keying out the background, that is not a problem. However, how do you make the image that is left a watermark? In other words make it transparent?
It says it supports an alpha channel, but I didn’t think bitmaps supported alpha channels? When I create one in after effects or photoshop it doesn’t have an alpha channel.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Judge S.
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Just make a TIFF with an alpha. That should work.
Photoshop’s help is pretty comprehensive.
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Negative. It says “this file format is not supported.”
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Try saving as Targa.
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No dice. I did a 32 bit targa in photoshop. ProCoder did allow me to import it and did recognize it as an image with an alpha channel. (It wouldn’t allow a tiff.) However, the watermark didn’t show up at all. Called tech support. They were clueless.
Very frustrating considering the ability to add a “watermark” was one of the main reasons I shelled out the $450.
Anything I am missing here?
Judge S.
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Oh, and did I mention the classic response from tech support? When I mentioned that I couldn’t get the watermark feature, his suggestions was “That is something you should do to your video in your video editing program.” If I wanted to do that, why the heck would I buy ProCoder?!?!?! Then, when I said that bitmaps don’t do alphas, he said, “Use a JPEG.” Then I said, JPEG’s don’t do Alpha’s he said, “Use a PDF.” A PDF?!?!?!?!?!?!
I think I am going to have to get BH to give me a refund. Does Cleaner do REAL watermarks?
thx!
Judge
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For what it’s worth, I’ve been able to do watermarks in ProCoder just fine. So it does work. I can’t remember if it was a chroma-keyed or alpha channeled one.
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