overlay video on cs3

[Jason Harris]

TIm alan

i have imported the psd as a sequence, just so i dont waste time am i supposed to RECREATE the whole animation part in the ppro timeline

I can get all the layers on the timeline however the animation is not there,

im in the process of trying to move the layers around, but the work is slow as for some reason ppro made everything cut off to the left, so i have to move the graphics over

thanks

[George Socka]

You need to figure out why your PPro wont import QT. Best suggestion is to download latest QT from Apple, because all versions of PPro import and export QT. Then, use your animation with alpha QT right on the timeline.

Never use gif.

If you cant get QT to work, export from Photoshop/Image Ready as a sequence of Photoshop files , by themselves, in one new folder. The transparency is preserved, and you import the whole sequence as one – click the little checkmark on the bottom of the import.

George Socka
BeachDigital
http://www.beachdigital.com

[Jason Harris]

ok everyone

first THANKS for all the help, nice to know so many people are helpful out here

2nd i got QT to work (QT was not installed on the machine beforehand lol)

What i did was

1. made a quicktime (highest resolution possible) movie output of the TRANSPARENT lower third empty of all titleing, but containing the animation

2. imported this movie into ppro,

3. added the live feed video over this imported transaprent video

4. created TWO title templates, one with time/date, story title, and place title, and one other for live reporter names

all in all it worked as you can see at

163_ncrlivecowanaftermathjuly162009.flv.zip

a couple of things i didnt like was, no matter how well i raised the output video it didnt have clean sharp lines to the lower third, even after i remove the deinterlace, so if anyone has another take on that im all ears,

I noticed when i imported the MOV file it DID NOT line up on the program panel, im not sure why but it was severely clipped to the left of the live, so bad it didnt even show that part, and of course the final rendered flash movie clipped a tiny bit as well, thoughts on that

let me know how we did, it remains to be seen whether this will be used as the long term solution for our lower thirds, but i like the way the mov file overlayed the video out of photoshop!