[Ryan Osika]

It’s a brand new version. Thanks. By the way, AVID has sent me a dongle updater software. I’m wondering if the old version of AVID I had on my computer is messing up the dongle software. Hopefully this will fix it. Thanks.

[Ryan Osika]

Carl,

Because it’s an academic version, I don’t think they offer support over the phone. I tried calling them and when I entered my system ID, the automated voice told me my service has expired.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,
Ryan

[Ryan Osika]

Excellent! Thanks for all the great info. I’m going to look into all those programs. At this point, I may simply purchase the Avid Xpress Pro software and then build from there. I really appreciate all the great input though.

Ryan

[Ryan Osika]

How important or useful is that third party software? Thanks so much.

Ryan

[Ryan Osika]

Any specific nvidia cards you would recommend? Thanks very much.

Ryan

[Ryan Osika]

I actually have many different layers animated using keyframes and zaxwerks 3D. If I leave the background blank, meaning no solid color in the background and I render the timeline out as an animation, will I then be able to lay that animation over video in an editing program and see the video where the blank background once was? I may just try that and see, but does what I’m saying make sense. Thank you very much for your help and your patience.

Ryan

[Ryan Osika]

The reason I don’t think the square mask won’t work is that at one point, a graphic flies across the entire screen. Thus, I would like, if possible, to bring the animation into my editing program and have the letter box and graphics animate over my video. Again, thanks so much.

Ryan

[Ryan Osika]

For example, I have created some letterbox graphics, thin strips that line the top and bottom of the screen. I want to output the letterbox so that I can bring it into an editing program and lay it over video. What I meant by the black layer is the space between the upper and lower graphic strips that form the letterbox. Right now, they are only a black solid. That black solid is where I hope to see the video once I bring it into an editing program. So, how do I make that black solid layer transparant? Does that make sense? Thanks again.

Ryan

[Ryan Osika]

Okay, your instruction make a lot of sense. But I have an even simpler question. What I have done in After Effects is create a letterbox underneath which I’d like to add video. Below the “letterbox” layers, I’ve created a solid that is just black — that’s where I want to the video to go. How do I specify that that black layer should be an alpha channel rather than a solid black. Thanks very much for your help.

Ryan

[Ryan Osika]

Excellent! Thanks so much for the detailed instructions. I’m going to give it a shot.