On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Raffaella Traniello < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Richard! > > > On 01/26/2012 01:00 PM, Richard Pickett wrote: > >> as soon as I add another video track and put the transparent .png >> overlay in, when the video plays it has frames where the overlay is >> displayed but instead of transparent it's "black" background. >> > > Just for a start I'd check if you have the alpha channel enabled. > Go to Settings->Format and make sure your selected colour model is "YUVA". Even with that set, I still get the "strobing" affect of there being frames of only the overlay, and the "transparent background" is black, then back to frames where it is overlaid correctly. > Is there a *good* web page/site out there that covers most of these >> type of issues, and how to work around them? >> > > If by *good* website you mean a site that has the solution to your own > problems in the home page, then the answer is > "no, unless you create it". > "good" as in complete. > I created my own, based on 5 years of daily work with Cinelerra and on > teaching Cinelerra to newbies as young as 9. > > If you are not scared of searching info inside websites you can find a lot > of help in blogs and tutorials: > http://cinelerra.org/docs.php I'll roll through. I typically do screen recording in linux and just need to clean the video when I'm done (chop the ends and maybe overlay to "hide" some personal info that gets captured during the video, like my login name / email / etc. Any chance there's a "howto" for noobs on just those basics? (I'll check your site) All I want to do is put a couple overlays on this video. does it >> really have to be this hard? >> > > Cinelerra is powerful. > Her appearance is daunting. > She is not for the faint of heart. > I'll quote HiTech RedNeck: "Cinelerra is like the cockpit of a jet rather > than the dashboard of a car". > > For a task as simple as putting a couple overlays I'd recommend you use > something simpler, like Avidemux. > ...unless you want to use this task as a pretext to get acquainted with > Cinelerra, as an investment for future use... > Yeah, I can see the investment potential. I like the special effects you can add. I typically switch between screens during my screen recording, so having really top-notch transitions will be a big plus. Thanks for all your help and suggestions! > Good luck! > > Ciao > > Raffaella > > ______________________________**_________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/**mailman/skolelinux.no/**listinfo/cinelerra<https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra> >
