Hey, I'm planning on making a little movie for my classmates, something of a commemoration of all the years we've been together as a class. And I need to know a few things that will really help me when editing a movie.
I've tested a lot of software ranging from the free one Windows Movie Maker, through more pro such as the one from Adobe, to Sony Vegas, which I find the best among them. I want to know these things:
1) When I have a graphic, some picture. Let's say a bottle. I want to paste only the bottle to the movie, but when I save it in photoshop and upload it to Vegas the background of the picture is also there. How do I make the background transparent leaving only the object?
2) What setting should I choose for rendering to not end up with a +5gb file? All those funny settings are confusing. If my movie will last, let's say 10 minutes, what setting should I choose so that it won't have more than 100-200mb, but still have decent quality? Is there any universal setting that is the best to choose when rendering such movies? And If I'll have to upload it to youtube I might have to make it even smaller...
3) This question is probably a long shot, but I'd like to know how does the green screen technique works, or whatever it's called. What I'm getting at is if I have a set, where the actor is standing in front of a green screen, how do I change the green screen into some sort of a scenery (like some background picture, or maybe something moving, as in a movie clip), leaving the actor visible in the foreground. I really have no idea how it works and I always wanted to figure this out. Any links would be helpful.
I've been playing with editing software for not very long and even though I get my way around these problems, knowing them would make my life so much easier.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Keran
I've tested a lot of software ranging from the free one Windows Movie Maker, through more pro such as the one from Adobe, to Sony Vegas, which I find the best among them. I want to know these things:
1) When I have a graphic, some picture. Let's say a bottle. I want to paste only the bottle to the movie, but when I save it in photoshop and upload it to Vegas the background of the picture is also there. How do I make the background transparent leaving only the object?
2) What setting should I choose for rendering to not end up with a +5gb file? All those funny settings are confusing. If my movie will last, let's say 10 minutes, what setting should I choose so that it won't have more than 100-200mb, but still have decent quality? Is there any universal setting that is the best to choose when rendering such movies? And If I'll have to upload it to youtube I might have to make it even smaller...
3) This question is probably a long shot, but I'd like to know how does the green screen technique works, or whatever it's called. What I'm getting at is if I have a set, where the actor is standing in front of a green screen, how do I change the green screen into some sort of a scenery (like some background picture, or maybe something moving, as in a movie clip), leaving the actor visible in the foreground. I really have no idea how it works and I always wanted to figure this out. Any links would be helpful.
I've been playing with editing software for not very long and even though I get my way around these problems, knowing them would make my life so much easier.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Keran
My images now have transparent background, I'm saving the movie in a decent quality with not so big size and I learned this whole matte technique (it's amazingly easy ;o ). I'm gonna poke around more with all those things now ;]
