resizing video or making transparency
 

I have a photo of a movie theatre screen (.png). I want video to play within the screen window.

Is there a way to make an area of the screen in the photo transparent within vegas?

I have used pan and crop and overlayed video in the past for this kind of thing, but the widescreen size of this screen makes it hard with 4:3 video.

You can make a transparent area many ways. If the screen is stationary, probably the BEST option would be to turn on Bezier masking in Pan/Crop.

Yes it is stationary, and while I knew I could take the image into Fireworks (or Photoshop) etc, I wanted to see if it could be done in Vegas.

Thank you very much Edward...I'm anxious to try the bezier tool, I know nothing about it.


Edward, or anyone, is there a minimum or ideal resolution for photos used in Vegas?

Generally speaking, the same size as your video. For standard SD NTSC, that would be 720x480 but taking into account square vs non-square pixels, that's 655x480 for the minimum size if you don't need to zoom in.

Thank you!