Ian Briscoe
January 11th, 2007, 03:25 PM
Hi all
On the menu page I want a movie to play in the background on top of one of the DVDA supplied backgrounds. I've created and rendered to .avi in Vegas. I then Insert it as a graphic with a style of "Animation" in DVDA4. I can then resize it etc and that works great. But what I'd like to do is to put an offset shadow behind it to lift it off the page a little. But I can't work out how to do it!! I know i can do it in Vegas with track motion and 2D shadow and that gives m the effect I want - but if I then import that into DVDA I also get the black background from the Vegas frame - like this (http://www.bidly.co.uk/screenshot.jpg)
(Of course on a black background you can't actually see a black shadow.) I can't crop because the shadow makes it an irregular shape.
I guess what I really want is to render in Vegas but with the background invisible. Is this possible?
Thanx
Ian
On the menu page I want a movie to play in the background on top of one of the DVDA supplied backgrounds. I've created and rendered to .avi in Vegas. I then Insert it as a graphic with a style of "Animation" in DVDA4. I can then resize it etc and that works great. But what I'd like to do is to put an offset shadow behind it to lift it off the page a little. But I can't work out how to do it!! I know i can do it in Vegas with track motion and 2D shadow and that gives m the effect I want - but if I then import that into DVDA I also get the black background from the Vegas frame - like this (http://www.bidly.co.uk/screenshot.jpg)
(Of course on a black background you can't actually see a black shadow.) I can't crop because the shadow makes it an irregular shape.
I guess what I really want is to render in Vegas but with the background invisible. Is this possible?
Thanx
Ian