Hi:
I am new to this forum so hopefully I am doing this correctly.
I am a Powerdirector 365 user and I have two questions.
1) I am having issues loading MOV files with an Alpha channel. Some work just fine, some give me a message that the file is broken and some show up as an audio file Icon and don't work. I can run the files that say thay are broken through FFMPEG and turn them into a PNG/MOV and they will then work fine but I have no idea what is with the ones that show up as audio files.
2)
Can anyone explain the purpose of producing an animated PNG if it does not preserve the transparency.
I would like to create some video overlays that I can reuse. I realize I can create PIPs and that is fine but I would like to modify some of my own artwork to use as high res overlay animations with an alpha transparency using PNGs. Single PNGs load and work just fine but when I put them together with motion in Powerdirector and export them as an animated PNG any area that is background black I thought would be transparent just as it is on my display. If I put a backgrund behind my project it shows up but once produced it no longer has the transparency.
I can bring in an MOV with an alpha channel to get what I want but it requires using another video editor that allows exporting an MOV with alpha channel which is somewhat cumbersome and as stated above not very reliable.
Am I wrong in thinking an animated PNG is a series of individual PNGs. Since PNGs can have a transparency layer I don't understand why the animated PNG does not maintain the transparency. I know it is not an alpha channel like an MOV has but if each PNG has it's own transparency it should be possible I would think. I realize MOV is an Apple thing so I guess I understand why Powerdirector can not produce an MOV with an Alpha channel but does that apply to animated PNGs as well.
Yes I can use chroma keying but in many cases that is not practical due to the number of colors.
I have checked everywhere and there is to the best of my knowledge no way to tell Powerdirector to preserve the transparency nor is there any where to turn off the base background.
Can anyone tell me how to retain the transpareny or if it is not possible why I would use this way of pruducing an animation if it can't retain the transparency. Any help would be appreciated.