How do I make transparent backgrounds in Title Designer -- PDR13 SOLVED!!!

goodguy309

Newbie Joined: Aug 18, 2015 09:03 Messages: 41 Offline

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Apr 18, 2016 20:40

I know how to put animated text and an image in Title Designer.

How do I make the BACKGROUND transparent?

I want to save the animated text and image as a template title file for use in my main video edit where I can then place the file anywhere over my video without blocking the whole frame.

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Longedge

Senior Contributor Joined: Apr 28, 2011 15:38 Messages: 1504 Offline

Apr 19, 2016 03:39

I'm not sure I follow - if you create a title from scratch then the title background is transparent i.e. there isn't anything there.

p.s. If you want to animate a background below the title what I would do is insert it between the footage and the title as a separate video track and keyframe it as required.

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CS2014

Senior Contributor Location: USA-Eastern Time Zone Joined: Sep 16, 2014 16:44 Messages: 629 Offline

Apr 19, 2016 08:31

Like Longedge says, isn't the background oin a title page already transparent? If it is not, don't we have to 'put something there' (like a color board or something) for it to NOT be transparent?

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Longedge

Senior Contributor Joined: Apr 28, 2011 15:38 Messages: 1504 Offline

Apr 19, 2016 08:52

I'm trying to imagine what you want to achieve. The attached clip has 3 components:-

video

still image

title.

Filename	Produce.mp4	Download
Description	Example
Filesize	51266 Kbytes
Downloaded:	219 time(s)

goodguy309

Newbie Joined: Aug 18, 2015 09:03 Messages: 41 Offline

Apr 19, 2016 09:13

I tried to overcomplicate the Title designer for no apparent reason!

I did what was suggested and it works just fine.

Thanks to all for the answers.

CS2014

Senior Contributor Location: USA-Eastern Time Zone Joined: Sep 16, 2014 16:44 Messages: 629 Offline

Apr 19, 2016 09:45

Glad you worked it out.

Could you go back to your first post in this thread and edit the subject line - maybe add something like 'PD - (and whatever version you are using 12 - 13- 14) - and then SOLVED' ... that would be great!

Thanks

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