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I want 2 ask something:
How 2 make a transparent background 2 a camera video???
In moho or in another program???
Pleaze answer me soon i need it fastttt....
Cya and hello 2 evreybody....

13 YEARS OLD ANIMATOR



(my 1st topic.. )

We need a little bit more information in order to help. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Do you want to have a background live-action video and then put moho animation in front of it? Or something else entirely?

I wanna make a MOHO background, And in front of it a camera video, but i want to make the VIDEO background (Let's say, a white wall) Disappear, that u c only the character i pictured.
Hop u understand me (with my poor english )

That is difficult in Moho.

You can do it with masking, look in the tutorials but that will not be that easy, depending on your video.

Or you can create your animation in Moho, export to video and overlay the video with KEYING in a video editor (Premiere, EditStudio) or compositing program (After Effects, MainVision). But that would be better with a greenscreen but you could try a LUMAKEY.

Or you could make the video background transparent in a video editing/compositing program and save that as a Quicktime video WITH transparency.

There is no easy solution, if the foreground is not moving too much you could try masking in Moho but well...good luck...Putting Moho animation on top of video, that's a LOT easier!

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

So how can i make a transparent QuickTime movie?

To do it in a video editing package I can't help there, you need to find out somewhere else I'm afraid, but I'll tell you how it works in Moho and you can think from there. When you export to a video file and select Quicktime and in the setting select "Millions+" it renders the video with an ALPHA sequence, that's a seperate invisible layer with transparency information. If you import that Quicktime file it will have transparency embedded in programs that support that.

Just to visualise try the following:
- New project
- draw something on the vector layer, just a filled shape
- Make it move
- Render as Quicktime/Millions+ settings, compression "none" to keep it simple.
- New project
- Add an image file, any image file
- Add another image layer but this time import your Quicktime file
- Now you should see the shape over the image file but the solid background has disappeared. That's basically what Alpha information does. Now you know what you need and you're on your own...

Good luck,

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

So, does anybody knows any program..???

13YearsOldAnimator wrote: How 2 make a transparent background 2 a camera video???

Are you wanting to make a "green screen" type video?
Like how they made Star Wars - where the actors are filmed acting in front of a green screen?
And then you add the background where the background is green (your transparent background)?

If so, you need a different program than Moho.
You need a video editing program like Premier or After Effects or other type video editing program.

Moho is a cartoon animation program - not a video editing program.
Go here for samples of things one can do with Moho:
http://www.lostmarble.com/moho/gallery/
Click on the links on the page.

It's fine - thanx evreybody 4 d help!
I'm using Flash MX 2 export quicktime streams with alpha channels.
I'm usin moho becuz it's the best animating program!
Cya!

don't give up yet
you have many years to learn your craft, and like most of us, you always find you need to educate yourself more and more.
afterall the more you know, the more you realise the less you know!!
keep it up, you ll find a way

jay b