Create transparency with a keying effect – Adobe Premiere Elements 8 User Manual
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Applying effects
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Videomerge effect inverted
A. Foreground clip B. Background clip D. Combined clips
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Create transparency with a keying effect
To create transparency wherever a specific color occurs in a clip, apply a color-based keying effect. These effects are
commonly used to remove a colored background.
1 In the Tasks panel, click Edit, and then click Effects.
2 Choose a Keying effect (or Chroma, Blue Screen, Green Screen, or Non Red).
3 Drag the effect to a clip in the Timeline or Sceneline.
4 (Optional) Click the Edit Effects button at the bottom of the Tasks panel to open the Properties view, and expand
the effect name to view and edit the effect’s options.
Replacing a background color with another image
A. Upper clip B. Blue Screen automatically makes the background transparent C. Lower clip D. Combined clips
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Create transparency with the Track Matte Key effect
1 If you haven’t already done so, add the matte file to the project: Click Organize in the Tasks panel, and then click
Get Media. Navigate to the matte file, and click Open. The matte file should preferably contain only a single shape
(for example, a star or a flower).
2 Add a background clip to a track in the Timeline.
3 Add the clip you want to superimpose over the background clip to any track higher than the background clip. This
is the clip revealed by the track matte.
4 On a third track, add the clip that serves as the matte. (If you need to add a third track, drag the matte to an empty
area in the Timeline above the highest video track; a new track is automatically created.)
5 In the Effects view, expand the Video Effects folder and the Keying category folder, and drag the Track Matte Key
effect to the superimposed clip (the clip above the background clip).
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