A little clarification will help a lot. I'd love to help, but I'm having trouble visualizing what you are trying to do. First, by sloppy borders, do you mean that you created irregular border on the three photos with the edges transparent and saved as PSD with the images as a layer but no background...

Welcome Kenny!

You can learn a lot lurking in the shadows, but you'll learn even more coming out into the light and asking questions and helping others figure out answers to their questions. Glad to have you in the group.

Steve, You can use Track Matte Key to embed your video into the still image. Let's say you place your video on track 2 in the timelime, place your base image on track 3, and your "overlay" on track 4. Place the track matte key effect on the base image in track 3 and set the properties for ...

I hope by upgrading, you meant add a 2nd disk drive and not just change the 320gb to 500gb. I second Jack's 2GB RAM recommendation. That's what I currently have and find it adequate even when I have Photoshop, Bridge, and Premiere open at the same time. You'll love the Q6600 quad processor. It's gre...

Premiere Elements contains a built-in universal counting leader which can be customized. From the available media bin, select the "new" button and then "Universal Counting Leader...".

Is DV-AVI actually the binary video data exactly as it is stored on the mini-DV tape? Or is there some compression that occurs on it when it's gathered off the camcorder and put on the PC? All digital video uses compression. DV-AVI uses an intraframe compression in which each frame is individually ...

Effects can enhance the story or they can detract from it. I trust the judges to know the difference. And, I have to disagree with the idea that it's all about the effects. Without an idea and a story, you could use all the effects in the world and not win. I also don't feel having software like Aft...

We must have been posting awfully close together. I've never seen a post vanish, but I have often submitted only to find that someone had posted just prior. I like that it keeps the text so that I can make changes in response to the new post if necessary. Ron, if there is any way to look into what h...

Premiere Elements doesn't need to convert to DV-AVI before transcoding. Premiere and Premiere Elements use the concept of importer plugins to handle the job of obtaining frames from a file and compiler plugins to write frames to a file after they are processed by Premiere. Frames are processed on de...

I was hoping there might be a website where I could upload a panorama and have it enlarged to a 24 or 36" width There are a number of businesses that will do that. If you do a Google search with the terms panorama prints and you'll find a number right up at the start of the results list. I can...

so.......you can put a video file in the audio segment? or is there a way to extract the audio from the video - then put the audio file where I want it................. You put the video on another video track and it's audio will appear on an audio track. Right click on the video in the timeline an...

where is the soft blur option and the flicker removal option. Blur effects are in the Video Effects > Blur and Sharpen category. when it plays on the tv it is a more jerky-like motion to it That's not a flicker problem. That sounds more like a reverse field dominance problem. Have you tried right c...

I'd also like to extend Season's Greetings to Muvipix members of all faiths. I wish you all the very best in the coming year!

As to music, I personally look forward to hearing Handel's Messiah. This time of year wouldn't be the same without it.

Someone suggested using a deflicker option on the pictures. When do you know you need this and where do I find it? Flicker affects horizontal details in interlaced video. Basically, thin horizontal lines can flicker because a thin line in one field of an interlaced frame may be absent in the other ...

I'm not sure what a step wedge is? See this: http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=55 That tutorial talks about using a step wedge in photoshop. But, you can make or buy hard copy step wedges which you can include in an image when you photograph it. A step wedge can tell you a lot about wh...