Solved Transparency

Help. Can anybody come to my assistance please? I wish to reduce the transparency of a clip and seem unable to find a setting. All I have done is drag a line down from the top of the clip, is that all there is to it? Cheers John

Yes - that is what you do for individual clips.

If you wanted more fine control for an entire Video Track (everything on a single video track), you could turn on the Composite Level Envelope Tool.
This allows the creating of key-frame points on the envelope, so you can bend the line and create fades.
To activate, right-click a blank area of Video Track, go to Insert/Remove Envelope - Composite Level

Thanks Derek, it was just single short clip, have made a note of your other method for future record. Seasons Greetings to you from across the ditch. Cheers John

Merry Christmas

Hi Derek. The clip in question was one of snowflakes that I wished to overlay on top of a still image. The advice given on the download was to set the mode of the clip to screen in my video editor, but i could not find such a command in MSPS14 therefore I used the transparency. I use an image editing program where I can set several modes for a layer. Is this sort of function not available in MSPS14 or the pro version? Cheers John

To make a .png transparent image work inside a video project, you need to turn ON the Alpha channel.
Right-click on the snowflake image and select Properties.
Set to Premultiplied
For this to work, you will have to un-do the "transparency" settings you changed - set back to 100%.