Cpbowles

thanks.

I have a voice talent doing an intro video in front of a clean blue screen. It's a .mov video that's loaded onto Track 1, the main video. I overlayed a .jpg image (have tried both a light background image and a dark background image) with no other image editing onto Track 2. I added the green screen effect on the CLIP on Track 1, eye-dropped the very uniform blue background color (no blue in the talent's image), and adjusted the Fading and Threshold sliders to get rid of the background and eliminate blue edges around the talent's hairline. When I play that Clip, it looks fine. I see an alpha-channel background in the Clip Preview. I used Auto base, but also tried Color and Brightness options. Color and Auto work the same. If I solo Track 1 and watch the Sequence Preview, I see a full black background instead of an alpha channel, but the talent stands out from it and it looks okay. But when I combine the video on Track 1 and the stretched jpg image on Track 2 in Sequence Preview, I only see the jpg image. I hear audio from the video, but the talent image does not show up. I adjusted the Threshold/Fading controls while playing through the sequence, and even adjusted opacity in the jpg image track, which makes the talent show up slightly, BUT pastes the new background on top of the talent image. So, 1. Is it true that the new background image is overlayed on a track above the primary video? 2. Is the feature supposed to superimpose the primary video track 1 image, without its blue color background, on top of the overlayed track image? 3. Have I missed something in the directions? I've looked at the other explanations and watched several descriptions, but it's not working. Any ideas? Thanks, Charlie