Wedding Essentials Primer

Wedding Essentials Vol 1 on DVD

 Wedding Essentials DVD product is made up of 2 DVDs.

DISC 1 contains two folders.

Animations AVI folder contains DV compressed AVI files that can be imported into your video editing software. Seamlessly looping backgrounds can be placed side by side in timeline as many times as you need them. You can not see where one starts and one ends.                                 

Animations QT folder contains DV compressed Quicktime files that can be imported into your video editing software. Seamlessly looping backgrounds can be placed side by side in timeline as many times as you need them. You can not see where one starts and one ends.                                

DISC 2 contains three folders.

Bonus Stills folder contains stills can be used as static backgrounds. Import them in your video editing software as a still.

Stills & Mattes folder contains stills and track mattes for compositing. The stills found in this folder can be used at the end of an animation for a hold frame. Or the middle of an animation (DaisyTrans) as a hold frame. Use the track mattes to combine with Targa sequence by the same name. See how to combine and layer different backgrounds and animations to make a completely new one by following the tutorials found below.

Compositing in Adobe Premiere      

Compositing in Adobe Premiere Pro      

Compositing in Final Cut Pro

Compositing in Vegas Video

TGA Overlays folder is where you’ll find the animations that are targa image sequences. We created these animations this way so they contain the alpha channel. Inside this folder you’ll see other folders. These folders contain the image sequences. Each image is 1 frame of video. See tutorials below on importing image sequences in different applications.                      

Importing image sequences in Adobe Premiere

Importing image sequences in Adobe Premiere Pro

Importing image sequences in Final Cut Pro

Importing image sequences in Vegas Video

The wedding album opening comes as two parts. The first part is a AVI or quicktime movie found the Animationss folder, and the second part that contains the alpha channel can be found in the TGA Overlays folder. Drop the two in the timeline next to each other and you’ll have the entire animation.

For software not covered on this page, please check your video editing software’s online help and use search words like “importing Quicktime”, “importing image sequence”, “setting alpha channel”, etc.

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