Quote - Hi Don, well what I am saying is place the character in empty space and I guess set up a walk path. I tried that earlier but it just appears that my character is just walking in place in the straight ahead view, not advancing forward. Would this be a matter of adjusting camera?

I would create path, animate the prop using the path, make the bg a solid color and then of course save it in avi format. After that use an avi editor and blend it with another movie backdrop. But an example would be perhaps a person exiting out of a building and walking down a sidewalk until the go off the screen right to left etc.

This does not have to be honed to perfection yet, just to dabble. So I dont plan spending a bunch of money on pricey programs for a 5 second video :)

Ok I gotcha now.  In movie render settings you have an option to render and image sequence.  Use this and render to .png format with no background defined and you'll end up with just your character in your scene (transperent background).  A simple way to get your path right would be to load a single frame from your video into the back ground and match your character to that.  Then move the animation forward to your last frame (for a 3 second video at 30 fps that would be frame 91) Now you can see where your character needs to be at the paths end.  Create your path to match the background image, remove the background and render to an image sequence.

Don