hi everyone, thanks for taking the time to read this. my problem is i have imported my home footage of my son playing in a field and he wants me to put a helicopter hovering above him ( which i have ) but i would like to be able to remove the imported avi home video while rendering my basic animation. is there anyway i can do this? sounds rather silly, but i will be doing further work on it, and adding special effects, so i do have my reasons.....

thanks in advance

After working out whatever motion you want with the video footage in place, remove it and select a color (green is common) for the background - render, save, then import into whatever video editor you use and combine the two there.

is also possible to save series of tiffs with alpha channel with nothing behind them, then concatenate, then that is layer 0 above layer 1 (home video clip), depending on video editor.

Quote - After working out whatever motion you want with the video footage in place, remove it and select a color (green is common) for the background - render, save, then import into whatever video editor you use and combine the two there.

 

 

thanks for the reply and this is exactly my problem - how do i remove the imported video and keep my animation in place......

Put the background on a square prop, scaled to fit. Then when your copter is animated , delete the prop square.