@Colorz @johnebaker

Hi John.

No need. Use the custom colours in the backgrounds section.

Ray.

Hallo @Colorz

Hier een aanvullend filmpje op de correcte antwoorden van @johnebaker en @CubeAce.

Succes,
Rob
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@CubeAce

Hi Ray

. . . . Use the custom colours in the backgrounds section . . . .

Agreed, that is an alternative method, however depending on the usage required it may not be appropriate eg animation of the object and coloured background, or something like this is not possible with the background design option

John EB

@johnebaker

Sorry, you have lost me on that one John.

Is there a tutorial that explains?

Ray.

@CubeAce

Hi Ray

The Background design option is full screen only, if you want a border around a resized object then an image has to be used as in the example I posted - this is the yellow border around the possum video clip in the centre.

This is an example where a grey image has been used to create a thin frame around the 3 video objects with animation of both.

HTH

John EB

@johnebaker

Hi John.

So you can't shrink or animate the bitmap image I created on a separate track using the custom colours option I used or link them?

Ray.

 

Hallo @Colorz

Hier een aanvullend filmpje op de correcte antwoorden van @johnebaker en @CubeAce.

Succes,
Rob
Moderator / Forumlid

Hallo @Colorz

Hier een aanvullend filmpje op de correcte antwoorden van @johnebaker en @CubeAce.

Succes,
Rob
Moderator / Forumlid

Ik vrees dat ik men achtergronden kwijt ben, ik dacht werkelijk dat ze deze hadden verplaatst..en ik maar zoeken lol

@Colorz

Hi

Which version of VPX are you using?

Assuming VPX 12, and you have installed all the Extra content, the image backgrounds etc. have been moved to the Templates tab as shown below

The solid colour images are no longer available, I create what I need in an image editing program and use these..

HTH

John EB

Ok that is my problem, you don't miss it until you look for it, so it's gone..how can this happen...

@CubeAce

Hi Ray

We may be talking at cross purposes here.

The 'Background design option is full screen only' I am referring to is the one you get on right click of a video or image object

and if you use colour, as @Colorz required, the background colour is not 'resizeable/moveable' ie is full screen only as shown below

In your example you are adding a separate image, this can also be done in the above right click method if you use the image option, it is the same as your method, a separate image is applied in either case and the image is editable as it is a separate object.

HTH

John EB

@Colorz

Hi

. . . . Ok that is my problem, you don't miss it until you look for it, so it's gone..how can this happen... . . . .

Possibly it is the removal of a duplicate way of doing a coloured background as I posted immediately above to @CubeAce.

John EB

@johnebaker

Hi John.

Thanks for the additional clarification. That makes sense and made me re-read the original question to understand your answer.

I did also notice that using the method I chose that the image used is only 76 x 76 pixels although enlarged to fit the screen. There are certainly a lot of odd things I've yet to understand.

Ray.

@johnebaker

Hi John,

What you show about the Background design option is completely correct, but I mean Image objects / background

• Go to Effects - View / Animation - Position / Size
• Click on track 1 and you can resize, rotate, etc ...
• Click on track 2 and you can now also resize, rotate, etc ...

See image

Groet, Rob

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Regards, Rob (from the Netherlands)

@Bol

Hi Rob

Welcome to the English speaking forum.

. . . . I find this topic very interesting, which is why I would like to share in your discussion. If you think I should withdraw . . .

No reason to withdraw at all, all contributions, discussion etc are welcome.

Regards

John EB
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Hi John, thank you for your positive response. Regards, Rob

Hi,

In MEP2021 Plus, under Templates, Image Objects, Test Images, I have the colour swatches. This was a new install and the dates of the files are all the same. I don't think that I copied them over from another version, but maybe I did. I didn't install to the default drive either.

Does no one else have these?

I also have them in VPX12.

John CB

Hi John and other forum members,

I have made a movie, so you can see that a background color also moves with an inserted movie.

Regards, Rob

@browj2

Hi John

. . . . Does no one else have these? . . . .

The solid colours are absent in VPX 12,

they are their in MEP 2021

John EB

@browj2

Hi John.

MEP 2021 has them but not VPX 11. MEP does not have the custom colour option though.

I wonder if I could just copy and paste the files across?

Ray.

@browj2

Hi John,

.....Does no one else have these?

Here they stand for Pro X12

Regards, Rob

@Bol

Hi Rob

Did you try the right click video, Background design, Background design, Color option as shown in the images in my comment here?

John EB

I'm getting more confused with VPX.

Right click a file you create with Custom Color and select Background Design. If Set as background is ticked untick it first.

You then get this.

Or this.

I notice only the Bitmap files don't show in the background effects section of MEP. So is it a bug?

Would using this help?

Ray.

@CubeAce

Hi Ray,

I'm lost. It looks like you have the colour swatches in VPX. If not, just copy them to the Videocontent folder:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\MAGIX\Common\Videocontent\Video Pro X\VideoEffects\BackgroundEffects\ColorFields

and the icons to the subfolder.

Check the translation_en.ini file and if not there and if the filenames are like mine, add:

[black]
name=Black

[white]
name=White

[red]
name=Red

[pink]
name=Magenta

[cyan]
name=Cyan

[green]
name=Green

[blue]
name=Blue

[yellow]
name=Yellow

I notice that you have the old ones with cryptic filenames, so you can use them and change the parts in brackets in the above ini file to be the cryptic filenames and they should show up as per my screenshot.

John CB