TIF File of a logo--using it in Premiere how I'd like it to be

[Hopchic]

I'm doing a project for the company I work for and need help. I have imported the company logo as a tif file; it has black lettering on a white background. I would like for the logo to appear as the black logo but without the white background--superimposed on top off a graphic. I would like the white background to stay gone even when using the motion option on the logo. I had a similar problem with photographs earlier in the week, which was solved here, but that solution doesn't work on the logo. Any suggestions?

 

[WizyWyg]

Do you have a graphics program like Photoshop?

if so, open the file in photoshop, and delete teh white background from the logo. Save it as a psd file. In Premiere, import it in, and do not flatten. What you have done is made the logo on a transparent background.

 

[Hopchic]

I do have Photoshop 4.0 but honestly I can't seem to get my mind around it--I've "learned" it several times and then forget. What tool would I use to delete the white background?

 

[Pixelchik]

I don't remember whether Photoshop 4 has layers, but if it doesn't you can just start a new file with a transparent background and with the correct aspect ratio for your Premiere project. Then open your logo, select it (without it's background) and either drag it into the new page or copy and paste it into that page. Now save it as a psd file and import into Premiere and your timeline on your V2 layer. I hope that makes sense to you.

You can use the Magic Wand tool to select your white background to delete it from your logo.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

You can also add an alpha channel to the image. Do a select-by-color of the white, then fill that selection on the alpha channel with black. Invert the selection and fill the inverse with white.

When an image has an alpha channel, black is transparent and white is opaque.

Cheers,


Edward

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[WizyWyg]

Use the magic wand with a sensitivity of 0. Select the white part, press delete, voila, transparent bg. FILE SAVE AS > whatever.psd

I haven't used PS 4.0 since 1998. So Im dont remember much about it. Im on PS 7 now.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Note that the magic wand will only pick up contiguous pieces. If you have "islands" you want to erase, you can either use repeated applications of the magic wand, or a select-by-color.

Cheers,

Edward

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[Akribie]

Might be easier to use chroma or luminance transparencies in Premiere on the original image.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Oh yeah, totally. There are oodles of ways to do this. My project worked better with alpha channel masks because I was working with grayscale and there were patches of my "grayscreen" in the active art region (which made every black-to-white or white-to-black region become ringed with transparency if I tried chromakeying it). Looked really dumb until I figured out to make alpha channel masks.

Cheers,


Edward

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[Hopchic]

Well, even using the luminance or alpha channel options the background still shows up, even if barely--that is, I can still make out the outline of the square, when I really just want to see the logo! So tell me more about this alpha channel mask.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Hopchic,

Look at

http://www.petting-zoo.org/Dreamquest_Animation.html

This is one way of making a pict file with an alpha channel mask.

In my instructions, I ask people to use patches of #888888 to act as a "grayscreen" because then they can use the choose-by-color to build their masks, but really, it's not necessary. Just the mask.

Where the mask is white, you'll see image in Premiere. Where the mask is black, it'll be totally transparent.

When you have a file with an alpha channel, import it to Premiere and place it on the timeline. Right-click on it and choose video >> transparency. Select Alpha Channel Mask. There should be a little window that shows you an example of the first frame and how the transparency will manifest.

Let me know how it comes out!

Cheers,


Edward

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