Titles, Transparent Lower Thirds Graphics from Photoshop to ATEM
Photo Moment - March 19, 2021
To create accurate, transparent Title and Lower Thirds graphics with drop shadows and gradients for your ATEM Mini, ATEM Mini Pro, ATEM Mini Pro ISO, or any other ATEM switcher, exporting a PNG file is not enough! There's more to it than that, and the easy way requires Photoshop. Don't want to use Photoshop? Be sure to watch tip number 005!
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What this tip is about…
You've created lower thirds, title graphics, bugs, or any other graphic you might need for your live production on an ATEM. Your simple graphics look fine, and your drop shadowed ones probably look OK, too. But… somehow, the shadows aren't quite right, and if you tried to do make anything more complicated like a glow, or a graduated color transparency, then things looked downright awful. WHY?!
There's actually a very specific way that transparent graphics need to be made for an ATEM, and that's something called “premultiplied”. In this video, we'll start with a simple graphic that just works — mostly. Let's call it… good enough. Then, we'll break it with a more advanced graphic. And finally, we'll see how to make the graphic properly, using the free Photoshop plugin that's already been installed by the Blackmagic Design ATEM Software installer!
But what if you don't have Photoshop? That's OK! In the next tip, number 5, we'll explore how to make them in any graphics app, such as Affinity Photo.
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Can I use a Chroma Key and Super Source at the same time?
But I just need to position the USK to be over a SS box which is a media player and if those are synced, then I get the effect I want. Pretty sweet! If a bit more round-about than i'd like.
...now, if only I could define variables in the ATEM Software! Hah, that'd be fun. ;)
I know that would require having a 2 M/E.....but.....maybe don't give me excuses.
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