On 22 Feb 2003 04:07:10 GMT, k9660r@aol.com (Ken Rutherford) wrote:

>I recently made a small project in Premier 6.5 (Mac version) and used the

>"curtain" transition for my opening scene.

>The title opens up on a black background, and then the screen splits and draws

>to the upper corners like a real curtain in a theater.

>My problem is this: I want the video behind the curtain to be playing while the

>curtain starts to open. In other words, it would look like a real theater

>scene. I've tried by using the rubberbands to gradually fade in the scene after

>the curtain opens but the scene shows through the curtain. I want the curtain

>to block the scene and expose it gradually as the curtain opens without the

>scene showing through the curtain. I can't seem to get this to work. Is it

>possible?

It is possible, but you cannot do it in one stage.

Take the title panel and use the curtain transition

to move to a plain background color similar to (but

not the same as) the predominant color in the video

scene you will use. Make this into a clip and import

it. Place it on V2 above the video scene, and use

transparency, chroma key, and select the plain color

used in the original clip that the curtain opened

onto to be transparent (you may need to adjust

transparency controls a bit to optimize results...).