On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:16:24 -0500, "Steve Sakellarios" wrote:

>I'm a long-time "meat-and-potatoes" editor with Premiere starting to delve
>into the finer points and special effects. I want to key a video box cover
>spinning into a moving background, and I'm going step-by-step through the
>manual. I have the key okay with the "Chroma" setting, and I can
>zoom-and-spin the box cover into the middle of the frame. However, the
>entire frame that the box is in starts small and zooms in. If I elminate the
>zoom, I'm still seeing the white edges around the entering frame as it
>spins.
>
>I'm sure I'm missing something. How can I take an object smaller than the
>frame, and zoom/spin it into the frame as a key, without seeing "past" the
>edges of that spinning frame as it comes in? If I import an object smaller
>than the frame size, it just distorts to fill the frame.

You don't say how you are "zooming and spinning" the
box cover in... If you are using the "motion tool", there is
a box for selecting background color for the area beyond
the frame edge (you can use black for both the area
outside the original frame and for the area inside the
frame around the box cover that you also want to make
transparent - and you can leave the default transparency
on the V2 or higher tracks [Alpha matte] alone)...