[PD] [GEM] Flatten Alpha for storage, then restore it

Jack jack at rybn.org
Sat Aug 2 02:58:22 CEST 2008


You can use [pix_write].
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Jack


Le 2 août 08 à 02:25, Spencer Russell a écrit :

> I'm mixing video by background subtracting it and then setting the
> background transparent (alpha = 0), then texturing each video onto
> overlapping rectangles to achieve a compositing effect.
>
> I need to record the different videos with [pix_record] and then play
> them back later while preserving the alpha somehow, so I was thinking
> that I could just replace all the transparent part with bright pink or
> something and store it as regular photo jpeg frames, and then later
> set all the bright pink parts to transparent when I read the video
> back.
>
> I'm having trouble with both sides of the conversion, though. Perhaps
> there's a better approach entirely?
>
> thanks,
> spencer
>
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