Adding a background behind a video

I've been using quicktime to add a black background to my files. My files are 720x300 and I put a 640x480 black background behind them. I resize the 720x300 file to make it fit into the background.
Is there anyway to do this in FCE? I plan on buying a book so I can learn the program, I just wanted to try it out before filling my mind with lots of info about FCE.

It's the default behavior of FCE to place a black "background" behind everything, so yes.

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• Place your jpeg photo (just the photo, no text) in your sequence.
• Place a text generator clip (Boris Title 3D, Lower Third, etc.) on the next higher video track, above the photo. (If your photo is on V2, put the text clip above it on V3 ...)
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I have to shoot a colleague at work presenting the company news and i would like to put a digital background behind her comprising of the company logo and maybe image, can anyone tell me the best way to go about this ?
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ADDED: Oops! Looks like Winston beat me out here...
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Ipad background audio from video when multitasking

Hello.
This is a request if people can either feedback On their present experience or try this out themselves first and feedback.
I have an ipad 1. When ever i try to get background audio to play from video when multitasking in another app, eg safari, from any video app including plex, airvideo, vlc, and the original apple video app. All that occurs is that the icon changes to the ipod and a random song is played from my music library instead of the audio from the video i was watching. This does not matter if the video file is streamed or stored on the ipad itself.
There is one slight and occasional proviso to this, as at times if the video file is tagged in itunes as 'music' rather than 'movie' or 'tv show' etc then it does on occasions work, and on occasions youtube videos will play in the background. But most of the time these aspects also dont function int he background with the ipod icon instantly replacing which ever video app icon i tried to use in the background.
Now my sons iphone 4 manages to function correctly and always plays video in the background when multitasking.
I have asked this question before on this forum, with no response, so booked a visit to my local genius bar. Where they checked my ipad and agreed it wasnt working as ios should, then interestingly they attempted to do the same on an ipad 2 and it failed to work in exactly the same way. Their response was that this was obviously a fault of the ipad ios, possibly due to the ipad having a separate video app where as the iphone has video within its generic ipod app.
I did the usual by informing apple via of this bug through the feedback system, and requested that the genius bar do the same. But having thought about this, and failed to see any other users on this forum who are also puzzled at this lack of what i think is an important function, i wonder if this means that i am the only one who likes to listen to video when im browsing, so dont need it, or wether everyone elses ipads function as ios should do, and for some reason both my ipad, and the ipad 2 tested in the shop are at fault.
So can i request if others reading this can have a go to see if their ipad will play background audio from video when multitasking, or if the same problem occurs.
Thanks very much this is really appreciated.

Oops clicked the wrong button, I meant to click a 'helpful answer' as it hard to have a correct answer to such a question.
But thanks for the replies.
It looks like this is a bug in ios solely for the ipad, as it does work fine on the iphone although wonder which way the ipod touch will perform. interestingly it looks like i may also be in the minority of wishing to listen to video files as I browse:)
Which probably means apple may never get around to sorting it, as no one else uses the function.
Anyway thanks for the replies, if any one else wants to see the bug have a go and comment, i find it funny how I seem to be the only one to have found it to date.
R:)

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Monika Gause wrote:
Wade_Zimmerman wrote:
In a case like this just hiring a pro is not enough.
sorry, I have to disagree.
Handing the graphic stuff to a pro works for so many clients. Why shouldn't it work in this case? There is no simple alternative available. It's just not possible to explain this in a few newbie-compliant words and there is no simple method to get the desired solution (a logo without a white background - or whatever color it may be).
Because you did not read what I wrote and decided to interpret it based on the one phrase.
This user or would be users has no background in computer generated art and perhaps non in the preparation of art in genera for reproduction.
Hiring a pro in itself will not make for a great result and there is a good chance not even a professional resul.
The reason is that they themselves do no understand the requirements and probably put the kind of restrictions on the Pro to do things that will make for failure.
They need some education and some know how to relate to what the pro is doing for them.
It would be different if they had a professional or experience person to mentor them on the client side but they do not seem to.
I wrote they had to do three things in order to get some form of knowledge so they can work with a pro.
The OP states hey do not even understand the meaning of some of our words and phrases and so they first need to gain the some understanding of what is gong on or they will be in a panic at every turn.
I would even venture to say that you have never worked successfully with a client that ha no understand about what you are required to do, I am not say the OP has to be an expert they do have to be able to communicate with a pro.
The OP has to know what the pro is telling them what they are doing for them etc.
If you have ever been in the position of working with some one totally unfamilar with the task at hand then you would understand what I mean.
I once had a client who told me he could actually take the photographs better then I can if I would just show him the button on the camera that made the photos look good, so I pointed to the shutter release, he accused me of lying saying I was not showing him the secret button that professionals use.
He actually found a way he tells everyone that he took the photos I took that day.
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