Adding a Picture behind a movie clip??

Ok I am shooting a movie. I want to have my cat walking through a city like he's larger than the city. Is there a way to replace the background I'm shooting with to a background of a city skyline? Is this possible to do in iMovie??

Drewzer,
It is.
But you'd need a third party plugin, such as this one:
http://www.stupendous-software.com/Stupendous/MasksCompositing/Pages/BlueScreenS mooth.html
The other thing you'd need to do is shoot your cat in front of a blue screen.
Matt

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the last update brings the capability of making still pictures. When i am making a still picture from a movie-file (.mov, .mpeg, .mp4) comressed with h264, the still picture is not shown correctly in the viewer.
But when making a still photo from an .avi, the photo is displayed in the viewer.
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Achim Bernlöhr wrote:
I hope you have some more ideas for help.
.. unfortunately not, because I can not recreate here your 'effect'.. your file works flawless within my iM08 vers.7.1., QT 7.2.0/7.2 , the still looks charming, no distortions, Mr Bublath in his all beauty ( ? ) ..
funny enough: I do have perian and many plug-ins installed, which are known here for making trouble, and my system works like charm.. as 99.8% of 'trouble' posted in this board don't happen to me..
here's a last and desperate advice:
how much free disk space is on your internal harddrve?
in case, you did partition it: on System Partition?
should be never below 10-15GB..

Dynamically adding multiple instances of a movie clip to the stage with one button

hello,
I was wondering if there was a way to add several instances
of the same movie clip to the stage dynamically utilizing one
button.
I can do one with the following code placed on the button...
on (release) {
attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled1", 5);
filled1._x = 370;
filled1._y = 225;
But I want the user to be able to hit the button again and
get yet another instance of "filledCircle" on the stage.
I also want the user to be able to drag these instances
around...
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks,
Muhl

Muhl,
> I was wondering if there was a way to add several
> instances of the same movie clip to the stage
> dynamically utilizing one button.
Sure thing.
> I can do one with the following code placed on the
> button...
>
> on (release) {
> attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled1", 5);
> filled1._x = 370;
> filled1._y = 225;
> }
Gotcha.
> But I want the user to be able to hit the button again
> and get yet another instance of "filledCircle" on the
> stage.
You're in luck, because this isn't very hard to do. The main
thing to
keep in mind is that each instance must have A) its own
unique instance name
and B) its own unique depth. In your example, the instance
name is filled1
and the depth is 5. The next clip's instance name should be
filled2 at a
depth of 6. Then filled3, depth 7, and so on. You can use a
single
variable to handle the incrementation.
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
// code on your button
on (release) {
attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter, counter +
4);
With me so far? The variable counter contains the numeric
value 1. The
second parameter of attachMovie() is provided with a
concatenation of
"filled" + 1, which makes "filled1". The third parameter is
provided with
the sum of counter plus 4, which makes 5. Obviously, we need
a bit more.
The button must, in addition, increment the value of counter.
The ++
operator handles this perfectly.
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4);
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Now, it seems you also want to position the attached movie
clip to (370,
225). Are they call supposed to go to the same place? If so,
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second variable to hold a reference to the newly attached
clip. Look up
MovieClip.attachMovie(), and you'll see that the method
returns the exact
reference you need.
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
var mc:MovieClip;
// code on your button
on (release) {
mc = attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter,
counter + 4);
counter++;
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mc._y = 225;
Make sense?
> I also want the user to be able to drag these instances
> around...
Then you need to handle a few events. You're dealing with
movie clips
here, so your best bet is to study up on the MovieClip class,
which defines
all movie clips. (Note, also, that the TextField class
defines all input
and dynamic text fields; the Sound class defines all sounds,
etc. This is a
very handy arrangement of the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference.)
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
var mc:MovieClip;
// code on your button
on (release) {
mc = attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter,
counter + 4);
counter++;
mc._x = 370;
mc._y = 225;
mc.onPress = function() {
this.startDrag();
mc.onRelease = function() {
this.stopDrag();
Easy as that. You're simply assigning a function literal to
the event
of each new MovieClip instance as you create it. Take a look
and you'll see
each of these class members available to you -- that is, to
all movie clips.
MovieClip.onPress, MovieClip.startDrag(), MovieClip._x, etc.
Wherever it shows the term MovieClip in the Language
Reference, just
replace that with the instance name of your clip -- or a
reference to that
clip (which even includes the global "this" property).
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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Duh, thanks Kglad. It's been a long week ;).
Jesse
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:47:57 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: removeChild for movie clip that was added in another function?
var myPreloader:mcPreloader
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