Mask filter question....

I have an odd shaped picture I want to superimpose on a video clip (maybe about half opacity), but dont want the entire frame overlayed, just the outline of the shape. Is this possible? It is a very simple drawing I am trying to do this with?
I am in kind of a jam for time so anyone who was any thoughts please post them.
Thanks
John

Just a WARNING if you use PAL projects: unfortunately they seem not to like imported stills with transparency (.tif and .psd for sure).
My unfortunate experience was to regularly lose the project after importing any of them; i.e. whenever I imported any of them, saved and closed the project, this was then unreadable at next opening... very bad!
As a workaround I learned to use Photoshop Elements to set the image on a white (or other flat color) background, and save it as .jpg.
When I import the .jpg into FCE I use the chroma keyer filter to substitute the white background with transparency.
If you are using NTSC, though, there shouldn't be any problem that I know.
Piero

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Vladimir Bartos wrote:
I have got a problem to display the Download link (button) in a classic report to open the uploaded file. I have got two columns in the report: FILENAME and ATTACHMENT. The second is the BLOB type column in my table.
My Report query is: select FILENAME, ATTACHMENT from QTMT_TICKETS where TICKET_ID = :P10_TICKET_ID
As described in the documentation, the download link column in the report must provide the length of the BLOB:
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To facilitate the inclusion of a download link in a report, the report includes the selection of the length of the BLOB (for example, dbms_lob.getlength(RESUME)). If the length is 0, the BLOB is NULL and no download link is displayed.
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do you remember my previous post? Well, now I've a similar requirement, but again I haven't a solution. i've following question:
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Hi,
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Error Code: YQCO4T56:OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC:OI2DL65P
Driver Odbc returns an error (SQLExecDirectW).
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 27002] Near <ICO’>: Syntax error [nQSError: 26012] . (HY000)
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James M. wrote:
you need to nest your entire sequence and add the TC gen to that...
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I have a dataset of many years data. I want to show the count of records for each of the past 7 days.
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Questions: What is the best way to filter by past 7 days, or how can I add this formula to the query filter?
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Hi everyone,
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Jack,
I was the Instrumentation Engineer at a university for 24 years and worked with several execise physiologists, biologists, and neuroscientists on similar projects. My group was the "lab/tech staff" you have little of. There were 3.5 (engineer, 1.5 electronics technicians, and machinist) of us for the entire university.
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What kind of noise are you seeing and how is it affecting your measurements? Can you post some data?
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