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Alessandro Vecchi
Inspiring
Sep 3, 2018 12:41 PM UTC
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Adding a video in the background

Hello,

i'm totally new to this program so please apologize my question.

I want to have a background that is a room with a TV on the wall and I would like to insert some videos in the TV.

How can I do this?

Thank you

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KJerryK
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Legend
Sep 3, 2018 5:15 PM UTC

You can do everything inside CA, except you can't import any video files. What you can try is to make a cycle puppet that uses images for layers, and position the cycle inside the tv screen window. I never thought of that before. I have made bar scenes with a tv showing, say, a football game. and the detail of the game is very small, so a repeating cycle might serve your purpose. If you try it let us know how it works. That might be a fun way to do it. I'm going to try it myself.

Edit: One way to do it might be to take an actual video and pick frames to make into the cycle.


Here is a quick example

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KJerryK
Legend
Sep 3, 2018 3:07 PM UTC

I would take the scene into After Effects or Premiere Pro to add the videos.

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Alessandro Vecchi
Inspiring
Sep 3, 2018 3:25 PM UTC

Thanks for your time answering.

There's any easy way directly inside CA if I don't know how to use AE?

Thanks

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KJerryK
Legend
Sep 3, 2018 4:42 PM UTC

You can do everything inside CA, except you can't import any video files. What you can try is to make a cycle puppet that uses images for layers, and position the cycle inside the tv screen window. I never thought of that before. I have made bar scenes with a tv showing, say, a football game. and the detail of the game is very small, so a repeating cycle might serve your purpose. If you try it let us know how it works. That might be a fun way to do it. I'm going to try it myself.

Edit: One way to do it might be to take an actual video and pick frames to make into the cycle.

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