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Overlay clips
Adding multiple Overlay Tracks gives you more creative possibilities for your movie. You can
superimpose clips over a background video with portions of the overlay being transparent,
use a video mask, or add objects and frames to your video and control how they blend with
the background.
This section contains the following topics:
• Adding clips to overlay tracks
• Adjusting overlay clips
• Combining Overlay clips to create an Ultra HD (4K) video
• Applying motion to an overlay clip
• Adjusting the overall transparency of overlay clips
• Adding borders to overlay clips
• Blending overlay clips with the background
• Adding a mask frame
• Using video masks with overlay clips
Adding clips to overlay tracks
Drag media files to the Overlay Track on the Timeline to add them as overlay clips for your
project.
To add a clip to the Overlay Track
1 In the Library, select the media folder that contains the Overlay clip that you want to add
to your project.
2 Drag the media file from the Library to the Overlay Track on the Timeline.
Note: You can also use color clips as Overlay clips. To add more tracks, see “Adding and
swapping tracks” on page 67.
3 To customize the Overlay clip, select the clip and edit it interactively in the Player panel
preview window, or open the Options panel, and modify the settings.
Adjusting overlay clips
Achieving different effects for your projects is easy when you know how to use Overlay clips
and tracks.