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Chapter 8: Still images 147
CHAPTER 8:
Still images
Video usually means images in motion, but most
productions also include stationary titles or graphics,
and may include other types of still image as well.
The still images you can use in your movies include:
• All types of text captions and graphics, including
scrolling credits and “crawled” messages.
• Photos or drawings stored in disk-based image files.
• Individual video frames obtained with the Frame
grabber tool.
• “Disc menus” for DVD and VCD authoring. These
specialized images are covered in Chapter 9: Disc
menus.
Any of these still image types can be treated in either of
two ways, depending on which track you drop them
onto in the Movie Window Timeline:
• To add a full-screen image with a solid background,
add the image to the video track.
• To add an image so that it appears in your movie
with a transparent background, superimposed over
the clips on the video track, place it on the title track.
The color of the pixel in the top-left corner of the
image will be treated as transparent when the image