I have a little animation I made edited with Magix Movie Edit Pro. Unfortunately I had to compromise to fit the limits of the software. Like most other video software AFAIK, it only supports linear interpolation between two images, and doesn't support Photoshop style blend modes. I needed Screen and Soft Light blend modes, so I had to create key frames in PSP combining background scenery and foreground elements. Sadly the end result produces a rather choppy background, where I want the background smoothly animated, and I'm unhappy with the result.
I've been digging through the internet trying to find a tool (preferably free or dirt cheap) that would let me combine two video streams, background and foreground, and blend them suitably. The one everyone talks about is VirtualDub but I haven't read or seen anything about it that suggests blending between streams - only applying filters to one video. I did have a look at it briefly, I think, but didn't get very far.
Anyone know of any solutions? Are there any video editing/compositing tools, perhaps script based, that allow such blends to be applied?
I've been digging through the internet trying to find a tool (preferably free or dirt cheap) that would let me combine two video streams, background and foreground, and blend them suitably. The one everyone talks about is VirtualDub but I haven't read or seen anything about it that suggests blending between streams - only applying filters to one video. I did have a look at it briefly, I think, but didn't get very far.
Anyone know of any solutions? Are there any video editing/compositing tools, perhaps script based, that allow such blends to be applied?