flipping video and overlaying question

[burnandreturn]

I thought I knew how to do this but I was wrong! I have a video of a man explaining how to do something. He has a video of his computer monitor and then a smaller video showing his hands pointing left and right. The smaller video needs to be flipped 180 degrees so when he says left his hands are pointing to the left as the viewer is looking on. I went into layouter and cropped the video down to just the smaller video and exported that video to my bin. Then I put that video on the timeline on V2. When I play it back only the flipped video is seen. How do I get the original video to play in the background with the flipped video over the same location as the original smaller video. I am having a brain freeze. I only normally work with one video track and titles on V2. The titles show over V1.

I am using Edius 9 workgroup

[burnandreturn]

Got it. I went back to David Clarke's tutorials I bought and looked at the mask filter. Bingo.

[David Clarke]

Glad the tutorial helped but you should be able to do this without exporting the file. Use the mirror filter to flip the video and then use the layouter to shrink it and crop the edges. If you put the mirror before the layouter it will be flipped first and then you can position and crop.
If you exported a clip and it did not have a transparent background this could be because you are in a project which does not have alpha set in the settings, or you are exporting to a format that does not save the alpha - you really have to use one of the GV ones with alpha in the name, or the clip you were exporting was on track one and not track 2.

[burnandreturn]

That worked much better David. Thank you.