had this question on arkaos via e-mail so thought i'd post the reply here in case it's useful to anyone else...
hey can you send me instruction on how to do the line
of text/transparency thing in arkaos?
to add a 'meditation line' like 'god is here' to move
across a video? (like you did at the wroship we did in
palo alto)
In arkaos when you have a video or an image or a flash text assigned to a key you can add various effects to it. Double click on an item and then a window opens up - there is a button that says copy mode which has a range of selections including transparency, subtraction, addition, multiplication. Try messing with those - what subtraction and addition do is to knock out dark or light areas of an image so that what is underneath shines through. This can look stunning on the right combinations...
So with the text you asked about, this is one of the preset flash texts. You'll see a couple with big letters in. Drag them on to a key, then double click on them and try the subtraction or addition or even making a mask effect. You also need to type in your own words in the text line - it will only cope with short things such as 'god is here'...
The way I do other words is to create jpegs and drag them in - create them at 640x 480 pixels - if you do white on black or vice versa using the effects described you can overlay images with song words or whatever.
Another tip is that there is a button that says latch - this makes a video loop keep running when you press a key so that you don't have to keep pressing it. Then when you press it again it will stop... hope this helps.
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