opacity values

I've just begun tinkering with the opacity setting in PE4 and was wondering.. how many of you use the feature to overlay clips, and is there a typical opacity setting that you use - or does it depend on the brightness/contrast/whatever of the individual clips?



I'd love to hear of projects where you used this.
opacity values
Overlay? You mean like a double-exposure?



Never.



I mainly use opacity for fading in and out or dissolving between clips.
opacity values
I guess you could call it double exposure...an example might be of a large flag waving ''in the background'' while a military parade marches ''in the foreground'' or vice versa. My question would then be...what opacity values work so the two clips compliment each other - so both are pleasingly visible. My guess is the values vary depending on the clips.

Oh, I see what you're trying to do! That makes sense.



I'd put one clip on Video 2 with 50% opacity and the other clip on Video 1, below it, at 100% opacity.



You may want to tweak it a bit, but that should get you 95% of the way there. (No need to change the opacity for the clip on Video 1. Do any adjustments to the Video 2 clip only.)