AVI transparency

[Serpico8591]

Please excuse me if my question has been asked a million times before, but I couldn't find the answer in the old posts. Is it possible to export to avi format completely transparent, like with animated gifs?

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Paul
Belgium

[Egg Bramhill]

Paul
Xara 3D4 has an export to .avi filter. If it's possible to export a transparent .avi I don't think so. I dont think .avi's support transparent backgrounds do they? It's not a file type I use very often.
As a work round you could always import the required background of you target file as the background.
Egg

[Serpico8591]

Thanks for the info Egg, very much appreciated. Maybe I should rephrase my question. As a novice user I risk of saying something stupid but I will do so anyway [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

You know these programs that alert you soon as you receive new e-mail? Suppose I want to see my favorite artist's name, in 3D, freely rotating 360 degrees as soon new mail gets in. I assume most of these programs use AVI files. Can Xara create such rotating 3D objects or am I fishing in the wrong pond?

Again, thanks for helping out.

Regards,

Paul

[Mick Robinson]

This is not possible with AVIs - the format does not support transparent backgrounds. If you want transparency, you have to use Animated GIFs.