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lbmcleod
12th March 2004, 16:49
i'm trying to create a makeshift "chromakeying" effect with powerpoint and milkdrop. Ive done it with windows media player/powerpoint - by setting the background colour of powerpoint to the WMP "key" colour (the colour you get when you try to print-screen WMP screen into paint - you cant get the image). By doing this, restoring WMP and then running the powerpoint show you can see "through" the slide to the video - all because the background of the slide is set to the applications key colour.

I would like todo this with Milkdrop, but when I print-screen into Paint, it just does a normal screen capture. I was therefore wondering if you could tell me what Milkdrop's "key colour" was, if it has one. I assume it uses this technique to put Milkdrop in the desktop.

If Milkdrop does not have a "key colour" (which I think it might not seeing as you can print-screen sucessfully into paint from it) then would you consider including an option tick box in future versions todo this, which would also disable taking screenshots from Milkdrop. This feature would be very useful to VJ's or anyone who does live shows.

lbmcleod
8th April 2004, 23:05
bump

axiomat
3rd May 2004, 21:13
Yeah, and what are our chances of ever seeing a "use overlay mode" button like AVS has one.

That feature is so darn usefull it makes me cringe to think that everybodies favorite PluigIn should miss out on such a nifty, if not essential, feature...

:cry:

An outrage!

;)

Illusion
4th May 2004, 12:49
Unfortunately, as far as as everyone knows, MilkDrop development has stopped.. which is a real shame...

axiomat
4th May 2004, 13:14
...but maybe if we continue to annoy Mr. Geiss like this, he'll be inclined to take another look at the matter... ;)

or...

...how feasible is it to include a feature in Winamp which forces Plug-Ins to run in overlay mode?!?

bdmagee
13th May 2004, 14:40
In older versions of Milkdrop, you can do this very easily. Just set your powerpoint background color to the overlay color.

The newer versions use some alternative method for desktop mode.

My suggestion is that you download an older version of Milkdrop.


Bring the Overlay Back Post (http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=172650)