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Until today I was making a project in Quartz Composer, but have decided to try Max instead due to the ease of exporting and added flexibility Max provides.

What I'm hoping to gain is some direction pointing toward the correct tool within Max to achieve the following.

- Layer 1 (background layer) is a short looping video

- Multiple images that can be used to mask the pieces of the above image

What tools would I need to accomplish this? the video tutorials that Max ships with have been useful in understanding how to achieve my 'Layer 1'. 'Layer 2', however completely alludes me.

Currently there is no patch to share as I'm looking for direction. Will post some code once I have it though.

- Layer 1 (background layer) is a short looping video
- Layer 2 has the following sub-layers
   - An image
   - Multiple images that can be used to mask the pieces of the above image

Currently there is no patch to share as I'm looking for direction. Will post some code once I have it though.


maskingunmasking-and-layers-in-max

Actually I can distill this question to an even more specific question.

I made something quite similar to what this post describes 

https://cycling74.com/forums/png-images-with-transparency.

The above method allows for one bg image and one layered image (masking or otherwise). How would I layer multiple pngs to be fed into the input of a jit.alphablend object? In essence, I would like to layer 4 or more pngs on top of a movie and need some direction.

I made something quite similar to what this post describes https://cycling74.com/forums/png-images-with-transparency.

The above method allows for one bg image and one layered image (masking or otherwise). How would I layer multiple pngs to be fed into the input of a jit.alphablend object? In essence, I would like to layer 4 or more pngs on top of a movie and need some direction.


Masking/Unmasking and layers in Max