textsub ssa > alpha level for karaoke

[KimonoGrl]

hi, does any know how to make the secondary font of a font style in a SSA subfile to be transparent or have a different alpha level?

i tried to do it manually by converting the hex color to long decimal (as explained in the 'ass-specs.doc') but that didnt work >_<

basically i want the karaoke fonts to be invisible until sweeped.

thx :)

[Xombie]

Sounds like you're looking for the "\2a&H<alpha>&" where <alpha> is 0 to 255, 0 being solid and 255 is transparent.

For alpha transparency, you'd use:

\1a&H<alpha>& - for the primary color
\2a&H<alpha>& - for the secondary color
\3a&H<alpha>& - for the outline color
\4a&H<alpha>& - for the back/shadow color

I hope that's what you're looking for. Just be sure to use TextSub filter and you should be all set.

[KimonoGrl]

thanks! excactly what i looking for :)

oh yea and i think the value is hex... 00...FF

[Xombie]

Ah, you're right. I keep forgetting the color & alpha overrides are hex values. That almost always throw me for a loop ^_^

The effect you're shooting for sounds pretty nifty, by the way.