Animated or moving background, like some other moving pictures, can also be referred as footage, which is quite an extensive concept. As a matter of fact, footage works as a basic platform for video composition creation and can be used to design your own, exclusive footages as well. So what is actually footage? It is a video composition which can include: video pictures, animated backgrounds, 3D elements, animated titles, transactions, and, so-called, sparkles.

Animated background is a set of images, with the specified course of movement.

3D animations are not like common video as they are developed on the computer alone with 3D graphics software. 3D drawing and animation help the artist to show either thing which is impossible or too expensive to capture in any other way.

The footage application field is quite extensive. A variety of topics allows using these technologies, both for home videos editing, and for television bumpers design of the best known world broadcasting companies. Wedding and other celebrations are most popular themes. They are successfully used worldwide, for weddings, children's and celebration videos editing. These beautiful special effects work as the powerful arsenal in hands of the video editor. Using this technology in your videos, you can create your own charming and beautiful world which will not leave anyone indifferent.

The basic multifunctional formats used for footages are Quick Time Movie and AVI standard definition. Nowadays HD and HDV formats become more and more popular due to high quality of the image, but they also take more hard drive space. There are two basic types of files: based on the alpha channel, or without it. The alpha channel footages are overlay masks, titles, МD (Motion design) elements, transactions. Footages without alpha channel can be used as a support background for the basic composition, titles, DVD menu, and also as a basis for an original overlay mask of the so-called background appearance, through the gradient mask.

The majority of footage elements are represented by cyclic video compositions, that is, when the entrance and target points ideally coincide on movement. As a result of a repeated insertion on the Time line of the same footage, the composition duration can be prolonged up to the necessary timing.

In our opinion, competent execution of a video is the whole of many factors. Those include a scenario, caption, and the last but not the least important factor is editing which actually influence the client's perception of the submitted video. Special effects and music of high quality will help you to create exceptional mood and to reveal the entire fullness of sensation. Footages and smart sounds, as we think, are a better choice to work with in this kind of field.

The boundless possibilities become available for videographers and give you the chance not only to bring your video to a new level of quality, but also in many other cases to solve more challenges, like correcting errors which even the most skilled videos editors make sometimes. Indeed, footages are a universal solution for video processing, and also are vital for everyone who is anyhow connected with video production.

Using 3D moving backgrounds or animated backgrounds, gives you a good chance to hold the viewer's attention, while improving the quality of your video productions. The result is a video production that has a professional look and is obviously more eye-catching to the viewer.