I've on deadline crunch and butting my head against the wall. This seems like it should be simple. Doc is centered on screen talking away and he refers to product - I want to cut to a shot of him moved over taking up the right two thirds of the screen - so far so good; on the left third of the screen I want a blue background gradient going from near black at bottom to deep blue at top - so far so good (over this I'm going to bring up relevant product info as he discusses it - so far so good); so, here's my question - how do I do a soft transition between my right background edge and the live video of Doc? I found the 'Sony Border' effect, but that does all sides of the gradient - I just want to soften the edge between the gradient and the video... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA