Magic Motion on a selection of pictures

Stephan

Newbie Location: Belgium Joined: Jul 04, 2010 16:20 Messages: 13 Offline

Solved by

Jul 16, 2010 06:46

Q: is it possible to apply Magic Motion on a selection of pictures?

Seems only active if 1 pict is selected.
I have 1000picts in my timeline and I only want some slight motion/zoom in the pictures

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jul 16, 2010 12:57

Stephan -

Have you tried the Motion Slideshow template?

For 1000 images, that'd save you a lot of keyframing! Once PD builds the slideshow, you can customise it if you want.

In this tutorial, at about 3:30, it shows how - http://www.youtube.com/user/PDtoots#p/u/1/jXG2jDTHyKw You may not need that, but it's there if it helps.

Cheers - Tony
Visit PDtoots. PowerDirector Tutorials, tips, free resources & more. Subscribe!
Full linked Tutorial Catalog PDtoots happily supports fellow PowerDirector users!

Stephan

Newbie Location: Belgium Joined: Jul 04, 2010 16:20 Messages: 13 Offline

Jul 17, 2010 11:30

Thanks Tony,

This indeed is a good option.
It does remove the option to manually set a custom length on a certain picture .
Nice how to on YouTube, gets us newbies going in 10min.

Stephan

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jul 17, 2010 13:00

Thank you Stephan -

Glad it helped. Once you get going, there'll be no stopping you.

If you'd like particular images (let's say images 20-24) to appear for longer you could try:

1. Motion slideshow for images 1-19
2. Set individual duration & motion for images 20-24 (with fade transitions)
3. Motion slideshow for 25- etc
4. With a fade transition between 19/20 & 24/25, it will all link together nicely.

Cheers - Tony
Visit PDtoots. PowerDirector Tutorials, tips, free resources & more. Subscribe!
Full linked Tutorial Catalog PDtoots happily supports fellow PowerDirector users!