Selecting order of appearance for videos?

RobertGamblito

Newbie Joined: Nov 01, 2013 11:06 Messages: 2 Offline

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Nov 01, 2013 11:18

Hello,

I've been struggling to figure out how to select the order of appearance for the three videos I use simultaneously.

The first video on the top should remain entirely visible for the whole period. But the two other videos appear on top of the first, which is the opposite of what I would like to see.. See picture attached.

I've tried opacity, chroma key etc but none are performing what I want. And a google search with countless terms did not lead to anything...

Any advice would be very welcome!

Cheers,

Robert


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CyberLink-Michael

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Nov 01, 2013 12:47

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Longedge

Senior Contributor Joined: Apr 28, 2011 15:38 Messages: 1504 Offline

Nov 01, 2013 13:44

I'm not sure I fully understand what you want to achieve.

If you want one full screen video running continuously as a background and then each of the other two appearing one ofter the other smaller and overlaid on top of the 'background' then it's just a matter of using two video tracks on the timeline the first with the background on it and the second with the other video tracks cross faded/wiped or whatever.

Have I misunderstood?

jr-video

Newbie Joined: Sep 25, 2013 12:23 Messages: 18 Offline

Nov 01, 2013 13:45

Hi Robert,

In PowerDirector the video on track 1 will appear behind the video on track 2. The video on track 2 in its turn will appear behind the video on track 3. And so on. So, the video you want to see al the time (on top of the other videos) needs to be on the highest track number. In your case that would be the 'triangle' video.
In addition to that you should create a mask file in the form of the triangle and apply this mask to that 'triangle' video. (As a matter of fact PD comes with a triangle mask.) The mask will make the underlying videos (on the lower track numbers) visible. Take a look at the screenshots.
HTH.

Grtz.,
Jos


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RobertGamblito

Newbie Joined: Nov 01, 2013 11:06 Messages: 2 Offline

Nov 07, 2013 04:42

Hi Longedge and Jos

I've shifted the videos on the timeline, placing the triangle video on the third and the two others above.

And it's working like a charm!

Thanks both for the detailed explanations, really helpful!

Robert

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Nov 07, 2013 10:10

The order of precedence of videos on the Powerdirector timeline is Higher Numbered tracks overlay Lower Numbered tracks.

You can change how videos are seen with chroma Key and transparency.
You can make parts of higher number tracks to allow parts of lower number tracks to show thru.

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