annotating videos with animations, arrows, things like that.

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Carl312

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

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Sep 21, 2014 16:00

Quote: One thing I might look into is annotating videos with animations, arrows, things like that. But I'm not sure if a video editor is even meant to do such a thing.

You can use PNG objects with transparent backgrounds.

Here is a file of arrows and circles. I thank the poster (I don't remember who) that posted them a long time ago on the forum.

Filename	Arrows.zip	Download
Description	Arrows and circles
Filesize	136 Kbytes
Downloaded:	602 time(s)

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ScottFromOz

Newbie Joined: Aug 17, 2014 18:49 Messages: 8 Offline

Sep 22, 2014 13:52

This is something that PD does well. By combining keyframes for motion, rotation, scale, transparency etc, you can do a lot with some simple PNG graphics. There are some nice freeware programs to create PNG graphics such as GIMP.

Here's a video I did that I animated some arrows I made. I also used some other graphics.
http://youtu.be/5TWzH70teM8 Scott Hendry
www.scotthendry.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCscotthendry

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