Adding shape overlay to freeze frame

AllanSmithee

Member Joined: Mar 13, 2015 19:16 Messages: 54 Offline

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Mar 20, 2015 08:04

Hi,

I would like to add a quadrilateral overlay to a freeze-frame, followed by a cross through the middle, to highlight the portion of a video where something will be inserted. I can't figure out a good way to do this...

On a previous post somewhere I remember someone recommending paint.net but it seems this program can only draw rectangles.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

EDIT: I don't really want a parallelogram, maybe something closer to a trapezoid. Really I just need to draw a shape made up of four intersecting lines with custom angles between them. I might even prefer if one side were curved. How can I do this?

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Carl312

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

Mar 20, 2015 16:38

Paint.Net can draw shapes.

very rough Trapezoid with a Cross inside.


Filename	Paint_net Draw a Trapezoid with a Cross.png	Download
Description	It is rough
Filesize	7 Kbytes
Downloaded:	67 time(s)

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ynotfish

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

Mar 21, 2015 04:05

Hi Allan -

When you get Paint.NET up & running, this little quick toot shows how to do (something like) what you're after.

I live like I type - fast & full of mistakes

Also, once you've drawn a shape like that you can use PDR's freeform tool to manipulate it. This started out as a rectangle.

Cheers - Tony

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