Assistance with keyframe with crop

Kostandino

Newbie Joined: Mar 11, 2013 18:29 Messages: 5 Offline

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Apr 20, 2017 07:18

Hi,

I have seen many a video where the video has no black bars top and bottom, but then to give a cinematic effect the next frame brings in the black bars top and bottom but does so in an animated way. Not sure of the correct terminonlogy, maybe animated letter boxing fits better?

I am unable to work out how to do this on Powerdirector and have done a lot of searching.

I have found the below video for another product, but I think it resembles what I want to do well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABwbvuYbCQ

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Longedge

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

Apr 20, 2017 08:03

Welcome to the forum

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That effect is easily achieved by keyframing 2 black color boards in the layers above your main image/video. Place the color boards on to the timeline and then click on each one in turn and select "Keyframe". Now set the start poisition and PDR will set a keyframe for you. Now move the scrubber to the end of the clip and move the color board to the end position.; Once you've done that for each one, job's finished.

p.s. - if you wanted to re-use the effect you could do this over a different color board as the background instead of an image and then produce it and use the produced video as you would a transition by chroma-keying the original base color board - if you understand what I mean

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p.p.s - I've just been playing around with the idea of chroma keying to create a transition and it's got my mind racing with almost endless possibilities. I have to say that I'm an inveterate 'do it yourself from scratcher'.

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Description	Similar effect but chroma keyed as in my p.s.
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Kostandino

Newbie Joined: Mar 11, 2013 18:29 Messages: 5 Offline

Apr 20, 2017 14:49

Quote Welcome to the forum

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That effect is easily achieved by keyframing 2 black color boards in the layers above your main image/video. Place the color boards on to the timeline and then click on each one in turn and select "Keyframe". Now set the start poisition and PDR will set a keyframe for you. Now move the scrubber to the end of the clip and move the color board to the end position.; Once you've done that for each one, job's finished.

p.s. - if you wanted to re-use the effect you could do this over a different color board as the background instead of an image and then produce it and use the produced video as you would a transition by chroma-keying the original base color board - if you understand what I mean

.

p.p.s - I've just been playing around with the idea of chroma keying to create a transition and it's got my mind racing with almost endless possibilities. I have to say that I'm an inveterate 'do it yourself from scratcher'.

Thank you, I will give this a try tonight.

Kostandino

Newbie Joined: Mar 11, 2013 18:29 Messages: 5 Offline

Apr 20, 2017 15:37

Gave it a quick go! Didn't think of doing additional layers, works a treat. Thank you.

ynotfish

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

Apr 20, 2017 20:37

Good work Mr Longedge!

The creative juices are flowing. Your post brought to mind a little snippet from Blazing Saddles (attached for your amusement)

It's also possible to make motion templates like these, should you need to use the same idea in future projects:

Black Bars Close 1 - Black Bars Close 2 - Black Bars Open 1 - Black Bars Open 2

They look a bit like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rChY-CxmPyI

Cheers - Tony

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Kostandino

Newbie Joined: Mar 11, 2013 18:29 Messages: 5 Offline

Apr 21, 2017 06:30

Quote Good work Mr Longedge!

The creative juices are flowing. Your post brought to mind a little snippet from Blazing Saddles (attached for your amusement)

It's also possible to make motion templates like these, should you need to use the same idea in future projects:

Black Bars Close 1 - Black Bars Close 2 - Black Bars Open 1 - Black Bars Open 2

They look a bit like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rChY-CxmPyI

Cheers - Tony

Thanks Tony,

I'll have a look and go at your mentioned method tonight also, will let you know how I get on!