Hi betanc1496 -

That depends on which particular template you'd like to modify. In some cases, like full animations, it's not possible. In others it's pretty easy.

For some templates, it can be a simple as importing your image and copying & pasting keyframe attributes from the template to the image (if they're the same aspect ratio).

Which particular motion object do you have in mind? or is it a more general question?

Cheers - Tony
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Quote Hi betanc1496 -

That depends on which particular template you'd like to modify. In some cases, like full animations, it's not possible. In others it's pretty easy.

For some templates, it can be a simple as importing your image and copying & pasting keyframe attributes from the template to the image (if they're the same aspect ratio).

Which particular motion object do you have in mind? or is it a more general question?

Cheers - Tony

The PiP objects templates were TAEYEON and !!/Mes/new/17/06. I tried the PiP designer and Mask designer menus under the Designer tool to no avail. Tried loading a new jpeg image, creating a new mask with the new image, etc., but the original image was still in the background which muddled the object.

It took more time to locate those two templates on DZ, than it did to modify them.

https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/160870866 (the film reel background cleverly named !!//Mes/new/17/06/) was installed at C:\Users\Public\CyberLink\Downloaded Effects\Frame Effects\pipxxx

https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/162871295 (TAEYEON) was installed at C:\Users\Public\CyberLink\Downloaded Effects\Emotion Effects\pipxxx

The first one could barely be described as a template at all. It's just a static image. No motion. No nothing. So - the best thing you can do is ignore it and import your own image.

The TAEYEON template has motion and you can easily "replicate" if you have an image that has the same dimensions/aspect ratio. The image used is 1080x1349. You can do it two ways:

1. Make sure your own image is resized/re-proportioned to match the original


2. Rename it to IMG_2404


3. Replace the image in the template folder

or use the method shown in this short screen capture. Attached is the template made during the capture, packed with Godfrey's Template Packer.

Cheers - Tony
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Quote It took more time to locate those two templates on DZ, than it did to modify them.

https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/160870866 (the film reel background cleverly named !!//Mes/new/17/06/) was installed at C:\Users\Public\CyberLink\Downloaded Effects\Frame Effects\pipxxx

https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/162871295 (TAEYEON) was installed at C:\Users\Public\CyberLink\Downloaded Effects\Emotion Effects\pipxxx

The first one could barely be described as a template at all. It's just a static image. No motion. No nothing. So - the best thing you can do is ignore it and import your own image.

The TAEYEON template has motion and you can easily "replicate" if you have an image that has the same dimensions/aspect ratio. The image used is 1080x1349. You can do it two ways:

1. Make sure your own image is resized/re-proportioned to match the original


2. Rename it to IMG_2404


3. Replace the image in the template folder

or use the method shown in this short screen capture. Attached is the template made during the capture, packed with Godfry's Template Packer.

Cheers - Tony

The method to copy the downloaded template's keyframe and paste on the new image worked great after resizing the new image. Had trouble resizing the new image in PhotoDirector 7 so I had to use Photoshop. Mayber PhotoDirector can't resize without cropping? Thanks anyway.