re-cropping a photo in PiP

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BarryN

Newbie Joined: Sep 13, 2017 16:30 Messages: 3 Offline

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Sep 13, 2017 16:55

Magic motion is a great tool, but it doesn't always show what you might want. I applied it to 60 photos, and most are great but there are a few I need to change. I can works with the keyframes fine, but I need help with re-croping a photo, not resizing. For example;

lets say there is a pic of a person in front of a building. "Magic Motion" crops the pic down to the face and adds some movement. Fine, but I need the building in the picture as a reference. I can open PiP and do most of the changes I want save one.

Question; Is there a way in PiP I can adjust the automatic cropping of a picture without losing some of the added motion?

I know I can delete the pic and replace it with a new one, but then I lose the cross fade or other changes "magic Motion" has made. Barry

ynotfish

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

Sep 14, 2017 02:10

Hi Barry -

I'm not sure whether you want to use Magic Motion or PiP Designer to do that.

It sounds like you've used the presets in Magic Motion and some of them aren't exactly what you want. If that's the case, just:

Select the photo you want to modify

Go back to Magic Motion

Select User Defined and set/change the keyframes so you get the motion you want.

Cheers - Tony
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BarryN

Newbie Joined: Sep 13, 2017 16:30 Messages: 3 Offline

Sep 15, 2017 08:41

Thanks Tony that helped. Barry

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