Hi all. Currently using PowerDirector 16 and have been pleased with the software.

However, I have been using the crop and zoom and found it quite mandraulic trying to keep a moving subject in the centre of the frame (e.g. a clip of a skier coming down a hill moving across your field of view, where the original recording does not follow the subject completely accurately). At present, I select crop and zoom, then adjust the crop box around the subject and then add numerous keyframes throughout the clip, moving the centre of the box around the subject and cropping to the desired size (you end u with a green line showing where you have moved throughout the clip, following your adjustments at each keyframe)

I then found the motion tracker and thought, brilliant, that tracks the subject automatically so just hit motion tracker then crop to the desired size with the subject now centre of frame throughout. However, there doesn’t seem to be any way to combine the two effects. After selecting motion tracker it just gives options of blurring the subject, add a highlight circle, text or PiP, all of which (IMHO) are of limited use. The motion tracker itself is great, the sub-options are limited.

Is is there anyway to combine the 2 or automatically crop / zoom box around the subject then get the software to track? I have written numerous e-mails to the Cyberlink technical team but their responses do not make any sense and their suggestions do not work.

Thanks

Steve