All that is 'doable' by dropping your object onto a timeline below the main video (so it appears in front of the video), dragging it out to the length of time you want it to appear for and then with it selected click on keyframing. With the scrubber set to the start of that object you can then set all the properties you want - position, size, rotation, opacity etc.

If you want it to disappear back where it came from then move the scrubber to the clip's end position and right click in the line for each keyframe set at the beginning. Choose "Duplicate previous keyframe". That's the start and end set.

Now move the scrubber to anywhere in the middle and you can set keyframes for all the properties again simply by moving, re-sizing, rotating etc the object. The intermediate keyframes can be anywhere between the start and end.

It can be frustrating at first until you get your head around it.

Hi Longedge,

My thanks for such a speedy response, and with a solution which sounds quite simple (but I'm sure will not be quite so) too.

I shall "set-to" immediately and see how much of your predicted frustration is involved.

Thank you again for having helped with the problem.

Ian

It's worth checking out these tutorials on YouTube. There are excellent ones on keyframing.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6a0_l0sZGJNO0FXqaCB4KA

Regards
Phil

Hi Philwild,

Thanks for the link -- I've just had a quick look and it's really great.

I shall spend more time going through them all this evening.

Thanks again,

Ian

Ian,

Here is a clickable PDF list of the PowerDirector tutorials at the Sharper Turtle Link.

If you don't see a process for what you need, let me know.

--Jim

Hi JimIowa,

Sorry about the delay in responding.

Thanks for the list of Tutorials -- plenty to keep me occupied for some time to come, I think.

Kind regards,

Ian