How to change proportion of image within the menu buttons

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Keith Hosman

Newbie Joined: Oct 24, 2018 10:52 Messages: 1 Offline

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Oct 24, 2018 11:01

I need to be able to change the proportion of the images being used (being created automatically by PowerDirector) because when they appear as buttons on the menu, they're not centered/out of proportion. For example, the button on the menu might just show my hat or nose... This may be because the app is simply inserting a frame from video that was shot at 19201080 - I don't know. Anybody know how to fix this - because if I can't... I can't use the program.

Note that the thumbnails look fine (in proportion) everywhere in the program except the menu - it's only on the menu that they appear screwed up.

Frankly, I've spent an entire day trying to figure this out and I'm about ready to pass on this software... It should be a whole lot easier.

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Warry

Senior Contributor Location: The Netherlands Joined: Oct 13, 2014 11:42 Messages: 853 Offline

Oct 24, 2018 13:42

Hi Keith

I did try this:
Open the CHAPTER track in the time-line (right-click in the track number field to open the menu to do that) and
create a chapter for the video (-part) you want to appear in the menu behind the button. Obviously this can also be the whole movie in the timeline, it that case select the chapter start to be the first frame.

PD (17) has the option to select a (or any) frame from the timeline as the chapter image.
So I pointed to the frame I wanted to use in the button and clicked select current frame.
Well, that button image is the precise image of the frame as shown in the preview screen.

So I manipulated this frame temporarily to show the image I wanted to use in the button, (You can do that by moving the white frame around the movie in the preview screen to crop the image so that it shows that part you need)
and pressed select current frame again. The temporarily enhanced frame appeared in the/as the chapter image.

Then I restored the movie image in the preview screen to normal again. Now dont press this select frame button again for this chapter. In my test the enhanced frame image appeared in the menu as required.

Now, there may be a way to select or overrule button images. It would be good to have that option anyway, but I have not found how (yet).

Maybe this helps?

Warry

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