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dje53

Newbie Joined: Mar 18, 2019 15:58 Messages: 1 Offline

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Mar 22, 2019 16:12

Hi
I'm fairly new to this and thought I had a fair understanding of PIP, however maybe not!

I'm looking at the RoadTrip express project (TravelPack4) where it draws a yellow line on the screen. Looking at the pip object in the designer it shows as path_000.png; this however is a completely blank graphic. I've searched high & low for the actual line footage, disabled all other video tracks etc but without any luck. It's the same on a couple of other tracks I've looked at with the same effect; different but blank png file. It does work however so I'm obviously missing something.

I'm using PD17, latest patch. I like to understand what I'm doing so hopefully someone can help me.

Cheers

David

ynotfish

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

Mar 22, 2019 18:49

Hi David -

Don't feel too bad about "missing something" because it's not entirely obvious.

That thing labelled "path_000" is actually an animation, composed of 299 separate .png files. On your PC, you'll find them tucked away in C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\templates\Creative Design Pack\Travel Pack 4\ExpressProject\Road Trip-Opening (unless you've placed them elsewhere).

As a side note, if you want to save that animation as a separate PiP Object/Video Overlay it's easy to do:

Drop the opening sequence of the Road Trip Express Project in your timelines.

Select the PiP object named "pip-01" in Track 2

Open it in PiP Designer

Click Save As and give it a name... e.g. "Yellow Path"

Now it appears in your custom PiPs

... and the animation files are copied to your MyPinPs folder in C:\Users\UserName\Documents\CyberLink\PowerDirector\17.0\... in a sub-folder.

Cheers - Tony
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