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Alternatively, is there a way to use a motion mask on the Mac version of this program? I know on Windows its an opinion in Color Director, which isn't available for Mac.

Hello,

Motion masks were added in the latest update for PowerDirector Mac 20.1:

https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/20/mac/enu/14_06_00_adding_motion_masks.html

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Quote Hi all. I recorded a video with a green screen in the background. When I go to use PIP to fade the green, it begins fading some of the speakers suit jacket as well. I have played with the color range and denoise bars to no avail. Even on 1 there are spots missing. I don't know why, the green screen is bright green, the jacket is black. Is there any way to fix this? I've never had this problem with other film editors before.

Alternatively, is there a way to use a motion mask on the Mac version of this program? I know on Windows its an opinion in Color Director, which isn't available for Mac.

Thanks for the assistance!

The chroma key feature in PowerDirector is in a word... terrible. I've posted this before (and almost got attacked in the replies lol) but you simply cannot effectively chroma key out a green screen with just 2 simple sliders which is all PowerDirector seems to think you'd need. This would only work if you have perfect lighting which even most studios can't accomplish. You're going to get weird colour and light bleed in PD and some green fringing on objects if using a green screen. There used to be a NewBlue plugin for PD that worked well but that's disappeared.

When I used PD, OBS was my go-to for screen screen recording. It is free and significantly more capable. Another fantastic option is Davinci Resolve which can also get you perfect results. Crucially both programs have a despill slider (among countless other controls) to dial in your green screen. You can render out your screen screen work there and import into PowerDirector if need be. I ended up just switching entirely to Resolve because this one feature brought me over and now I'm a happy Studio user. Cheers and sorry for the bad news, but despite what they tell you here you will not be able to achieve good results with PD with most green screen setups... there will also be light/colour bleed or fringing to deal with unless you somehow have a perfectly lit setup (ironic for a consumer level editing program isn't it?).