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That's right. Right in PDR, you can create & modify particle templates... as well as titles, video overlays, transitions & a whole lot more.
If you visit DirectorZone, you'll find a **mountain of templates made by other PDR users. These can be downloaded & installed & used in your PDR (if you want).
Since you're just starting out, I'd suggest looking at some more basic tutorials first (there are plenty), but here's one on the basics of using Particle Designer.
Cheers - Tony
** I'm not suggesting that the mountain of templates on DZ is necessarily all good! You need to search through some rubbish to find the gems.
You were using multiple green screen clips overlaid??? That might explain your comment "that made both the background image and track 4 visible in a strange mix."
I'm glad you're getting the hang of it a bit more.
I made that sparkle thing, but I probably made it by modifying someone else's particle. There are a few variations of it attached. If you double click the .dzl file, they'll install in PDR. Just delete any you don't want.
Assuming you haven't reversed the track order in Preferences, if you insert your greenscreen video in Track 5 then apply chroma key, anything that isn't masked by the background image/video will be visible.
e.g. GS vid - T5, Particle or Video Overlay - T4, BG vid - T3... the particle or PiP object will be visible (attached screenshot)
GS vid - T5, BG vid - T4, Particle or Video Overlay - T3... the particle or PiP object won't be visible.
Posting screenshots of your timeline/preview would help clarify your issue.
If you're using PDR365, you'll see that many of the modules (PiP Designer, Title Designer, Particle Designer) can be used in "Express" mode or Advanced. "Express" mode is just simplified, so there are less editing options. That won't help your needs.
Maybe you mean Video templates? These are templates with placeholders, so you can just insert your videos & photos into a pre-structured template. They're designed around different themes. In previous versions of PDR, these were labeled "Express Projects", so that may be what you're thinking of.
... or maybe you mean Magic Movie Wizard, again in themes, which selects parts of you videos and inserts them into video templates.
... or Theme Designer, which is sort of the same but you select which clips go where.
Have a look under Plugins and check out the options.
OK - I'll bite... even though your question isn't related to PowerDirector as far as I can tell.
Are you trying to upload an image or download it? You asked about downloading, then said 'I can't load a proprietary image file to a WP site", which sounds like uploading.
By WP site, do you mean Word Press? or something else?
If you try to be clearer, you might get a better answer.
What you've discovered is that the two functions you're using are completely unrelated.
In PiP Designer, checking or unchecking the Maintain Aspect Ratio option has NOTHING to do with what you do in Crop Image.
You can check or uncheck all you like in PiP Designer, but the options selected in Crop Image will override it. Maintain Aspect Ratio in PiP Designer applies to the image in PiP Designer. It's not a fixed/permanent setting fro that image.
As you've discovered, with Warry's advice, a colour preset can only be applied by dropping it on the video clip (not on the FX track). Other video FX can be applied the same way, or in the FX track.
When you drag a color preset to a video clip, it only affects that clip - not the whole video track.
I wouldn't say Ease in/out in PDR has reached perfection yet (!) but when using PiP Designer for panning & zooming, the wobble issue can be minimised by applying the same level of Ease in/out to both position & scale keyframes.
I guess you stitched the original .insv files using Insta360 Studio... or did you use something else?
When you imported the stitched video into PDR365, was it displayed in the media library with a 360 label? (see the attached screenshot, showing a stitched 360 video from Insta360 One R in PDR365)
When you dropped it inthe timeline, did PDR prompt you to create a 360 project?
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